Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmed on Thursday categorically denied the presence of any United States’ military base in Pakistan.
He termed the speculations regarding presence of any US military base in Pakistan as “baseless and irresponsible”.
“There is no US military or air base in Pakistan; nor was any such proposal envisaged. Any speculation on this account is baseless and irresponsible and should be avoided,” Asim Iftikhar Ahmed said.
The spokesperson further clarified that Pakistan and the United States have a framework of cooperation in terms of Air Lines of Communication (ALOC) and Ground Lines of Communication (GLOC) in place since 2001. “No new agreement has been made in this regard.”
Earlier in June this year, Prime Minister Imran Khan had categorically ruled out the possibility of allowing the US to operate a military base or conduct drone operations inside Afghanistan using Pakistan’s soil.
“Absolutely not,” the prime minister had told “Axios on HBO” in a wide-ranging interview. “There is no way we are going to allow any bases […] any sort of action from Pakistani territory into Afghanistan. Absolutely not.”
