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Pakistan PM Imran Khan facing penalties for being ‘disobedient’ to Washington, says Russia

Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Crew |Source: PTI |Updated: Apr 05, 2022, 06: 37 PM IST

Russia has criticised the US for making “one other strive of shameless interference” into the within affairs of Pakistan and asserted that Prime Minister Imran Khan used to be paying the pricetag for being ‘disobedient’ to Washington and being punished for visiting Russia in February this year. Khan met Russian President Vladimir Putin within the Kremlin on February 24, the day the Russian chief had ordered a ‘particular protection force operation’ in opposition to Ukraine.

In doing so, he had also change into the first Pakistani premier to visit Russia in 23 years after outdated premier Nawaz Sharif travelled to Moscow in 1999. On Monday, Russia’s International Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated no topic rigidity from the US to break his visit to Moscow, Khan went forward alongside with his commute.

“Straight away after the announcement of the working visit of Imran Khan to Moscow on February 23-24 this year, the Americans and their Western pals began to exert frightful rigidity on the Prime Minister, demanding an ultimatum to break the commute,” Zakharova stated in a commentary on the controversy over Khan’s allegation that the US used to be looking out to enact a regime switch in Islamabad.

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“Here’s one other strive of shameless interference by the US within the within affairs of an impartial impart for its own selfish functions. The above facts eloquently testify to this,” Zakharova stated. The US-led West has imposed a series of crippling sanctions on Russia because it invaded Ukraine and has been urgent utterly different nations to carve their dependence on Russian oil and utterly different merchandise.

The senior Russian diplomat stated that the sequence of events left no question that Washington had ‘decided to punish a disobedient Imran Khan,’ which also outlined why a chain of contributors from Khan’s ruling coalition decided to swap facets and shift their allegiances earlier than the April 3 no-belief vote. Khan, 69, timorous the Opposition on Sunday by recommending snap elections within three months, minutes after a no-confidence movement in opposition to him used to be pushed aside by the deputy speaker of the National Assembly.

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Khan then received Pakistan President Arif Alvi to dissolve the 342-member National Assembly. Pakistan’s Supreme Court docket on Monday adjourned the listening to on the deputy speaker’s risk to reject the no-confidence movement in opposition to the premier, who had lost majority within the decrease house of Parliament. Khan had named senior US diplomat Donald L. a. the particular individual that used to be allegedly furious relating to the ‘international conspiracy’ to oust his executive thru a no-confidence vote tabled by the Opposition.

Pakistan’s Opposition leaders own ridiculed Khan’s allegation, and the US has pushed aside these claims. Zakharova stated Moscow used to be keenly looking out at the events unfolding in Islamabad over the final three days to boot to the events preceding it. In her commentary, she exuded hope that the Pakistani voters would be properly-instant about these circumstances after they come to vote within the elections which will most definitely be scheduled to be held 90 days after the dissolution of the National Assembly.

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