KARACHI: Berating PTI Chairman Imran Khan for “unnecessary politics” on the appointment of the next army chief, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said that his politics has revolved around that appointment since the beginning.
He made the remarks while addressing a programme organised to celebrate 75 liver transplants by Dow University of Health Sciences at their Ojha campus.
The foreign minister said that none of our allies or anybody else should speak about such things in public meetings amid the prevailing economic situation.
He maintained that the coalition government was taking measures to steer the country out of economic challenges. Pakistan is now out of the default threat, he added.
Meanwhile, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb has slammed PTI chief Imran Khan and said that he had now given up the US conspiracy narrative after playing havoc with the state interests.
Reacting to Imran’s interview with the Financial Times, Marriyum said that the former PM could not be pardoned he had retracted from his narrative. He will be held accountable, she said.
Marriyum said that Imran had spread caos and lies throughout the country through his false narrative.
Earlier, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has lashed out at PTI chief Imran Khan for “rebutting” his ‘foreign conspiracy narrative’ wherein he had accused the US of conspiring his removal from power by backing the opposition’s no-trust move in April.
In an interview with Financial Times, PTI Chairman Imran Khan took a ‘U-turn’ on his charges that the