During a press conference on Sunday, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan named the US official who reportedly threatened the PTI government, risking Pakistan-USA relations.
He made the announcement during a meeting with party MPs following a televised address in which he thanked the public for “foiling the extensive plot” and revealed that he had asked President Alvi to disband the national assembly.
According to him, Donald Lu, a US State Department employee, is driving an “international plot” against the PTI administration since PTI Government has an independent foreign policy of its own.
On March 27, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan stated that a foreign force had tried to overthrow his administration by interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
While he did not mention the nation or official by the name, he did so in subsequent contacts with lawmakers and reporters afterwards.
Profile of Donald Lu
For the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Donald Lu has been serving from September 15, 2021. For the past two years, Assistant Secretary Lu served as US Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as Ambassador to Albania.
Lu was the Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response at the Department of State during the West African Ebola epidemic before being assigned to Albania.
An American Foreign Service Officer, Lu has served the United States for over 30 years. Azerbaijan’s Chargé d’affaires and DCM from 2007 to2009, and Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Chief of Mission from 2010 to 2013. (2003-2006).
Before joining the State Department, he served as Deputy Director in the Office of Central Asian and South Caucasus Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs (2001-2003), as a Special Assistant to the Ambassador for the Newly Independent States (2000-2001), and as a Consular officer at the Georgian Consulate in Tbilisi (1994-1996) and a Political Officer in P.O. Box 97, Washington, D.C. (1992-1994).
When he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, West Africa, he worked to rehabilitate hand-dug water wells and teach health education and the construction of latrines.
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