{"id":11911,"date":"2024-12-21T22:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/pakistan-dismisses-us-officials-warning-over-missile-program-as-unfounded\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T22:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:02:46","slug":"pakistan-dismisses-us-officials-warning-over-missile-program-as-unfounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/pakistan-dismisses-us-officials-warning-over-missile-program-as-unfounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan dismisses US official's warning over missile program as unfounded"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday dismissed as unfounded and “devoid of rationality” assertions by a senior US official that its missile program could eventually pose a threat to the United States, Reuters reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, US Deputy National Security Adviser\u00a0Jon Finer\u00a0said Pakistan’s development of long-range ballistic missiles made it an “emerging threat”.<\/p>\n

Finer’s comments, which came a day after Washington announced a new round of\u00a0sanctions\u00a0related to the ballistic missile program, underscored the deterioration in once-close ties between Washington and<\/p>\n

Islamabad since the 2021 US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Addressing Finer’s remarks, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said the perception of an alleged threat was “unfortunate”.<\/p>\n

“These allegations are unfounded, devoid of rationality and sense of history,” the ministry added in a statement.<\/p>\n

The ministry said its strategic capabilities were solely for defending its sovereignty and maintaining regional stability, and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country.<\/p>\n

It also highlighted Pakistan’s long history of cooperation with the US, particularly in counter-terrorism efforts, and reiterated its commitment to engaging constructively on all issues, including regional security and stability.
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Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday dismissed as unfounded and “devoid of rationality” assertions by a senior US official that its missile program could eventually pose a threat to the United States, Reuters reported.\u00a0 Earlier this week, US Deputy National Security Adviser\u00a0Jon Finer\u00a0said Pakistan’s development of long-range ballistic missiles made it an “emerging threat”. Finer’s comments, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,1879,130,34],"class_list":["post-11911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international","tag-missile-capability","tag-pakistan","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}