Middle East scenario, Israel-Iran conflict and Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan: It was September 6, 2014, when President Xi Jinping’s first visit to Pakistan was postponed over the mass anti-government demonstrations of PTI and PAT outside the Parliament House Islamabad. The visit was rescheduled to March 2015 but even then it was postponed because PTI was still sitting outside the Parliament House. The demand of Imran Khan and cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri was that the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif step down over allegations of fraud in the 2013 general election. Since then, PTI always arranged protests in Pakistan whenever any important diplomatic visit, event, or conference takes place in Pakistan. That was the time when the foreign office of Pakistan was allegedly providing minute-to-minute developments taking place between Beijing and Islamabad to PTI leadership so the PTI was planning everything according to the available information. Pakistan’s government through back-channel diplomacy contacted a foreign country’s embassy in Islamabad and demanded punitive action…
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