On Friday, US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Jalina Porter said the US welcomed the Pakistani National Security Committee’s (NSC) statement rejecting claims of a “foreign conspiracy” to destabilise former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government.
Porter made the comments during a news conference after a journalist asked how she felt about the NSC’s decision.
“The meeting of [the] National Security Committee was headed by the newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, and senior military and civil officers were present,” the journalist stated.
Porter praised the NSC’s statement, saying that the US has said “all along” that the rumours were “completely false.”
“I’d also like to emphasise that the US cherishes our long-standing partnership with Pakistan and has always seen a strong, wealthy, and democratic Pakistan as essential to US interests,” the senior official added.
On Friday, the National Security Council announced that no evidence of a “foreign conspiracy” to destabilise Imran Khan’s government had been discovered. It really do, however, reaffirm the choices made at its previous meeting.
On March 31, the high-powered group, chaired by Imran Khan, condemned what it called “blatant involvement” in Pakistan’s domestic affairs by an unnamed country as “unacceptable under any circumstances.” Pakistan has also agreed to issue a forceful demarche to the country in question, which was carried out.
The NSC meeting on Friday, which was led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, determined that no evidence of a foreign conspiracy had been discovered, based on the input of security agencies and the former Pakistan ambassador to the US.
The NSC discussed a telegraph received from the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, according to a statement released by the PM Office. The committee was informed on the background and content of the former Pakistan envoy’s telegram by the former Pakistan envoy to the United States. After reviewing the communication’s content, the NSC reaffirmed the choices made at its prior meeting.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan displayed a secret letter at a public gathering in Islamabad on March 27 only days before he was toppled from power, saying that his administration was being overthrown by an international plot.
Despite earlier claims that he couldn’t reveal the interfering country’s name because the results would be detrimental to Pakistan, he called the no-confidence motion against him a “huge foreign conspiracy against Pakistan” and soon after revealed that the US had sent the “threatening letter,” despite earlier claims that he couldn’t reveal the interfering country’s name because the results would be detrimental to Pakistan.
Imran had claimed that the letter warned that if the no-confidence vote failed, Pakistan would face major consequences, and that the letter’s wording was unusually harsh, with the no-trust motion cited multiple times.
