Love-hate relationship: The US Embassy in Pakistan has apologised for retweeting an anti-government statement from an opposition leader who suggested Prime Minister Imran Khan would fall from power in the wake of Trump’s election defeat. — AP
PAKISTANIS just can’t get enough of America. For 10 days we were transfixed on the outcome of the US election. With the tension released following confirmation the Biden campaign had triumphed, we turned our attention to the US embassy’s official Twitter handle.
The US Embassy’s retweet of a prominent PML-N leader’s post about Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ostensible similarities to Donald Trump, including a prediction that the former will follow the latter out of office, spiralled into what some PTI ministers described as a diplomatic crisis. It will, of course, blow over soon, this hardly being the first time US diplomats have meddled in Pakistani politics.
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