“Bilawal Bhutto should apologise for his Modi comments ahead of his scheduled Bharat visit”, Firstpost, April 26, 2023:
“On 20 April, Pakistan’s foreign ministry announced that foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will visit Bharat to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO) foreign ministers meeting in Goa on 4-5 May.
As the SCO has been under the deep influence of China and given Pakistan’s nexus with China, it is impossible to conceive that Bilawal would have attended the meeting if the Chinese had asked him to stay away. Clearly, they have not done that.
It is noteworthy that Bilawal could have attended the meeting virtually but is coming in person. Bilawal’s choice of doing so could not have been his alone. The leaders of the three major constituent parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would have been taken on board.
Thus, Nawaz Sharif, Asif Ali Zardari and Maulana Fazlur Rehman would have signalled their consent to this trip. Besides, the present army chief General Asim Munir too would have given his approval….”
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