People have right to know if our nuclear assets are under pressure: Rabbani.

ISLAMABAD -- Former Senate chairman and senior PPP leader Senator Raza Rabbani said on Monday that the people of Pakistan have a right to know if the country's nuclear assets are under pressure.

Senator Rabbani added that the country also needs to know 'if our strategic relationship with China is under threat or we are being called up to play role in the region which will facilitate the military presence of an imperialist power'.

'These and other questions require a policy statement by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the floor of a joint sitting in the parliament', he added.

While talking about the desperately-needed deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the senator furthered that the parliament needs to be taken into confidence on the issue as well as the matter of reluctance of friendly countries, except China, to help Pakistan sans the global lender.

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