While responding to a question during a routine media briefing regarding the United States consular staff who visited Adiala Jail to meet a Pakistani-American who has been convicted for the gruesome murder of his girlfriend but did not meet Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said that the question can be better answered by the US embassy in Pakistan.
According to the World News Agency, a journalist further asked the spokesperson that “former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, had admitted that the current government had stolen the mandate. Do you agree with Abbasi?”
To which the Miller briefly replied that you must have heard me say many times from this platform that the decision about the government in Pakistan will be decided by the people of Pakistan.
The journalist added that a few days ago, the US consular staff from the Islamabad Embassy went to meet the Pakistani-American man named Zahir Jafar, who has been convicted for the gruesome murder of his girlfriend.
The journalist asked that American diplomats went to Adiala Jail to meet Zahir Jafar while former Prime Minister Imran Khan is also imprisoned in the nearby cells, but why was he not meeting Khan when Pakistani-Americans have repeatedly demanded it?
In response to this question, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said that the question can be better answered by the US Embassy in Pakistan.
During the briefing, Matthew Miller was asked if the US has any information that Iran is supporting ISIS in recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In response, Matthew Miller said that he does not agree with this. “I do not have any such information,” he added.
He also denied the impression that the Biden administration's actions have emboldened Iran.