ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that he met US Ambassador Donald Bloom and other senior officials, focusing on the deteriorating human rights situation in Pakistan. .
On Twitter, the former information minister said: “Good meeting with US Ambassador and senior officials. Deteriorating human rights situation in Pakistan was a major focus of discussion.”
The PTI leader said he briefed US officials on the party’s concerns about the “misuse of anti-terrorism and blasphemy laws by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)-led government against political opponents”. Informed?
The political situation and PTI position on various issues came under discussion. Such meetings are part of mutual desire to have relationship based on equality and well being of people.
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) February 16, 2023
Fawad wrote that the political situation and PTI’s stand on various issues were discussed in the meeting. He added that such meetings are part of mutual desire for relations based on equality and people-to-people good.
PTI leader’s meeting with US diplomats comes after PTI chairman Imran Khan took a U-turn on his long-standing stance of blaming the US for the government change plot in April last year and the fall of his government. Happened after
For a long time, Khan – who was shown the door by a no-confidence motion in April last year – had been claiming that the US supported the regime change because it wanted to keep military bases in Pakistan and make the country once Then wants to use it for meeting. Its foreign policy objectives in the region and beyond.
The PTI chief, in his public rallies, media interactions and other occasions, has been alleging that the US and its Assistant Foreign Minister Donald Lowe are behind the downfall of his government and has even threatened the country. He also demanded the dismissal of the American diplomat for making threats.
But to the surprise of many, in an interview with Voice of America, he took a step back and claimed that former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa’s Prime Minister Shehbaz He had close relations with Sharif and he conspired and led to the change of government.
Even before this interview, PTI leadership has been talking to American diplomats.
