Pakistan has other ‘options’, PM Imran Khan’s adviser tells U.S.

NSA expresses displeasure as President Biden ‘hasn’t spoken to the country’s leadership’

Upset over U.S. President Joe Biden’s reluctance to telephonically contact Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf has said that Islamabad has other “options” if the American leader continues to ignore the country’s leadership. “The President of the United States hasn’t spoken to the Prime Minister of such an important country who the U.S. itself says is make-or-break in some cases, in some ways, in Afghanistan — we struggle to understand the signal, right?” Mr. Yusuf said in an interview with the Financial Times of London, according to the Dawn newspaper here. “We’ve been told every time that... (the phone call) will happen, it’s technical reasons or whatever. But frankly, people don’t believe it,” he said. “If a phone call is a concession, if a security relationship is a concession, Pakistan has options,” he added, refusing to elaborate.