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Pakistan deserves appreciation for fighting against terrorism, not accusations: Ahsan Iqbal

January 17, 2018

Muscat , Jan 17 (INP) Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has called US President Donald Trump’s remarks on terrorism as unfair. Trump had accused Pakistan of giving safe havens to terrorists. Iqbal who is currently visiting Oman, told Muscat Daily that Pakistan has made innumerable sacrifices in its fight against terrorism and for the peace and stability in the region. “We have lost close to 70,000 people and the cost to our economy has been more than US$12bn. “Therefore no other country can tell Pakistan we have been harbouring terrorists because we are fighting terrorists and we have successfully cleaned our country of these elements in the last four years through military and security operations........................... INP/AH