Imran Khan Demands US Assistant Secretary Of State Be Sacked: Report
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Islamabad: Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for the sacking of US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Donald Lu for his "sheer arrogance and bad manners", according to a media report.
Mr Lu is the central figure in Imran Khan's claims about a US-backed regime-change conspiracy that toppled his government last month through a no-confidence motion.
He accused Mr Lu of threatening Pakistan's former ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed, that a failure to remove Imran Khan through a no-confidence vote would herald "consequences" for Pakistan and vice versa. Imran Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , also alleges that the threat was made even before the no-confidence motion was tabled and it subsequently started a chain of events that resulted in his ouster as local abettors and conspirators joined with the claimed conspiracy. Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that Imran Khan repeated his claims in an exclusive interview on CNN programme Connect the World on Monday, and lashed out at Donald Lu while calling for his sacking.
Imagine telling the ambassador of a country of 220 million people that you get rid of your Prime Minister," he said.
Questioned on why he had neglected to make his claims public earlier when he was so "specific" about their details, the cricketer-turned-politician said he had placed the cypher - containing details of the meeting between Mr Lu and Pakistan's ambassador - before his Cabinet which was later presented in a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC).
