Pakistan: Bilwal Bhutto calls PM Imran Khan a 'foreign-funded' agent

Zardari said the PM has been planted to destroy Pakistan's economy.

The PPP chairman was quoted as saying by The News International while addressing a press conference at the Zardari House along with former prime minister and opposition leader in the Senate Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Senator Sherry Rehman, Faisal Karim Kundi and Shazia Marri.

The PPP chairman said that Imran had deliberately damaged the Kashmir cause by issuing statements in favour of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2019 elections in India.

Bilawal said that Imran cannot become Zulfikar Ali Bhutto with his rhetoric on foreign policy, saying that his policies did no good to the country.

“You are a foreign-sponsored agent who was planted in our system to destroy the country's economy, slow down the work on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and isolate Pakistan at the international level with wrong policies,” Bilawal was quoted as saying by the newspaper, adding that the PTI government's policies had angered Pakistan's long-term allies.

“He is adopting the foreign policy of India. What is the difference between his foreign policy and that of India right now,” Bilawal said about Imran Khan.

“You have distanced Pakistan from its long-term friends - the United States and the European Union - with which we have trade relations worth billions of dollars.”