\u2018Viceroy in all but name\u2019
\n ISLAMABAD
\nPTI leader Shireen Mazari on Saturday criticised US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome\u2019s visit to \u201csensitive areas\u201d of the country, branding the envoy a \u201cviceroy in all but name\u201d.
\n\u201cUS envoy and his gang flying over sensitive areas of Pakistan on way to Torkham and surveying lay of land + official briefing and red carpet! Areas ordinary Pakistani citizens can\u2019t go!
\n\u201cBlome (is) viceroy in all but name and arrogance writ large? One more US regime change conspiracy agenda item fulfilled!\u201d she tweeted.
\nPictures shared by Mazari showed Blome in a helicopter en route to Torkham border and being briefed by security officials.
\nLater in the day, the former human rights minister responded to pictures being shared of the US envoy with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra at a function of the United States Agency for International Development on Thursday for the handover of 36 vehicle to the provincial government.
\nMazari said those sharing the pictures did not realise that such government-to-government socioeconomic programmes were done through agreements and were the \u201cnorm\u201d.
\nHowever, she reiterated that an envoy going to \u201csensitive areas\u201d and being provided access was \u201ca security issue\u201d. \u201cSo is there a security agreement now in place with (the) US? We should know if there is,\u201d Mazari questioned.
\nSeparately, PTI Chairman Imran Khan reiterated his claims of conspiracy, saying that Pakistan was facing fascism in the form of a \u201ccabal of crooks and their handlers brought to power through US regime change conspiracy\u201d.
\n\u201cWill our people bow down before this conspiracy in fear or, as a nation, face up to the challenge?\u201d he asked.
\nImran has claimed that a US-|backed regime change was the reason his government was ousted. He has called for sacking US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Donald Lu, who he accuses of telling Pakistan\u2019s former ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed, that a failure to remove the PTI government through a no-confidence vote would herald \u201cconsequences\u201d for Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018Viceroy in all but name\u2019 ISLAMABAD PTI leader Shireen Mazari on Saturday criticised US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome\u2019s visit to \u201csensitive areas\u201d of the country, branding the envoy a \u201cviceroy in all but name\u201d. \u201cUS envoy and his gang flying over sensitive areas of Pakistan on way to Torkham and surveying lay of land […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n