The United States supports peaceful upholding of constitutional and democratic principles in Pakistan, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily news conference. "As you heard from me last week, we support the peaceful upholding of constitutional and democratic principles in Pakistan," he said.
This comes after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan named senior US diplomat Donald Lu as the person who was allegedly involved in the "foreign conspiracy" to topple his government through a no-confidence vote tabled by the opposition. Addressing a meeting of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders here after the National Assembly Deputy Speaker rejected the no-trust motion, citing national security, said that during the National Security Committee's meeting, the country's highest security body, it was also noted that a foreign interference was made into the internal politics of the country through a no-confidence motion.
Price reiterated that there is no truth in the allegations that the United States is interfering in the internal affairs of Pakistan and tried to topple the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan. "There is absolutely no truth to the allegations," Price said in response to a question.
Khan claimed that Lu warned the Pakistani envoy to the US, Asad Majeed, that there would be "implications" if the Pakistan prime minister survived the no-trust vote in the National Assembly. He said minutes of the communique regarding a meeting between the ambassador of Pakistan in the US and the US officials were shared in the NSC's meeting.
"A plan was perpetrated outside Pakistan to interfere into internal politics of the country, adding when the highest national security body confirmed it, it became irrelevant as to how many numbers the opposition had in the assembly," the official APP news agency quoted Khan as saying. The embassy officials of the said country were also in contact with the PTI members who had defected, he claimed. Khan said that the no-confidence motion against him was a foreign conspiracy and he thanked Allah that it failed.
-Inputs from PTI