Slogans against Pakistan's minister Dar at Washington airport, many have suffered embarrassment including PM

PM of Pakistan or the ministers of his government, all have had to go through very bad conditions abroad. The latest case is of Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, against whom slogans of thieves were raised at Washington Airport.

Slogans against Pakistan's minister Dar at Washington airport, many have suffered embarrassment including PM
Chor-chor slogans against Pakistan's minister Dar at Washington airport, image source: jagran

A hallmark of what kind of image Pakistan has between the world and its own people was seen when slogans of thieves were raised against Pakistan's Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, who arrived at Washington Airport. Dar was there for a meeting with officials in connection with the loan from Washington IMF. Other officials, including Pakistan's Ambassador to America Masood Khan, were present there to pick him up at the airport. As soon as Dar entered the corridor and was received by the officers, slogans were raised against him from behind. The people present at the airport raised slogans of thieves against him. 

According to the Pakistani media, during this time there was a lot of heated argument with the people shouting slogans of PML-N's Virginia Chapter President Money Butt, who came to pick up Dar at the airport. During this, Butt used abusive language. This video of Dar is becoming increasingly viral on social media. In the video, a man can be heard addressing Dar that you are a liar, you are a thief. In response, Dar also called that person a liar and the officers took him away while saving him. 

This didn't happen the first time

This is not the first time that a Pakistani minister has faced such a situation. Earlier, Union Minister Maryam Aurangzeb, who accompanied PM Shehbaz Sharif in London, had also faced a similar situation. Maryam was in a great curse at that time, when some Pakistanis, including women, raised slogans of thieves. 

Told Maryam Aurangzeb and Iqbal as thieves

This video of Maryam also became quite viral on social media. At that time some women criticized Maryam Aurangzeb saying that Aurangzeb, who talks big about hijab and Islam in Pakistan, does not like to wear a scarf on his head in London. In both these incidents, the Pakistani media had described the sloganeering as supporters of former PM Imran Khan's party PTI. Earlier, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal had also faced a similar situation at a restaurant in London. At that time PTI supporters surrounded him and raised slogans against him.

PM Shahbaz also had to face embarrassment

In April, when PM Shahbaz Sharif reached the Masjid-e-Nawabi of Medina's holy mosque in Saudi Arabia after assuming power, similar slogans were raised against him. However, at that time such sloganeering in the mosque was termed wrong by everyone. The PML-N directly blamed Imran Khan's party PTI for this. In one of his interviews, PTI President Imran Khan had also said that today the ministers of the government have such an image in which slogans are raised against them wherever they go and they are called thieves.