Watch: Food will be served soon, says Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif as man interrupts his speech
PM Sharif was in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to lay the foundation stones of different infrastructure projects. (Photo: India Today)
After Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was interrupted during his speech on Monday (December 27), he said: "Please sit down...food will be served soon." The video, that was first circulated by Pakistan News channel PTV news, has now gone viral on social media.
❓🍬Where is the Food, Lebowski? #Pakistan's PM was interrupted by a desperately hungry man who demanded snacks be served right away.
— Koustuv 🇮🇳 🧭 (@srdmk01) December 27, 2022
However, Shehbaz Sharif remained composed and responded with a sense of humor, saying "Please sit down, the food will be served soon." pic.twitter.com/6mqwiyDAN7
What happened: Sharif was talking about the development projects for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region during one of his rallies when a member of the audience stood up and shouted. The PM retorted: "Please sit down, the food will be served soon", and then went ahead with his speech.
PM Sharif was in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to lay the foundation stones of different uplift communication, road, hydel, and power infrastructure projects, Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Sharif criticises PTI: Sharif also criticised the provincial government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) over its policies in the region. He sarcastically referred that the PTI provincial government always talked about the introduction of an efficient system, but the people had witnessed the crumbling of that system whereas the government's blunders in this regard could not be neglected, reported the Associated Press of Pakistan.
Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Haji Ghulam Ali, Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, Advisor to the PM on Political Affairs Engineer Amir Muqam, Amir of Jammiat-e-Ulema Islam-F Maulana Fazlur Rehman, and a large number of people were present during the rally.