Twitter reacts to Asad Umar resigning as finance minister
Finance Minister Asad Umar on Thursday announced that he has obtained Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s consent “to not take any cabinet position” after being offered the Energy Ministry instead.
“As part of a cabinet reshuffle, prime minister desired that I take the energy minister portfolio instead of finance. However, I have obtained his consent to not take any cabinet position,” he tweeted.
With Umar’s statement confirming earlier media reports of a possible reshuffle in PM Imran’s cabinet, hundreds of netizens took to Twitter to react to “another U-turn of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government”.
This is considered to be another #Uturn by @ImranKhanPTI.
— Ali Rao (@AliRaoOfficial) April 18, 2019
House of cards #AsadUmar
— Mubashir Zaidi (@Xadeejournalist) April 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/meany69/status/1118811789096046592 https://twitter.com/MurtazaViews/status/1118817305037819904Now as PM @ImranKhanPTI has asked @Asad_Umar to resign and #AsadUmar has himself confirmed it, @fawadchaudhry's Tweet he did last Monday proved he's not credible.
— Naimat Khan (@NKMalazai) April 18, 2019
Sources of @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL & @BOLNewsOfficial were right. Will @reportpemra take back its notices to #ARY ,#Bol? https://t.co/riVjQ1kQF9
Meanwhile, some highlighted the funnier side of the development.
https://twitter.com/MascaraForLife/status/1118814483332370432 https://twitter.com/_shairani/status/1118813071940706304Asad Umar resign from #FinanceMinister #AsadUmar pic.twitter.com/H4V7Ige3a7
— Jiya Sethi 🦋 (@sethiipk) April 18, 2019
Some also started guessing how “Patwaris” must be reacting.
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