officials call an adult as a precaution. iran security forces will clear the streets of major cities within the next 24 hours and a renewed effort to fight the spread of the virus state media say shop streets and roads will be emptied iran is one of the country's most affected by the pandemic with the death toll to 514 and more than 11000 infections. and turkey and russia have agreed on the details of a cease fire in syria's in the bridge and the plan was finalized up to 4 days of talks and korea under the agreement turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols along the m 4 highway linking syria's east and west that starts from sunday those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after talked about his era shuff model confessions and swashed. al jazeera. every.

year. but you're going to harm me it's been over a year since the former cricketer turned politician imran khan became pakistan's prime minister. during his campaign mr cohn promised to turn around the country's economy but the fight to ease inflation has not been an easy one the pakistani rupee lost 35 percent of its value drink on its 1st year in office and despite some encouraging news from the international monetary fund many are still struggling as a result of the weak economy pakistan's location brings a lot of opportunity as well as challenges a lot of hope has been put on its agreement with china to set up an economic corridor but it's not clear if the ambitious project will be beneficial to both sides. relations with the other big neighbor india have been strained in recently.

after new delhi revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir. there's also been tension of india's controversial citizenship law that many say discriminates against muslims and islam about will also be looking to see how the recently signed deal between the us and the afghan taliban will impact on its policies. to put these questions to its top diplomat pakistan's foreign minister sharon mahmood qureshi talks to al jazeera. mr cressy welcome to talk to al-jazeera is pakistan now in the driving seat when it comes to the outside world relationship with the taliban. but pakistan has played the role of a facilitator. as you ignore suffered a lot because of the situation in the region you've been a huge what you need is the because you did political theater and yet the lad that

the world has finally can words to that point of view i think the world should have listened to us earlier and done what it's doing today. sit across the table and find a solution find a political solution you happy that is happening and we have honestly and with good faith. contributed to that movement it looks increasingly examining what he's been saying as if the us secretary of state might pompei o is beginning to really trust trust the taliban do you trust the taliban i think that. they are very savvy and they assured. and they're. not just good fighters they are tough negotiators.

and. even before the talks began the reality was and let's recognize the reality that despite the world's attention and you know the financial contributions taliban will still controlling a good 4045 percent of the of on the street then reality you know and you have to deal with that reality i hope. want to read they will honor that agreement and one expects them to both sides you know the u.s. and the taleban on are what they are citing there was however an op-ed recently in the new york times from the her carney network it raised eyebrows in the state department in washington they take their cue it is claimed from your government. the independent that dick. no cues from no one they have independent

minds and they have their own. vision of what they want. to look like. all of you have said that listen this cannot go on forever you cannot keep fighting for ever they've also fought and they've also have lost many people also fatigued so there is a new reality that a store in every war has come to an end the world has been in conflicts in the past even the world wars can go on forever. ultimately they would assume from there was a negotiated settlement and that i think they have realized that they have realized they know their strengths and they also realize that a homicide is not the same place is to print the last so many years in the last 120

years. things have changed you know there is there have been 3 elections over there they have been parliamentary elections over there have been presidential elections over there they have you have seen a new empowered class over there so these new realities they also have to compromise for it does that mean that you are quite happy for the taliban to move from being quote terrorists to being politicians because there will come a point surely during this process where they will have real political power but they won't have stood for political office at that point and that might be a template that the taliban in pakistan would like to see happen for them as well the point is been telling them that they must come into the bean stream. give up the gun and. come into the bean stream and if you have

a point for you which to people on a song by dust it and the best way of testing that is through the ballot box your critics might say this is really about india and about pakistan's relationship with india because down the line if you have traction with the taliban in pakistan in a positive sense as far as they're concerned you therefore by definition have traction with the taliban in afghanistan if you then as a country have a footprint in kabul you have to make sure that afghanistan or you would make sure that afghanistan doesn't play nice nice sea with the indians and they share a border what we want is peace and stability you know one of song because we feel if this peace and stability the one assad pakistan stands to gain as i said earlier on that we've suffered a lot in human and in economic terms then there are opportunities that have been

lost we feel that today if this peace back is nonstandard again. if there is reconstruction and harness thought we got to be. we have a huge potential of bilateral trade for the one as long and with. peace and stability in afghanistan we get access into the central issue republics we are an energy deficient country we can have the gas pipeline coming down to pakistan and fulfilling our requirements we can have the $1000.00 electricity coming into pakistan that we need food electricity affordable gas a new area opens up to us you know regional connectivity and then with the development of the go other port. land locked countries of central asia

