A day after US President Donald Trump heaped reward on Pakistan Military chief Area Marshal Asim Munir, his personal countryman and Parliamentarian Aimal Wali Khan lashed out on the navy chief, accusing him of behaving “like a salesman” touting uncommon earth minerals throughout his go to to the White Home final week.
Khan’s assault on Munir comes on the again of the Military chief showcasing a field of uncommon earth minerals to Trump, a photograph of which was broadly shared on social media.
Not mincing phrases, Khan charged, “Our chief of military employees is roaming round with a briefcase containing uncommon earth minerals. What a joke! It was absolute mockery. Whoever noticed that photograph thought, ‘Which chief of the military employees would go round carrying a briefcase with uncommon earth minerals?’.”
“To me, it appeared like an enormous, branded retailer – a supervisor watched on fortunately as a shopkeeper tells a buyer to buy an enormous, glittery factor from him,” the Awami Nationwide Social gathering president stated, referring to Munir because the shopkeeper and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as the shop supervisor.
The Pakistani Parliamentarian went as far to label his personal nation a dictatorship, saying, “In what capability? Below which legislation? That is dictatorship. I’m sorry to say this isn’t democracy…is that this not contempt of parliament?”
Earlier, when the photograph was doing the rounds on social media, Khan had mocked it, writing, “An elite designer store ( a newly established). The image defines the characters (sic).”
Khan’s outrage towards Sharif and Munir come at a time when Pakistan has been making an attempt to cozy as much as Trump, with the most recent journey being the Military chief’s third to Washington for the reason that temporary India-Pakistan battle that broke out in Might.
Since then, Trump has repeatedly asserted that he mediated between the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours, and even claimed that Munir had thanked him for saving the lives of thousands and thousands.
Whereas New Delhi has constantly rejected the US President’s assertions, Pakistan, however, has nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize for his self-proclaimed position in brokering a truce.
