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Liaquat Ali Khan did not write or instruct the then ambassador to send any secret memorandum to the Americans. He was pretty open about it. During his first trip to the United States in 1950, he met the press at the National Press Club in the American capital. A reporter asked how large a standing army Pakistan wanted. Liaquat Ali Khan’s reply was quite simple to the inquisitive American reporter and here is a direct quote from the prime minister’s answer: “If your country will guarantee our territorial integrity, I will not keep any army at all.” Ayub Khan allowed the Americans to use Pakistani territory to fly U2 spy planes over the Soviet Union. Pakistanis came to know about these covert operations when the Soviets downed an American plane and captured its pilot and put him on television screens for the world to see. Pakistanis, all along, were told that the Americans were using the base outside Peshawar for weather-monitoring purposes. REFERENCE: Memogate and historyFrom the Newspaper | Opinion | By Haider Nizamani November 27, 2011 http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/27/memogate-and-history.html
HARIPUR: PML-N president Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that he was willing to help the government and army stop secret agreements with the US, Geo News reported. Speaking during a news conference Sharif said that he did not raise a finger at anyone in the Supreme Court nor did he call anyone a traitor. "If the Parliament was performing its duties, then I would not have needed to approach the Supreme Court," Sharif said. The PML-N president further said that the present government was continuing with the policies of the Musharraf era. Sharif added that no party could be revolutionary if it was associated with the establishment. REFERENCE: Willing to help government and army stop secret agreements with US: Nawaz http://www.thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=27798&title=Willing-to-help-government-and-army-stop-secret-agreements-with-US:-Nawaz-
Liaquat Ali Khan did not write or instruct the then ambassador to send any secret memorandum to the Americans. He was pretty open about it. During his first trip to the United States in 1950, he met the press at the National Press Club in the American capital. A reporter asked how large a standing army Pakistan wanted. Liaquat Ali Khan’s reply was quite simple to the inquisitive American reporter and here is a direct quote from the prime minister’s answer: “If your country will guarantee our territorial integrity, I will not keep any army at all.” Ayub Khan allowed the Americans to use Pakistani territory to fly U2 spy planes over the Soviet Union. Pakistanis came to know about these covert operations when the Soviets downed an American plane and captured its pilot and put him on television screens for the world to see. Pakistanis, all along, were told that the Americans were using the base outside Peshawar for weather-monitoring purposes. REFERENCE: Memogate and historyFrom the Newspaper | Opinion | By Haider Nizamani November 27, 2011 http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/27/memogate-and-history.html
HARIPUR: PML-N president Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that he was willing to help the government and army stop secret agreements with the US, Geo News reported. Speaking during a news conference Sharif said that he did not raise a finger at anyone in the Supreme Court nor did he call anyone a traitor. "If the Parliament was performing its duties, then I would not have needed to approach the Supreme Court," Sharif said. The PML-N president further said that the present government was continuing with the policies of the Musharraf era. Sharif added that no party could be revolutionary if it was associated with the establishment. REFERENCE: Willing to help government and army stop secret agreements with US: Nawaz http://www.thenews.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=27798&title=Willing-to-help-government-and-army-stop-secret-agreements-with-US:-Nawaz-
