Based on a series of tweets by the American blogger after going live with her claims, she had gone to the Interior Minister's home in 2011, under the impression that she would meet him about her visa status. There, according to Ritchie, she was given “flowers/ a drugged drink”.
The blogger further tweeted that she had tried to bring this to the attention of the US embassy in Islamabad at that time, but due to the “fluid” situation and “complex” relations between the US and Pakistan at that time, the response was “less than adequate”.
Cynthia Ritchie has stated in her video that she will be happy to go into detail with the “appropriate, neutral investigative journalists” and that she “will be ready to meet any and all investigators, as is required by law, as early as next week.”
She has tweeted that she was encouraged to go public with her story by her fiance, who she met in Pakistan.
The blogger's claims come amid a series of tweets and accusations against various PPP leaders. She faces the possibility of legal action by the PPP after her recent allegations against slain former PPP leader Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. She has also pledged to bring allegations against the PML-N, tweeting: