U.S.' Pompeo warns against IMF bailout for Pakistan that aids China



U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Monday that any potential International Monetary Fund bailout for Pakistan’s new government should not provide funds to pay off Chinese lenders.
In an interview with CNBC television, Pompeo said the United States looked forward to engagement with the new government of Pakistan’s expected new prime minister, Imran Khan, but said there was “no rationale” for a bailout that pays off Chinese loans to Pakistan.
“Make no mistake. We will be watching what the IMF does,” Pompeo said. “There’s no rationale for IMF tax dollars, and associated with that American dollars that are part of the IMF funding, for those to go to bail out Chinese bondholders or China itself,” Pompeo said.

Bilawal Bhutto visits injured PPP worker at SMBB Traumi Center

Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that his party workers who were attacked and maimed during election campaign were being targeted by police instead of the perpetrators and attackers in Sindh.
The PPP Chairman stated this while visiting an injured and under-treatment PPP worker Mohammad Siddiq Mahesar who was shot at and wounded alongwith another Party worker in Mehar on polling day.
Several PPP workers were attacked and injured in Dadu, Mehar, Tharparker, Jacobabad etc. and in Khairpur one worker was killed and many others wounded in different armed attacks.
Injured Mahesar is admitted in Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Trauma Center in Karachi. Chairman PPP was accompanied by former Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, Rashid Rabbani, Waqar Mehdi, Saeed Ghani and other Party leaders.
Bilawal said that complaints have been received that FIRs were being lodged against the victims of PPP with no proper investigations of the attacks on PPP workers.
The PPP chief demanded that culprits who attacked PPP workers in above districts and elsewhere in Sindh should be caught and brought before the law.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/348345-bilawal-bhutto-visits-injured-ppp-worker-at-smbb-traumi-center

Imran’s election win is result of ‘arranged marriage’ says Khursheed Shah

Leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and former Opposition leader in the National Assembly, Khursheed Shah has said that it seems Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan’s election win is the result of an “arranged marriage.” 

While talking to newsmen, Khursheed Shah said that elections results were pre-planned and full punctures were made in the constituencies of Yousaf Raza Gillani, Rasool Bux Chandio, Aijaz Jakhrani and Saad Rafique. 

He said that vote recount needs to be held in only a few constituencies to conduct postmortem of the elections.

http://www.thesindhtimes.com/sindh/07/imrans-election-win-result-arranged-marriage-says-khursheed-shah/