Trump might tweet about Imran Khan in coming days: Nusrat Javed

Senior journalist Nusrat Javed has said on the Public TV programme Khabar Nashar that strong sources that he has access to claim that United States President-elect Donald Trump "might tweet about Imran Khan in the future."

"There is a person named Sajjad Barki in Texas who is a member of the overseas PTI community who has met with Donald Trump recently. A very well-informed diplomat told me that a high-placed government official had told him about a meeting between overseas PTI leader Sajjad Barki and Donald Trump," stated Nusrat Javed.

Programme analyst Adnan Haider asked Nusrat: "What's the big deal about that? It's just a meeting."

Nusrat replied, "The news is that Donald Trump might make a post on Twitter which is now known as X. Obviously, this post can be about only one person."

It is worth mentioning that on April 25 this year, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf officially appointed Mr. Sajjad Barki as the Secretary of Organisations of the International Chapter (OIC). PTI's official page on X made the announcement, saying the appointment had been made "as per the instructions of the Founder Chairman Imran Khan."

"Sajjad Barki has allegedly told the PTI leadership or whoever he's in contact with usually that he has held a meeting with Donald Trump and told them to stop worrying," remarked Nusrat Javed.

Interestingly, ever since Donald Trump won a landslide victory in the Presidential election, PTI leaders have pinned all their hopes on Trump to take their party out of the doldrums. 

Ironically, PTI blamed the US for conspiring against its government when Imran Khan was ousted from power through a no-confidence motion in 2022. Imran Khan, in an infamous rally, waved a page in front of a charged crowd, which was allegedly the cypher sent to Islamabad by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington.

The Intercept, a US-based news website, in August 2023 published what it claimed to be the "cypher" that hinted the US administration wanted to remove Khan from power. 

However, later, Khan and his party changed their narratives multiple times while the American-Pakistani community continuously lobbied among US politicians to pressure the Pakistani government to release Imran Khan.

The PTI overseas leadership also endorsed Donald Trump in last month's presidential elections, calling out the Biden-Harris administration for not listening to their concerns.