It seems like Pakistan, Imran Khan and misery go hand in hand and the misery is continuing to pile on the Prime Minister of the world’s terrorist capital.
A Pakistan magazine has claimed that “Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was “alienated” with “some dimensions” of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s actions on the sidelines of the UNGA session in New York last month, so much so that he ordered his “private jet to disembowel the Pakistani delegation” as a consequence.
Earlier reports had said that while returning from New York to Islamabad, the Saudi plane had developed a technical glitch following which Mr Khan and his delegation had to return to New York from where Khan took a commercial flight back to Pakistan.
Turns out, Pakistan was hiding a major embarrassment and it was indeed a facepalm moment for Imran and a fitting end to his USA sojourn where he was embarrassed left, right and centre.
Before attending the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, Imran had first visited Saudi Arabia. While departing for New York from Jeddah, the Saudi Crown Prince had loaned the plane to Khan whose country is going through economic turmoil and therefore he would have accepted the offer very graciously and earnestly. After all, he would not have to shell out his own money.
Imran Khan had received a red doormat welcome upon his arrival in the USA as the Trump administration did not deem it fit to send officials to receive him. Maleeha Lodhi, the now-sacked Pakistan UN representative inadvertently embarrassed Imran Khan as she laid down the red doormat to welcome him, who himself came on the same plane that has now been taken away by the Saudi Crown Prince.
On the sidelines of the UNGA, Mr Khan had met Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed, where the three leaders formed a little kitty party and decided to launch “a BBC type English language TV Channel that will apart from highlighting Muslim issues, will also fight Islamophobia.
The three obnoxious leaders had been planning to jointly represent the Islamic bloc which must not have gone down well with Saudi Arabia which is the head honcho of the current Islamic bloc.
Saudi Arabia spends millions to promote Wahhabi Islam all over the world so that it can dominate the Islamic world, therefore it can not allow Pakistan or any other country to take its place at any cost, especially in an arrangement where Saudi Arabia gives such huge financial assistance to Pakistan.
During the UNGA, Mr Khan had announced that he was working to mediate with Iran to defuse the tensions in the Gulf at the request of both US President Donald Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince which the report claims was false as Khan did not have Crown Prince’s explicit approval and therefore Imran’s interlocution with Iran did not go down well with Saudi Arabia and consequently the plane was demanded back. Imran must have blabbered the statement just to woo Trump, where he failed again too, as Trump called out Imran and his vile-reporters.
Imran Khan’s maiden address to the UNGA was a case study of how not to give an address as Khan like a cry-baby continued to rant for 50 minutes, well-beyond the stipulated time of 15-20 minutes.
He indulged in hate speech and made several gaffes as he uttered rubbish like ‘we will fight till the end’, ‘more Muslims will be radicalized’, ‘there will be bloodshed’, all which was extremely unbecoming of a leader of a nation (though it’s the ISI which actually controls Pak), that made him indistinguishable from any other radicalized terrorist.
Imran Khan was obsessed with PM Modi, Hindus, RSS and mentioned Kashmir and Allah in almost every sentence of his speech
The truth is that Saudi Arabia might have loaned the aircraft to Khan in good faith but Pakistan being Pakistan irked Saudi Arabia and therefore had to suffer the embarrassment.
Another truth is that Pakistan is internationally isolated and if Saudi snubs it any further, Pakistan would not have any place to go as it is already on the verge of bankruptcy and desperately dependent on other nations while its resurgent neighbour, India is making strong strides on the global map and yes, its Prime Minister does not need any aircraft from any foreign country to travel.