Pakistani Senator Aimal Wali Khan ridiculed Military Chief Asim Munir, calling him a “salesman” for reportedly displaying uncommon earth minerals to US President Donald Trump throughout his current go to to Washington.
Khan remarked, “Our Military Chief is wandering round carrying a briefcase stuffed with uncommon earth minerals. What a joke! Anybody seeing that image would marvel, ‘Which military chief carries a briefcase of minerals?’ To me, it resembled a big branded store, the place a supervisor appears to be like on as a shopkeeper enthusiastically presents a shiny merchandise to a buyer.”
Khan questioned the official capability and authorized foundation of the act, calling it a show of dictatorship and arguing that it can’t be thought-about a democracy, suggesting it amounted to contempt of parliament.
What joke . In what capability the Military Chief is carrying minerals in a short case? Asks Aimal Wali Khan of ANP pic.twitter.com/mYhzWbnFnV — Fakhar Ur Rehman (@Fakharrehman01) October 1, 2025
Earlier, Khan in contrast Munir displaying uncommon earth minerals to Trump to a show in a high-end designer retailer, saying the picture completely mirrored the character of the people concerned.
An elite designer store ( a newly established). The image defines the characters. pic.twitter.com/qX9hFg9DkZ — Aimal Wali Khan (@AimalWali) September 28, 2025
This was Basic Asim Munir’s third go to to the USA, coinciding with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s go to to Washington for the eightieth United Nations Basic Meeting session. On September 25, Munir and Sharif met US President Donald Trump on the White Home in a gathering that lasted roughly 90 minutes, additionally attended by US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Throughout this go to, Munir introduced uncommon earth minerals to Trump as a part of an effort to draw American funding and scale back Pakistan’s reliance on Chinese language mineral provide chains. The go to intently adopted the signing of a USD 500 million deal between Pakistan’s Frontier Works Organisation and Missouri-based US firm Strategic Metals to construct a poly-metallic refinery.