ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Defence Khawaja Muhammad Asif Sunday claimed that the PTI had sought apology to the US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu and the federal government had acquired all the record in this regard.
In a statement issued here, Asif said that the government had got entire record of a meeting of the PTI leader and apology submitted to the US government.
“The one who used to raise anti-America slogans is now seeking forgiveness. Imran Khan has sent a message that he has committed a blunder and the contacts must resume from where disconnected,” says the statement.
He said Imran Khan had sent a message through the US envoy that he wanted to repair the relationship with the US.
“Imran has been exposed and he is now seeking forgiveness from Donald Lu,” he claimed.
Inflation, load-shedding gifts of PTI’s faulty policies
Separately, the minister told media during his visit to newly-constructed Shahabpura flyover in Sialkot that people were suffering from inflation and load-shedding due to faulty policies of the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.
“We have inherited inflation, which is the result of wrong policies of the previous government,” he said while talking to the media during his visit to newly-constructed Shahabpura flyover here.
The federal minister said: “We are fully aware of inflation and the fact that oil, gas and coal prices are at all-time high, but we are determined that we will be able to overcome the crises.”
He said that election would be held in 2023 for which the PML-N would go to people and then the people would decide who should rule the country.
The federal minister said that national institutions supported Imran Khan’s government for four years in the hope that he would start delivering and serving masses, but he failed badly.
He said the PML-N had also respected the law and Constitution of the country.
Kh Asif said that the national institutions wanted to stay within their constitutional limits, but regrettably Imran Khan wanted to divide them. He said that even the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decisions, given in accordance with the Constitution, were not acceptable to him [Imran Khan]. He wanted to weaken the nuclear power Pakistan and its institutions. He said all doors of power were closing on Imran Khan one after the other.
About the flyover project, Kh Asif said that Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif would visit Sialkot soon and formally inaugurate the Shahabpura flyover project.
He said that the project was started by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government, and it was also completed by the PML-N. He said: “I am grateful to all departments concerned and local authorities for their efforts to complete the project.”
He said that the previous PTI government, in its almost four-year tenure, did not lay even a single brick in Sialkot district. However, due to special efforts of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz, the project had been completed now. He regretted that the project had been put on hold during the last four years.
The defence minister said that the project was very important for Sialkot and its residents. The flyover would significantly improve the traffic flow in Sialkot city, he added. He announced that an underpass would also be constructed from KFC stop to Kotli-Bahram Chowk for smooth flow of traffic in the city.
