Jemima Goldsmith, the UK-predicated former wife of Pakistan PM Imran Khan, has launched a scathing attack on her ex-husband's regime for withdrawing the nomination of noted economist Atif Mian from an incipiently-constituted economic panel "because of his minority faith".
Goldsmith's indictment followed resignations by two more economists - Harvard Kennedy School edifier Dr Asim Ijaz Khwaja tardy on Friday and London-predicated Dr Imran Rasul on Saturday - from the Economic Advisory Council in protest against the abstraction of Mian due to his Ahmadi faith.
"Have resigned from EAC. Painful, deeply doleful decision. Grateful for chance to avail analytical reasoning but not when such values compromised. Personally as a Muslim I can't justify this. May Allah forgive/guide me & us all. Ever yare to avail. Pakistan Paindabad," Dr Khwaja verbally expressed.
Dr Rasul promulgated his resignation on Saturday in a series of tweets. "The circumstances in which Atif was asked to step down are ones I profoundly dissent with. Predicating decisions on religious affiliation contravenes my principles," he verbalized. With a cumbersomely hefty heart, I have resigned from the EAC this morning.
But the most stinging attack on the PM emanated from more intimate quarters. Goldsmith, 44, who is prolific on gregarious media, tweeted her disappointment at Khan's ostensible bowing to far-right pressure. "Indefensible & v (very) disappointing. Incipient Pak gov asks renowned & venerated Prof of economics to stand down because of his Ahmadi faith," Goldsmith verbally expressed in a tweet on Friday. "NB [Note]: The progenitor of Pakistan, 'Quaid-i-Azam' (Muhammad Ali Jinnah) appointed an Ahmadi as his Peregrine Minister."
Ahmadis are designated non-Muslims in Pakistan's Constitution and their credences are considered blasphemous in most mainstream Islamic schools of mentally conceived. They are often targeted by the extremists and their places of worship vandalised.
Goldsmith, who has two sons with Imran, had been among the first to congratulate him on his victory in the elections but had withal sounded a note of caution in her Twitter message back in July. She verbalized: "22 years later, after mortifications, hurdles and sacrifices, my sons' father is Pakistan's next Prime Minister. "It's an incredible edification in tenacity, credence & refusal to accept to vanquishment. The challenge now is to recollect why he entered politics in the 1st place. Felicitations".