Acknowledging that there was a “significant change” in its policy to act against terror groups without discrimination, Pakistan has said it hopes the US would now consider it an “ally from heaven” and not from hell, as described in a recent book by an ex-CIA chief.
“After my Government came in 2013 there has been a significant change in our policy. We are now moving against all terrorists without any discrimination. And I hope that we would qualify to be an ally (of US) from heaven,” Sartaj Aziz, the Foreign Affairs Advisor to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told a Washington audience. Aziz’s remarks during his interaction at the Council on Foreign Relations came in response to a question in which his attention was drawn to a recently-released book written by a former CIA chief in which Pakistan was described as “an ally from the hell”.