{"id":8351,"date":"2022-05-23T16:17:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2022-05-23T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:17:18","slug":"imran-khan-calls-for-us-diplomat-donald-lu-to-be-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/imran-khan-calls-for-us-diplomat-donald-lu-to-be-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan calls for US Diplomat Donald Lu to be dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu should be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CNN, Imran Khan said that there was a lot of interference in Pakistan\u2019s internal affairs and the visit to Russia was planned long ago in consultation with all stakeholders but on the same day, a no-confidence motion was filed against him in Parliament. Millions of dollars were spent to buy other members of Parliament, Khan added.<\/p>\n<p>The former PM also asked that\u00a0 why the US embassy officials were meeting PTI\u2019s dissident MNAs, and why the US had regime change in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of Cipher was raised in the National Security Committee meeting in which all three service chiefs were also present, Imran added.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a dig at current PM, Imran said that 60% of Shahbaz Sharif\u2019s cabinet is on bail, he cannot predict the outcome of the next elections but his party is Pakistan\u00a0s largest party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not believe in a military solution to any of the issues. We have had excellent relations with the Trump administration, and bilateral relations have changed since Biden came to power,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In an exclusive interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImranKhanPTI<\/a> tells me a top US diplomat needs to resign for his role in what he claims was an American-backed plot to remove him from office. More on that and his future political plans here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ZU5coAq5l\">pic.twitter.com\/8ZU5coAq5l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Becky Anderson (@BeckyCNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeckyCNN\/status\/1528759429067427840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/imran-announced-long-march-on-may-25-to-sabotage-govt-imf-talks-blames-marriyum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imran announced long march on May 25 to sabotage govt-IMF talks, blames Marriyum<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu should be sacked. In an interview with CNN, Imran Khan said that there was a lot of interference in Pakistan\u2019s internal affairs and the visit to Russia was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[5673,103,194],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaaf","tag-imran-khan","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}