FO rejects reports of IAEA delegation’s visit to Pakistan

Uncategorized , / Friday, March 29th, 2024

Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on Friday rejected the news circulating on media regarding the visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation to Pakistan. The statement comes a day after notable figures within the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) US chapter, alongside numerous users whose online activity indicated support for the party, shared a video excerpt sourced from an Indian news broadcast by Zee News. The segment featured a meeting between IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “Stories regarding the visit of a high-level IAEA delegation to Pakistan are fake news,” Baloch said in a post shared on X.She said that no IAEA official is currently visiting Pakistan, nor are any policy talks planned near future.

with the UN body. “We had briefed the media on the occasion,” she concluded. During the meeting between PM Shehbaz and Grossi in February 2023, PM Shehbaz stressed greater collaboration with IAEA in terms of research on new high-yield and drought-resistant varieties of crops. In a meeting with the Director General of IAEA, the prime minister emphasised collaboration in view of the impact of climate change on Pakistan and related challenges including water, energy and food security.