PM Imran Khan turns down French President's call during media briefing meeting

[maximuswarrior]

Well done IK. First things first. Macron or France is not above the people of Pakistan. The time of serving the white man is over. Awesome gesture.

 

[Devil Soul]

Congratulatory calls usually not pre scheduled but staff first make contact and then handed over line to president.

Macron, Imran exchange views on phone
The Newspaper's Staff ReporterUpdated September 01, 2018
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke over the phone on Friday, but after a drama over the scheduling of the call.

The prime minister was in a meeting with a group of journalists when President Macron first called. On being told by Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua about it, the prime minister asked her to get the pre-scheduled call rescheduled.

The calls between the heads of states and governments are usually scheduled well in advance. It seldom happens that the staff of a head of government or state get an unexpected call from another leader, requesting a conversation. The request for conversation is initiated by the embassy of the country whose leader wishes to speak, while explaining the proposed agenda and reasons for the call. If the receiving leader agrees then the two sides work it into their busy schedules, according to diplomatic protocols for high-level conversations.

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According to a diplomatic source, the call was pre-scheduled. Foreign Office spokesman Dr Muhammad Faisal did not respond when he was asked by Dawn about the veracity of the claim.

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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi later told a journalist that “we had sought time adjustment because the prime minister was in a meeting”.

The two leaders later spoke, according to a source. Details of the conversation were not shared with the media.

 

[Ali Tariq]

Kya lanti media hai hamara

https://twitter.com/x/status/1035857495665852417

 

[Devil Soul]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1035920655299043328

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Purchi wala PM samajh rakha hai

 

[Vergennes]

Core paris is as good as any third world city today. It's known to be the dirtiest and the most violent city in the EU for a reason.

No it's not.

Paris has surely its issues,but it's far from what you are describing. I nearly go to Paris everydays,you probably have never set a foot in this city. BTW,Paris isn't managed by Macron but by a socialist mayor. Resuming a president and a country to only one of its 36K communes.... good job!

On immigration issues,you could well call Macron a hypocrite. You should see how his police forces act impunity,treat migrants either in the streets of Paris,in Calais,how they block them at the Italian border,destroy their belongings,falsify their documents and what else.... Countless migrants have died trying to cross that border,even pregnant women were turned away.

It's true we must accept migrants.... that's why controls are set up in main roads to the Italian border to arrest and send the migrants back....

Every trains,roads,tunnels,pass are controlled...