Pakistan on Friday summoned Britain’s Deputy High Commissioner, Matt Cannell, after an alleged video surfaced online showing a woman at a rally in the UK openly referring to a possible attack on Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs lodged a formal protest and demanded an investigation, claiming the remarks — made at a rally in Bradford in northern England — crossed the line from political speech into an explicit security threat. The woman spoke of Munir being killed in a car bombing, triggering alarm in Islamabad.
Threat aired at pro-Imran Khan rally
The alleged remarks were made during a rally organised in support of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan. The video was shared by the UK chapter of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party on X before being quietly deleted.
