LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari has alleged that Bushra Bibi made the “disgraceful statement about a brotherly Islamic country” on the direction of her husband, PTI supremo Imran Khan.

The minister said “the mention of this lie in the planning of Nov 24 chaos” is a conspiracy against the country. “The agenda of the PTI founder and Bushra Bibi is the same as that of Israel,” she said in a statement on Friday.

She said the PTI founder and wife had gone to extreme lengths in “their animosity against Pakistan”.

“As prime minister, the PTI founder took Pakistan’s relations with Saudi Arabia, China, and the US to a delicate point. He [Imran] used every tactic to isolate Pakistan internationally. Now, Bushra Bibi, following in her husband’s footsteps, is putting the country’s foreign policy at risk,” she said.

She said PM Shehbaz Sharif had worked tirelessly to restore friendly relations with China and Saudi Arabia. She said the statement from an “uneducated and ignorant woman” against friendly countries indicated that she was working on the agenda of “hostile elements”.

Published in Dawn, November 23th, 2024