Islamabad, Pakistan:
Pakistan People's Party today condemned the US National Security Agency's snooping over it as totally unacceptable and asked the government to take up the issue at the diplomatic level.
According to media reports the declassified documents show that Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was under the scanner of the US secret agency.
PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar condemned it and called upon the government to take up the issue at the diplomatic level and seek guarantees that such grave violations of international law do not take place in the future.
"The revelation of spying on a major political party of Pakistan is a grave, unwarranted and totally unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country and is condemned," the spokesperson said.
Babar said that PPP is proud of its record of always acting in supreme national interest, it owes no explanation to any foreign agency and no other country, regardless of its might and power, has any right to spy on it.
"Such insensitive operations and unacceptable interference in the affairs of a political party of a sovereign country will serve no purpose except to increase resentment and distrust," he said.
He said that those who have violated the norms of responsible behavior by spying on the political institutions of a sovereign country owe an apology.
PPP is the main opposition party and is considered as major democratic force in Pakistan.