Tag: Donald Lu
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Finance Minister Aurangzeb meets Donald Lu in Washington DC
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb held a high-level meeting with the United States State Department Assistant Secretary Donald Lu at World Bank headquarters in Washington to discuss financial reforms that Pakistan is planning to implement. The meeting was held in the background of the Finance Minister’s visit to Washington in order to finalize talks about the…
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Donald Lu expresses concerns over Feb 8 election irregularities
Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu has pointed out irregularities in the Feb 8 polls and said that the United States (US) is committed to making Pakistani democratic institutions stronger, Geo reported on Wednesday. Lu will attend a Congressional panel hearing about Pakistan today. The hearing titled ‘Pakistan after the Elections: Examining the Future of…
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US diplomat Donald Lu to testify on Feb 8 polls before Congress
The Assistant Secretary of the US Department of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Donald Lu, has been asked to appear before a congress panel to testify whether the February 8 polls in Pakistan were fair or not. Lu will testify during a hearing on March 20 as the former prime minister Imran…
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US finally defends Donald Lu against PTI allegations
More than an year after Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu was named by the then Prime Minister Imran Khan as a conspirator who got his government removed from power, a senior US official has publicly defended him. Elizabeth Horst, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, said that the allegations levelled by the Chairman…
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Amreeki saazish ya kuch aur: PTI leaders meet American diplomats?
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday reportedly had a meeting with former United States diplomat Robin Raphel at his Bani Gala residence in Islamabad. Raphel is a former diplomat, ambassador, CIA analyst, lobbyist, and expert on Pakistan affairs. In 2009, she served the State Department as a senior adviser for Pakistan. Until November…
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‘Made a mistake, want to fix matters’: Khawaja Asif says Khan wants to make amends with the US
The United States (US) State Department restated its claim that there is no truth to the allegations that Washington was involved in a conspiracy to oust the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government. The reiteration came on Sunday after media reports that PTI’s Secretary of the Office of International Chapters (OIC) Dr Abdullah Riar had contacted the…
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‘Is say zaida Allah ki kya lanat hogi ke Madina mein aap ke khilaaf naray lagay’: Khan
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that the incumbent government was cursed by Allah to the point that even when they [governemnt officials] were in Madina, people couldn’t stop themselves from chanting slogans against these corrupt leaders. Khan was addressing a lawyers’ convention in Peshawar. “What was our [PTI’s] fault if ordinary…
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Inclusion of Rs28 billion relief package in upcoming budget: PM Shehbaz
Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif said that the government would include a Rs28 billion package in the upcoming budget to provide relief to the masses. He was addressing the nation yesterday (May 27). PM Shehbaz said that aside from the relief package, the government would immediately provide Rs2,000 for around 85 million people to help…
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Donald Lu should be sacked over his ‘sheer arrogance and bad manners’: Khan
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday called for the sacking of United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Donald Lu for “sheer arrogance and bad manners”. In an interview with CNN, Khan said the US diplomat told Pakistan’s ambassador that unless “you get Imran Khan removed in a…
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Political use of ‘diplomatic cable’ to haunt Pakistan’s Foreign Office for many years: report
The ‘diplomatic cable’ which has plunged Pakistan into a constitutional crisis, also attracted fair resentment from the Foreign Office (FO) against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for using the communique for gaining ‘political mileage’. Kamran Yousaf in his report for The Express Tribune writes, “Two Foreign Office officials, spoke to The Express Tribune on condition of…