harnessed on get an opportunity of promoting economic activity in their countries but when you talk about that port that's interesting you mention that china is building roads for you as well china is building the port but it's so much more than a poor your critics might say it's actually a chinese foothold in pakistan china and pakistan have a long bested relationship they have stood with pakistan to pick and pin. what we are trying to do now is we are trying to as they have economically developed and have now the technology and the cash we are trying to build a new economic partnership with china you know costs have gone up in china and we feel a lot of the labor intensive industry can be relocated into pakistan. when the world moved away this stepped in to invest in pakistan and we have we have we

are happy about it we feel that it's a ring win situation for both sides of the chinese government but you can't in effect do what you need to do because from a fiscal point of view or economy is in a mess you need somebody who's money be it the chinese or the saudis or indeed the only 2 seconds please you've got money from the i.m.f. but everyone says the same thing imran khan waited too long for some reason the only mr carr knows he waited too long to go to the i.m.f. and say yes i need some financial help. why did we take time because the gap the resource gap was huge and the bigger the gap the tougher the conditionalities of i.m.f. would have been so we did go to friendly countries and we had grateful to friendly countries like saudi arabia like you we and cutter who stood by us who've helped us

now via negotiated a new. stabilization program with the i.m.f. they've just done their 2nd view they've gone back comfortable we are fulfilling the conditions that we had agreed upon it's a tough it's a tough stabilization program we had to increase prices of electricity of gas and we are facing the political brunt of that but we feel that we have to do the right things we cannot let our economic indicators go haywire when we came into office all our economic indicators were pointing in the wrong direction but when you say when we came into office since imran khan came into office since you came into office according to the i.m.f. inflation is now to 10 year high and you're borrowing more money to clear all debts that is unsustainable not least because you know imran khan his before the election

imran khan said i will get rid of taxation corruption tax corruption what's the point in talking even about that as an entree to asked here and a half the people who are filing the tax returns has more than doubled no previous government could do that one number 2 the exchange rate was artificially pegged it was not linked to the market. we've done realistic think we have made it more market linked that is why the dollar has gone up and the rupee has gone down but it's also helping exports and exports we inherited a historic trade deficit now exports have started picking up because of this adjustment inflation is high i absolutely agree with you it's high but we're trying to fix it we're trying to decelerate in order to stabilize and once be a stabilizing then we would want to and as the inflation rate comes. down

we want to revisit our interest rates and once the interest rates go down they will have an impact on on private sector boring and an impact on. inflation where do you see the relationship with saudi arabia going because imran khan was in effect your government was in effect rebuffed because over the issue of kashmir he reached out to the saudis with a view to getting people to talk about kashmir and that relationship between islamabad and new delhi has been tinderbox dangerously dry for a generation now. well. what we've been doing is we've been talking to the seat and we feel the atrocities that have been committed in the indian occupied german kashmir need their attention he or she has been speaking about this issue

you know there's a history of resolutions there's a record so it's starting it's time to speak up and that is why we are asking. the friends and other friends in the omar to speak up because this is the just cause speak up for the voiceless and today the media will not be allowed to give an independent parliament is what allowed the chair of the all parties parliamentary committee on kashmir in the house of commons was deported from delhi independent people independent observers are not allowed in sort human rights violations have touched in new level and that is why it is being discussed in the us congress it's being discussed in the european parliament it's being discussed in the house of commons and it's been discussed in the human rights council in geneva but that's not quite to answer my question so my question was to do but the relationship between imran khan and saudi arabia primarily as a dynamic because of the relationship between pakistan and india and can i

suggest to you then i am going to answer that. i think pakistan today is and in a unique position baucus is in a unique position because we have excellent relations almost in countries saudi arabia as one of them you always another one and cut their excellent relations there expressing an interest in investment pakistan in peddling pakistan. develop its tourism sector we are happy allowing more pakistanis into got that we can contribute you know there's going to be a world cup here or maybe a is basically getting rid of pakistani doctors because the saudi authorities have stopped recognizing the certificate and the pakistani doctors have it's on is not if you have good relations with all the main muslim countries what can you do what can you bring to the table to do with the relationship that's focused in on the

