Pakistan magazine claims Saudi Prince called back Imran Khan's plane

October 07, 2019 13:39

A Pakistani magazine has claimed that Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was alienated with some dimensions of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khans actions on the sidelines of the UNGA session in New York last month, that he ordered his private jet to disembowel the Pakistani delegation as a consequence.

Before attending the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Khan had first visited Saudi Arabia.

While departing for New York from Jeddah, the Saudi Crown Prince stopped Khan from embarking a commercial flight to the US and asked him to fly onboard his private jet as he could not let his guest travel in a commercial plane, Pakistani media reports had said.

But while Khan was returning to Islamabad from New York on September 28, it was reported that the Saudi plane developed a technical glitch following which the Prime Minister and his delegation returned to New York and then took a commercial flight back to Pakistan.

But the Friday Times weekly magazine has contradicted this claim and in an article published on October 4, it said: The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman, was so alienated by some dimensions of the Pakistani Prime Ministers diplomacy in New York - he couldnt have been happy at the prospect of Imran Khan, (Turkish President) Recep Tayyip Erdogan and (Malaysian Prime Minister) Mahathir Mohammad planning to jointly represent the Islamic bloc, nor with Pakistans interlocution with Iran without his explicit approval...

...He visibly snubbed Imran by ordering his private jet to disembowel the Pakistani delegation...

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