No shift in Pakistan's stance on Palestinian issue: Khokhar

09 Jun, 2006

Pakistan still adheres to its principled stand that Israel should withdraw from the occupied territory and the Palestinians should get their right, said former foreign secretary, Riaz Khokhar.
Talking to BBC he said, "I believe that the internal situation in Palestine is not a good development. We believe that there should be good mutual consultations." They should do everything from a united front, he added. To a question, he said no change had taken place in our principled position at any stage.
He said, "we still adhere to our same stand that they (Israel) should withdraw from the occupied territory and the Palestinians should get their due right." To another question he said, "We want to render every kind of help to Palestinians.

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