g.c.c. blockade driven by the of cattle we would want. to help. face the bucket right what pakistan can do is willing to do is to bridge the gap to do to a tell brothers and friends listen sit and talk and we can if we can help will be more than happy to assist and help because be freed the middle east and the gulf has seen enough of conflict and unity and coherence is important to achieve what they want to achieve peace stability what about proliferation when people think about the relationship between pakistan and india they think about danger they think about as i said before a tinderbox situation they think about nuclear weapons they think about anger i mean granted imran khan since he got the top job has been more has been sending out

signals of being more conciliatory particularly towards the red remoting. when we came into office what was the 1st signal be sent you take one step towards peace we will take 2. huda buffed us it's the politics of india it's the elections that is you know they are showing this reluctance but not realize it's not just politics it's the new hindu twa philosophy that has overtaken delhi and they are being governed by a group of people who believe in you know in superman c you know and reassure them and that approach and that is why they have taken the steps that they have taken on the 5th of august which have been rejected wanted by pakistan they have been rejected by all shades of opinion right so.

what we are telling the world listen things are getting from bad to worse to nuclear armed states cannot go into a conflict it will be source and it's not just our tiber it will have a global impact so you cannot shove things under the carpet this is an internationally recognized dispute you cannot look the other way because of political expediency and the commercial interest and the big indian market find you have a right to trade with them you have a right because investment but you cannot now ditty and that is what the sector general has just said he announced the measures were announced on the 5th of august on the 8th of august he pronounced listen this is a bit of bread if you make one overtures to india they respond positively then you make 2 steps in the right direction good will is a diminishing resource though there must come

a point when you think ok mr mr modi has got his b.g.p. agenda that's his critics critics would say that's partly why he's being criticized just now over this new citizenship legislation is causing trouble on the streets of what's your official stance say on the citizenship law. it is discriminate. and this has made the muslim 200000000 muslims in india in secure and the fair of being stay close you know it close to 2000000 people in our slum are more or less stateless because of the new and see approach that the indians have adopted and not just post hymns minorities like sikhs like put it like jan's even lower cost hindus like it's insecurity and what you saw in the law and what you are seeing in the you know in delhi today it's like almost like a genocide and the world. many in the world keeping quiet over it people are

also looking in on your relationship with china to do with a very current issue why is it you've left pakistanis in china with the coronavirus doing what it's doing people are saying you should have taken those people back to pakistan but instead for some reason you've decided to leave them where they are. one. we were following the instructions of w h o n international organization people following the instructions of the and i h which is you know i mean it's a technical issue it's a health issue we have to go international standards and thirdly when we calculated we came to the conclusion that what the chinese was offering. was giving them the treatment that is required. and they were committed

to a promise to hon the president of china president xi jinping that they will be treated like our own because of the special relationship we had with pakistan if you feel they're being looked after there we are doing whatever we gather they made a special concession to for our diplomats were allowed into war they have gone and engage students with them reassured dome and pakistan is also expressing solidarity with china because china has taken on this challenge in a very very brave manner and we wish them success and i'm sure they will succeed in defeating or not virus we have to be called our of you know traffic between 2 and 4 from iran and pakistan you know the border has been closed why to put people to protect our people to pick protect our children pakistan and families

in pakistan could it be that you are stretching yourself as a government so thin in so many different areas and when it comes to the next election people vote with their pocketbooks they vote on the bread and butter issues when it comes to being reelected. few if any prime ministers or presidents get reelected on the state of the economy as it stands at the moment in pakistan are you confident that the next time you have to go to the people the people will say yes that's the government for us one more time the people of pakistan are not fools they have seen the economic condition that we inherited they knew the amount of corruption the amount of money siphoned off through money laundering the way people pocket money in switzerland and back down from abroad and

building properties of you know outside the country that's why did it the established parties and that is why they gave this new party a chance because this credibility here and they also realize that the decision that we are taking which are difficult once they're hurting people the ordinary people said paul says there was no choice left he had to dig there's been 4 decisions in the hope that the economy where we are at the end of the term is more secure you've been around the block as foreign minister more than once or twice at some point in the future will be maybe talking about a potential prime minister. but we have total confidence in what iran khan is doing is doing a great job he's the chairman of my party and i am is dumba to his wife kept his wife's chairman and i'm happy what i'm doing i'll take that as a yes that mr cressy thank you so much for talking to voters here we do appreciate

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