ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will address the nation today evening (at 6pm) to inform the nation about the country’s economic situation and the global challenges in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry said on his Twitter: “Prime Minister Imran Khan will address the nation this evening, taking the nation into confidence on the economy and global challenges after the Russia-Ukraine conflict”.
Later, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in a media talk, shared the timing of the address, saying it would take place at 6pm.
“I think he (PM Imran) is going to make a very big announcement,” the foreign minister said while talking to the media in Jacobabad. He advised people to “be ready” since the prime minister would “talk openly from the heart”.
Qureshi said the premier realised the people’s pain and what they were going through. He also said the prime minister was about to visit Sindh soon.
Meanwhile, PML-N information secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb, in a series of tweets, opined that the prime minister’s address would be a time-wasting exercise, saying “how a person would take the nation into confidence when he has already lost the trust of people”.
he also questioned whether the prime minister would seek an apology for his “false promises to the nation and false accusations he leveled at his political opponents”.
