1 week Ago By News Desk
The Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee (PAKPAC), an organisation registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the United States founded in 1989, has endorsed Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump in the 2024 US Presidential election. The organisation’s official X page posted a detailed statement with the caption: “After extensive meetings with the Trump & Harris campaigns, we believe the former President is the candidate who will improve US-Pak relations and promote true democracy in Pak.” In the detailed statement, it was written, “While we certainly do not agree with the former President on every issue, after extensive meetings with his campaign and with the Harris campaign, we believe the former President is the candidate who will improve US-Pakistan relations, secure the release of all wrongfully imprisoned political prisoners in Pakistan and work towards reversal of Pakistan’s dangerous democratic backsliding.
” The PAKPAC also emphasised that during former President Donald Trump’s presidency, relations between the two countries were ‘better’ as his administration was directly engaged in talks with Pakistani ministers. It also said that those efforts remained absent under the Biden/Harris administration. “In contrast, the Biden/Harris administration has not demonstrated the same commitment to bilateral relations.
Under President Biden, the Pakistani government was pushed into a legislative coup against the popular and democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, and the administration has nothing done nothing to secure the release of former Prime Minister and other political prisoners,” said the statement. The PAKPAC also exhibited fears with the Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, writing, “We fear these policies would persist under a Harris presidency, further straining relations between our two nations.” It should be highlighted that PACPAC is the organisation that has extensively lobbied for former Prime Minister Imran Khan; moreover, it also lobbied for the US Congress legislation in June that called for a “full and independent investigation” of Pakistan’s election and “condemns attempts to suppress the people of Pakistan’s participation in their democracy” through “harassment, intimidation, violence, arbitrary detention.
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