ISLAMABAD: The coalition government and PTI are holding each other responsible over the postponement of the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman’ to Pakistan.
Saudi Crown Prince was expected to arrive in Pakistan around Nov 21, but last week Saudis deferred the visit without citing any reasons. Media reports, however, indicated that Crown Prince is attending G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, for two days, starting from Nov 15.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif claimed that MBS’ visit to Pakistan had been postponed due to the PTI’s long march which was heading towards Islamabad.
Through Twitter, Defence Minister said: “Imran Khan’s first sit-in seven years ago Chinese President Xi Jinping cancelled his visit to Pakistan and now the Saudi Crown Prince has postponed due to Nov 21 sit-in.”
“This person is working on an agenda against the country”.
عمران خان نے پہلے دھرنے پہ7 سال قبل چینی صدر کا دورہ کینسل کروایا تھااب21 نومبر والے دھرنے کے اعلان سےسعودی عرب کے ولیعہد اور وزیراعظم کا دورہ ملتوی.IK سواۓ اپنے مفادات کے علاوہ کوئ سوچ نہیں رکھتا.ملک و قوم کے مفادات کے کوئی معنی نہیں.یہ شخص ملک کیخلاف ایجنڈا پہ کام کر رہا ھے
— Khawaja M. Asif (@KhawajaMAsif) November 12, 2022
Meanwhile, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry strongly reacted to statement of Khawaja Asif and said the latter was just doing blame game.
Fawad said, “Khawaja Asif is the defence minister of Pakistan but morally he is so low as to feel no problem in telling a lie. Muhammad Bin Salman has postponed his visit to the whole of Asia, not just Pakistan.”
پہلی بات تو یہ ہے کہ یہ پاکستان کا اہم وزیر ہے اور اس کی اخلاقی حالت یہ ہے کہ انھیں جھوٹ بولتے ذرا بھی مسئلہ نہیں، محمد بن سلمان نے ایشیاء کا دورہ ملتوی کیا ہے صرف پاکستان کا دورہ ملتوی نہیں کیا، https://t.co/Y7UqE9V4GV
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) November 13, 2022
“Firstly, Khawaja Asif is the defence minister of Pakistan but morally he is so low as to feel no problem in telling a lie. Saudi Crown Prince has postponed his visits to the whole of Asia, not just Pakistan,” he said in a tweet.
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