In response to his predecessor Imran Khan's accusations against Washington, Shahbaz Sharif: Pakistan cannot bear the burden of hostility to the United States

Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that his country cannot bear the burden of hostility to the United States, and Sharif stressed in press statements in the capital, Islamabad, the need to improve relations between Islamabad and Washington.

Commenting on the accusations against the United States of overthrowing the government of his predecessor Imran Khan, Sharif said that the statement of the National Security Committee in this regard was clear and did not refer to any foreign plots.

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan had accused the United States of supporting the opposition to overthrow him and remove him from the premiership, due to his anti-US policy stances, which angered Washington, as he mentioned in several speeches before and after leaving his post.

Sharif - the younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is accused of corruption and residing in Britain - added that he intends to consider forming a judicial committee to investigate allegations of foreign plots related to the overthrow of Imran Khan's government.

On April 11, the Pakistani parliament elected Shahbaz Sharif as Prime Minister, after a vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Sharif considered that Khan's departure from the premiership represents an opportunity for a new beginning, and told parliament after Khan's overthrow, "a new dawn has begun, this alliance will rebuild Pakistan." Sharif is supposed to continue in office until October 2023, the date scheduled for the next elections.

It is noteworthy that Shahbaz Sharif, 70, a cancer survivor, entered politics in 1988 and served as the prime minister of Pakistan's most populous and politically important Punjab province.

Sharif is also facing charges of corruption and money laundering from the Pakistan National Accountability Office, and in 2019 the Anti-Corruption Authority confiscated a number of properties owned by Shahbaz and his son Hamza, and accused them of money laundering, and in the year 2020 he spent a period in prison before being released on bail.