On February 10, US Consul General Mark Stroh met with MQM leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Nasreen Jaleel.
U.S. Political Unit Chief Colin Malloy Cram met with Javed Hanif of MQM.
US Lega Attache Shunshine Adams met with Muslim League (Nawaz Shareef) leader Dr. Sham Sundar Advani.
On February 5 and 7, US Legal Attachee met with the PP leader Mohammad Khan Gabool.
On February 4, US Consul General Mark Stroh met with the Peoples Party leader Saleem Mandiwala.
On March 21 US Political Officer Andrea Hillyer met in Peshawar with the Pakhtunkhwa Minister Atif Khan.
On March 8 US Consul General met with MPA Samiullah Khan and MPA Saeeda Bukhari.
On March 7, US Consul General met in Lahore with former Governor of Punjab and Peoples Party leader Ahmed Mehmood. Also met with Abdul Qadir and Mumtaz Ali from Peoples Party as well as renegade PTI MNA Aleem Khan.
On March 3, US Embassy First Secretary Heather Grace Eaton met in Islamabad with the Muslim League (Nawaz Shareef) leaders Shahi Khaqan Abbasi, Ahsan Iqbal, Tariq Fazal, Mohammad Zubair, Ahmed Jawad and renegade MNAs of the PTI.
The same day US Consul General William K. Makaneole met with Hamza Shareef, son of Shahbaz Shareef.
US Consul General also met with MNA Shaesta Parwez, MPA Kanwal Liaqat, MPA Ramadan Siddiq Bhatti and Zakia Shahnawaz.
Apparently detail of the US diplomats' meetings with opposition leaders as well as renegade MNAs of the PTI were released to show that during these meetings the US diplomats cultivated them to topple the government of Imran Khan. It resulted in the no-confidence motion moved in the parliament against the government of Imran Khan.
Pakistan has frosty relations with the U.S.
It may be pointed out that Pakistan has frosty relations with the United States in recent months.
The News International wrote on October 12, 2021: It is now obvious after the visit to Pakistan by US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman that relations between Washington and Islamabad are, at the present time, cooler than has been the case for many decades. This is essentially not good news for Pakistan nor indeed for the US. Pakistan needs to maintain a cordial relationship with Washington, even if not a subservient one, in order to prevent further international isolation and to keep up with a strong relationship that can bolster its own position in the region and provide vital aid in many sectors.
Tellingly, on October 13, 2021, Asad Majeed, the then-Pakistan Ambassador to the United States, said it seems that now Islamabad may not enjoy the cordial relations as it once did with Washington. "To expect relations between Pakistan and the US to once again return to what they used to be in the past will not be a realistic approach," he was quoted by Daily Times as saying.
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