German Ambassador questions PTI over ‘poor quality’ roads and people are not liking it

German Ambassador Martin Kobler has landed himself into a bit of trouble by criticizing the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for constructing poor quality yet expensive roads in comparison to a road financed by German promotional bank KfW.

Kobler shared a tweet in which he took selfie with the KfW funded road in Azakheel bala built by villagers. He says that the road, which is better quality than the ones construct by PTI also costs 60 percent less. The KfW financed road cost Rs4 million but PTI used Rs10 million to build similar road(s) but with poorer quality.

https://twitter.com/KoblerinPAK/status/1070259340869812224

Curious to know how PTI performed in its first 100 days? Watch the video below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjM98s9OB7k

While Kobler might have thought it was a good idea to promote development projects which are easier on the economy, Pakistanis do not share similar sentiments.

‘Aren’t you overstepping diplomatic norms?’

https://twitter.com/BushraGohar/status/1070557934483111936

Here is the reply from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)

https://twitter.com/infokpgovt/status/1070345477105827842

Here’s another one from KP govts official Twitter page

https://twitter.com/infokpgovt/status/1070346793198718976

‘It costs way more to have a professional team working than to have volunteers doing all the work’

https://twitter.com/kianiced50/status/1070263781530439681

‘How can you compare two different systems?’

https://twitter.com/shabazkn/status/1070403477375979520

‘Public diplomacy suicide’

https://twitter.com/PublicPakistani/status/1070494217716359168

BUT WORRY NOT, THEY HAVE SQUASHED THE BEEF

https://twitter.com/omar_quraishi/status/1070624074894884864

Wait, WHAT? Biryani? Professional Builders?

https://twitter.com/shabirkam/status/1070672848031768577

But it has not at all been a total bad experience for the ambassador. He has also received support of many.

This for example

https://twitter.com/humair_rizvi/status/1070422487970664449

‘KP government is responsible’

https://twitter.com/qasimbirote/status/1070317773509812224

KP government accused of corruption

https://twitter.com/askazad/status/1070293953319235584

It sure was not a very diplomatic move on Kobler's part, but his meeting with Shah Mehmood Qureshi went fine. All is well that ends well?

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