Shehbaz Sharif slams Imran Khan for endangering Pakistan’s global interests

INTERNATIONAL DESK: Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif lambasted Prime Minister Imran Kha him for endangering Pakistan’s global interests.

Shehbaz Sharif said in a tweet on Friday that he was “shocked by the way Imran Khan has endangered the interests of the country”.

He also said that “among other things, the damage to our foreign policy is incalculable.” In an address to the nation Thursday, Imran Khan made allegations about Washington’s role in an alleged “foreign conspiracy” to oust him from power. Khan had also criticized the United States for “not retaliating” for Pakistan’s contribution to the “war on terror” in Afghanistan.

People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Wednesday that Imran Khan “has now lost a majority” in the National Assembly and that opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif will soon become the country’s prime minister.

PPP chairman said Shehbaz Sharif has challenged the Pakistani prime minister to resign from office. “He (Imran Khan) has no other choice left. He can resign or be fired for lack of confidence,” Bilawal Bhutto said.

Earlier on Tuesday, the ruling PTI had another shock when the MQM-P, an ally of the government, decided to side with the opposition and support it in the motion of no confidence against Imran Khan. the 172 necessary to obtain a majority. Relations between the United States and Pakistan have been strained since the United States withdrew from Afghanistan last summer.

The growing alignment between China and Pakistan also casts a shadow over US policy towards Pakistan. Khan had also said that many Pakistanis have lost their lives in the fight against terrorism, but the United States has never thanked them.

“In fact, the United States blamed them for their failure in Afghanistan,” Khan said. Meanwhile, Murtaza Ali Shah, a reporter for GEO News and The News International, mocked Imran Khan’s address to the nation. He said Khan’s speech was about “I, Me, Myself”, adding that Khan mentioned himself 213 times during a 45-minute speech.

“Imran Khan spoke about ‘me, me, myself, Imran Khan’ 213 times in a 45-minute speech: it’s all about me,” Shah tweeted.

Imran had spoken of entering politics in the 1990s after a successful career in cricket. I entered politics because I came to the conclusion that Pakistan can never be the country that Allama Iqbal dreamed of and Quaid-e-Azam fought for, even in poor health,” he said. declared.(ANI)