Saudi Crown Prince Deliberately Called Back His Private Jet To Snub Imran Khan, Claims Pakistani Magazine

Pakistani weekly magazine 'Friday Times' has made a shocking revelation that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman was very wrothful from some works of Prime Minister Imran Khan during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly, hence, he asked to return PM's fight to the US from midway.

Before visiting the UNGA, Imran had gone to Saudi Arabia and wanted to fly America in a corporate plane. But Salman provide him own special plane. Subsequently, Imran went in MBS' plane and was returning in the same when he had to go back following a technical glitch. Thereafter, the PM boarded a corporate plane.

Now, the Friday Times has shocked the world saying that there was no technical problem but Imran had to return following Salman's resentment.

The Friday Times, in its report, said: "According to his never-say-die supporters, Imran Khan has returned from New York a 'conquering hero'. There were even endorsements of one loyalist suggestion that the commercial plane carrying him back from Jeddah to Islamabad should be escorted by a fleet of F7 Thunder jets as a mark of honour.

"There were some unintended consequences of the trip too. Inexplicably, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, was so alienated by some dimensions of the Pakistani Prime Minister's diplomacy in New York - he couldn't have been happy at the prospect of Imran Khan, Recip Tayyib Erdogan and Mahathir Mohammad planning to jointly represent the Islamic bloc, nor with Pakistan's interlocution with Iran without his explicit approval - that he visibly snubbed Imran by ordering his private jet to disembowel the Pakistani delegation,” the report added.

Meanwhile, the spokesman of Pakistan government has rubbished the claims by the magazine. He said: "This is a cooked story. Pakistan and Saudi Arab leaders have good relations. There is an attempt to weaken the successful talks between world leader and the Prime Minister. Conclusion over the Prime Minister's meeting with Turkey and Malaysia leader was self-made. The report was aimed to strike on the relations of two country for political motives. We dismiss this report".

(With inputs from IANS)