Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday said the rousing welcome accorded to him by his supporters after his first official visit to the US made him feel as if he has won the cricket World Cup for the country.
Prime Minister Khan embarked on his three-day visit to theUS this week to reset strained bilateral ties with Washington. He heldwide-ranging talks with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Mondayand also met Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The 66-year-old cricketer-turned politician arrived on aQatar Airlines plane at the New International Islamabad Airport early morningand was greeted by his supporters raising slogans in his favour.
“I felt as if I came home after winning the World Cupand not from an official visit,” Khan, the former captain of the Pakistanicricket team, which won the cricket World Cup in 1992, said as he brieflyaddressed the crowd.
His return coincided with his election victory on July 25last year.
“We have to transform all institutions which had beendestroyed by thieves who only want to loot Pakistan,” he said.
On his way back to Islamabad, Khan had a brief stopover inDoha where he his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa AlThani, the Foreign Office said.
Khan said he has asked the US and other western countries tohelp Pakistan get back the plundered wealth kept abroad by the “thievesand robbers”.
The Prime Minister vowed that he will never disappoint thenation by bowing before anyone.
He said the days were not far when the world will respectthe green passport of the country and Pakistan will emerge as a great countryin the world.
The Prime Minister’s US visit has been termed”diplomatic coup” for Khan and Pakistan by the Pakistani media afterthe two countries seems to have normalised bilateral ties and President DonaldTrump offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.Pakistan’s Opposition parties have criticisedKhan for criticising them on foreign soil and they are staging countrywidedemonstrations against alleged fraud in the 2018 general elections