Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on Friday rejected news circulating on the 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.
Stories regarding the visit of a high-level IAEA delegation to Pakistan are fake news! No IAEA official is currently visiting Pakistan; Nor are any policy talks planned in near future with IAEA. DG IAEA visited Pakistan in Feb 2023. We had briefed the media on the occasion.
She said that no IAEA official is currently visiting Pakistan, nor are any policy talks planned in the near future with the UN body. “We had briefed the media on the occasion,” she concluded. n 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.
