Riaz Ahmed Malik
Group Editor Daily National Herald Tribune and Daily Al-akhbar
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Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Turkey are strategic partners and relations among them are based on mutual respect. After the establishment of the formal diplomatic relations, there was no looking back. Right from the beginning, the governments and the successive political leadership of the brotherly countries have been keen to further develop and consolidate the bonds of friendship and brotherhood. The countries share commonality of opinion on different regional and international issues and supported each other at the times of need. Turkey and Azerbaijan always supported Pakistan on just cause of Kashmir while Pakistan has a crystal-clear stance with regard to Armenian aggression against the innocent people of Azerbaijan.
Exchange of visits of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistani leaders as well as the other high-level delegations have played a pivotal role in cementing their socio-economic integration, greater regional cooperation and the last but not the least energy cooperation. The active participation of foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Turkey in the recently held OIC meeting in Islamabad vividly reflects close liaison among the three brotherly countries.
Turkey and Azerbaijan always supported Pakistan on its just cause of Kashmir while Pakistan has a crystal-clear stance with regard to Armenian aggression against the innocent people of Azerbaijan.
Meanwhile, after experiencing humiliating defeat at the hands of heroic forces of Azerbaijan under the visionary leadership of President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian leadership is desperate to find out a diplomatic comfort zone in terms of new allies and partnership. The most recent example of this pursuit is that the Armenian President Armen Vardani Sarkissian while speaking with the reporter of Arab News attempted to conceal his country’s shameful deeds against innocent people of Azerbaijan. He abortively ventured to create misgivings about the strategic trilateral partnership of Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Turkey and shrewdly came out with a wish to have diplomatic relations with Pakistan which in the eyes of the analysts is nothing but a clever move to cheat the world community.
It will be a matter of great interest for the worthy readers that on one hand Armenian President talks about having diplomatic ties with Pakistan while on the other its Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has openly been supporting Indian stance on Kashmir. Similarly on August 15 this year the Armenian acting Foreign Minister Armen Grigorian during an event dedicated to the 75th anniversary of India’s independence in Yerevan reiterated his country’s support for India over the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. He also expressed gratitude to New Delhi for its pro Armenian statements vis-a-vis Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.
It is worth mentioning that Pakistan is the only country in the world which does not recognize Armenia and has not at all any plan to establish diplomatic relations with it because it considers Armenia as an aggressor which illegally occupied the Azerbaijani territory for decades. And it was the result of 44 days patriotic war that Azerbaijan succeeded in liberating most of the territories encroached by the aggressor, Armenia.
In such a scenario how it is possible for Pakistan to build diplomatic relations with a country which is an open supporter of Indian illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir and which is also responsible for the sufferings of millions of innocent Azerbaijanis.
It is, Armenia which completely destroyed 1200 historical & architectural monuments , looted 27 museums , illegal exported 100000 valuable items , demolished 152 religious monuments , ruined 62 mosques , burnt 4,600,000 books, devastated libraries/ Holy Quran and rare Islamic manuscripts 927 in the illegally occupied areas of Azerbaijan. Thus Armenia “the mosque destroyer” cannot be a friend of any Muslim country.
After suffering humiliating defeat at the hands of heroic forces of Azerbaijan,
Armenian leadership is desperate to find out a diplomatic comfort zone in terms of new allies and partnership
It is noteworthy, that Azerbaijan army is known as a victorious army , that has inflicted a shameful defeat to the enemy, Armenia in the battlefield, expelled it from its lands, raised national flag in all the liberated areas and restored historical justice and national pride.
As far as Pakistan is concerned, it does not recognize Armenia because of its enmity with Azerbaijan . In this connection, time and again Pakistan has demonstrated solidarity with the government and people of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It has also been condemning the occupation of Azerbaijani territories by Armenia and the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces in the illegally occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
It will be significant to mention here that Azerbaijan is all set to file a law suit against Armenia on several issues, mainly on damage to ecology and environment in order to bring the aggressor to justice.
