No truth to claims: US on Imran allusion to ‘conspiracy’

ISLAMABAD: Soon after Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s speech on Thursday, in which he seemed to be pointing a finger at the US as the foreign conspirator behind the no-confidence motion against him, US reacted to diatribe. “There is no truth to these allegations,” a state department spokesperson said, reports

Omer Farooq Khan

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Imran said the alleged conspirators knew of the no-trust move even before it was tabled in parliament. “It means they (the opposition parties) were connected with those abroad. They say they are angry with Pakistan… they make this excuse. They say they will forgive Pakistan if the no-trust move against

Imran

Khan succeeds. But if it fails, then Pakistan will have face grave consequences,” he said.

“We are a nation of 220 million and another country is threatening us without any reason,” he claimed, explaining that trigger was him deciding to visit Russia on his own.

Imran claimed “foreign forces” had conveyed to

Pak

’s envoy that it had no issue with people who would replace him.

“The most disturbing thing is they have links with people through whom the conspiracy (no-trust move) happened. They (the opposition leaders) are stooges, and stooges means loyal slaves,” he said.