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Imran Khan calls for Donald Lu’s sacking for his ‘pure arrogance, bad manners’

Imran Khan calls for Donald Lu’s sacking for his ‘pure arrogance, bad manners’

 


ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Monday called for the dismissal of US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Donald Lu for “sheer arrogance and bad manners”.

Lu is the central figure in Imran’s claims about a US-backed regime change plot that toppled his government through a vote of no confidence.

The PTI chairman accuses Lu of threatening former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed, that a failure to remove Imran through a vote of no confidence would spell “consequences” for Pakistan and vice versa.

Imran also alleges that the threat was made even before the no confidence motion was tabled and then triggered a chain of events that resulted in local accomplices and conspirators joining the claimed plot.

The PTI president repeated his claims in an exclusive interview on CNN’s Connect the World program and lashed out at Lu while calling for his dismissal.

“Imagine telling the ambassador of a country of 220 million people that you are getting rid of your prime minister,” he added.

Asked why he failed to make his claims public earlier when he was so “specific” about their details, the PTI chairman said he placed the cipher containing the details of the meeting between Lu and the Ambassador of Pakistan in front of his cabinet which was then presented in a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC).

Host Becky Anderson brushed off the PTI President and asked if he had contacted the US President or Secretary of State about this. Imran did not provide a response, saying instead that the NSC meeting had decided to launch a demarche and that a protest had been registered with the United States in Pakistan and Washington.

Asked about Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s stance on Pakistan-US relations and whether Imran thought a good bilateral relationship was in Pakistan’s interest, he replied, “I had a very good relationship with the Trump administration. It wasn’t until the Biden administration came in that it coincided with what was happening in Afghanistan and for some reason I still don’t know they never contacted me.

Anderson said the United States had “refuted” the idea that it was involved in regime change in Pakistan and asked Imran if he “sincerely” believed his claim that there was a foreign plot to overthrow his government, the PTI Chairman replied that the US Embassy was calling and meeting with disgruntled PTI members even before the meeting between Lu and the Pakistani Ambassador to the US.

“What did they meet [US officials] for? They were the first to jump ship and they were the ones who then offered millions of dollars each to buy my other deputies who jumped ship later,” he said.

“Why would the US Embassy be interested in our party’s backbenchers?” Imran argued.

Anderson closed the interview with a question on whether Imran would run for prime minister again, to which Khan predicted that the PTI would become the “biggest party in the history of Pakistan”, saying that people were so angry and felt insulted that these criminals were imposed on us.

“There is anger in Pakistan… there is anti-Americanism.”

Referring to previous examples of alleged US-backed regime change in Iran and countries in South America, Imran said resentment against the United States grew when unpopular governments were brought to power.

“Unfortunately, yes, there is anti-Americanism right now in Pakistan,” he added.

During the interview, Anderson asked the former prime minister about his visit to Russia coinciding with the announcement of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, adding that “the optics have not been and n doesn’t look good, does it?”

“They didn’t, but let me explain. This visit was planned for a long time and all stakeholders in Pakistan were there. The military wanted Russian equipment, we wanted oil. There was a gas pipeline that had been under negotiation for six years before my government arrived…how would I have known that the day I landed in Moscow, the President [Vladimir] Putin would decide to go to Ukraine? Imran replied

Asked whether he regretted the trip, Imran said he would have regretted it had he known about the invasion in advance and opted to go ahead anyway.

“I don’t believe in military solutions. I opposed all military means to achieve political ends, but I wasn’t supposed to know [that Russia would announce war].”

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