ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will leave for the first foreign trip of the year at the end of this month.
The prime minister will visit Sri Lanka for two days on 22nd February to address the Sri Lankan Parliament. He will address human rights concerns during his visit.
However, the Foreign Office had previously not made any comment. “I can confirm that the visit is taking place and a curtain-raiser will be issued closer to the visit,” a senior official was quoted as saying by a newspaper.
The prime minister is expected to arrive in Colombo on 22nd February where he will be meeting Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Moreover, PM Imran Khan had criticized the opposition parties in the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), saying they should be questioned for their failure to stop horse-trading in Senate elections. The prime minister during his address to media at the Ehsaas Kafalat Programme at Kallar Syedan near Rawalpindi.
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“When the political leaders know that money is traded, why didn’t they make an effort to change it?” questioned the prime minister. “Because they themselves make money from it,” he added by further saying, “These thieves who call themselves politicians and have made a union in the PDM to protect their corruption.”
He said the opposition parties have been in power for thirty years and should be questioned on the efforts to stop horse-trading in the Senate election. The prime minister further said he himself had been offered money many times for a Senate seat “not just from one person but from many people.
