Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said that party had decided against inviting foreign dignitaries to PM-elect Imran Khan’s oath-taking ceremony.
Speaking to the media regarding preparations for Imran’s oath-taking ceremony, he said that the PTI chairman had directed that the ceremony should be extremely simple and not ostentatious.
“We will not invite any foreign dignitaries,” Chaudhry said.
However, he added that some foreign friends of Imran would be invited to the event. “A few of Imran’s friends are the only foreign nationals being invited to the event,” he said.
“The ceremony will be a purely national event,” he added.
Chaudhry also clarified that Imran would take his oath as 20th prime minister of Pakistan at the President House in Islamabad.
A day earlier, the PTI spokesperson had shared that Imran extended an invitation to Indian sportsmen and Bollywood star Aamir Khan to attend this oath-taking ceremony.
Chaudhry remarked that those invited to the oath-taking ceremony include former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Navjot Sidhu and Bollywood star Aamir Khan.
Published in Daily Times, August 3rd 2018.
