Ahsan Iqbal seeks explanation on reports of Israeli visit

A tweet from a Israeli journalist that an aircraft flew from Tel Aviv to Islamabad has sparked a storm of rumors on social media.

According to BBC the plane was not registered in Israel and it actually flew from Amman.

Avi Scharf, editor of Israeli newspaper Haretz who first tweeted about the alleged arrival of the aircraft, said the plane did not directly fly from the Israeli capital into Islamabad.

Quoting the BBC report, PMLN leader Ahsan Iqbal took to Twitter and sought explanation from the government.

حکومت حقیقی صورتحال فوری طور پہ واضح کرے https://t.co/8dFKV9sWBt

— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 27, 2018

MOFA please tell what is this? https://t.co/NV7Ni9Ou85

— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 26, 2018

Responding to Iqbal, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry asked him not to worry as Pakistan was in the safe hands.

حقیقی صورتحال یہ ہے کہ عمران خان نواز شریف ہے نہ اس کی کابینہ میں آپ جیسے جعلی ارسطو ہیں، ہم نہ مودی جی سے خفیہ مذاکرات کریں گے نہ اسرائیل سے، آپ کو پاکستان کی اتنی فکر ہوتی جتنی ظاہر کر رہے ہیں تو آج ہم ان حالات میں نہ ہوتے، اس لئے جعلی فکر نہ کریں ،پاکستان محفوظ ہاتھوں میں ہے https://t.co/JUtbZQbArj

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) October 27, 2018

“The fact is that neither Imran is a Nawaz Sharif nor he has a fake Aristotle like you in his cabinet. We will neither hold secret talks with Modi nor Israel,” he wrote.

However, senior PMLN leader wasn’t satisfied with the response.
“The angry reaction of Information minister reveals that something fishy is going on”, He tweeted in Urdu.

جس انداز میں وزیر اطلاعات محض وضاحت مانگنے پر آگ بھگولہ ہوئے ہیں اس سے تو یہی لگتا ہے کہ دال میں کچھ کالا ضرور ہے- https://t.co/SDluVgPx8O

— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 27, 2018