By Mashal Khan

ISLAMABAD (TSAT) - Pakistan Foreign Ministry on late Thursday summoned the senior US diplomate in Islamabad and lodge a strong protest over alleged attempts of regime change in the South Asian country.

In a short statement, issued by the Foreign Ministry, said that as decided in the National Security Committee meeting held on 31 March 2022, the requisite demarches have been made through diplomatic channels.

The ministry didn’t mention the name of the country and its envoy, however, Prime Minister Imran Khan in his address to the nation on Thursday evening mistakenly named the US. 

The local media also reported that the threatening letter to PM Khan had received from Washington in which the US want regime change in the country due to Khan’s foreign policy shift from west to east. 

On Thursday, the country's top civil and military leadership in the NSC meeting expressed grave concern at the communication from a country, and termed the language used by the foreign official as “undiplomatic.”

Pakistani leadership also called the US official communication as blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan and said it's “unacceptable under any circumstances.”

Later in the evening, Khan also addressed the nation and said he received the letter on March 7, in which the foreign country official told his ambassador to oust him through the no-confidence motion in the parliament. 

The major opposition parties including Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz,(PML-N) Pakistan People Party (PPP), and JUI submitted the no-confidence motion against Khan in the parliament on March 8. Just a day after the letter was received in Islamabad. 

PML-N and PPP remained in power several times and currently its leaders facing corruption charges in the country.

While the PML-N supremo and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently living in London, had disqualified by the country's top court on corruption charges in 2017.