Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan has created a stir over comments he made about US operations in Afghanistan and China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims.

In an interview with Axios HBO, Imran Khan categorically stated that he would not allow the US to use Pakistan as a base for its Afghan operations.
He also asked why the world was fixated on Xinjiang while ignoring what India was doing in Kashmir.

The comments have generated debate on Indian and Pakistani social media.

The interview with Khan was aired early Monday morning and immediately started gaining traction as people began discussing his comments.

Axios had already released his comments about the US and Afghanistan ahead of the interview's broadcast.

Khan told the interviewer, Jonathan Swan, that he would "absolutely not" allow the US to have the CIA in Pakistan to conduct cross border counter-terrorism missions against al-Qaeda, the Islamic State group, and the Taliban.

Pakistan's cooperation is seen as critical to US President Joe Biden's plans to completely withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by September.

Source: BBC

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