PM: Pakistan 'does not support military strikes on Iran'

dailytimes: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has stressed that Pakistan does not support military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and all disputes should be resolved through talks.

"We have friendly relations and are in constant touch with each other on regional issues, including that of Iran's nuclear capabilities," Aziz said at a press conference here on Saturday. He hoped the France, Britain and Germany's offer of economic incentives to Iran in exchange for abandoning uranium enrichment would succeed.

The prime minister said most seminaries in Pakistan were doing a good job and the government wanted to bring them into the mainstream by registering them, but seminaries teaching sectarianism and hatred would not be tolerated.

"There is this misconception that seminaries are brainwashing students and preparing them for suicide missions. Seminaries are working well and it is wrong to say that they are all preaching violence," Aziz said. Read more