LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari said on Saturday that PTI founder leader Imran Khan did everything to isolate Pakistan but failed.

“Whenever a leader from a friendly country visits, these people start mischief to spoil Pakistan’s relations,” she told a press conference here. She said Imran Khan wanted NRO (deal).

“When someone visits him in jail, he (Imran) asks him to get him released through NRO,” she said.

Bokhari alleged the entire KP government was involved in corruption. “The incompetent government, in power for 12 years, has only increased the people’s suffering. The public needs to be told what special ability Ghandapur possesses for which he was made the Chief Minister of KP,” she said.

She said Shehbaz Sharif had given Pakistan a new identity.

“No one attended the phone call of Imran Khan during his government. When the founder of PTI made his final call from Adiala Jail, it turned out to be a missed call. Despite the call for civil disobedience, remittances saw a record surge, with overseas Pakistanis sending $3.1 billion to Pakistan. Efforts were made to harm Pakistan through the civil disobedience movement of PTI, but no friendly nation paid any attention to the PTI policies,” she said.

Published in Dawn, January 12th, 2025