This is CBS I Am The World. I'm John Batch with my two colleagues, Bill Rodger of the

Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. And Hussein O'Connor from Ram Batchetter from

Pakistan to the United States, now at the Hudson Institute. Mr. Ambassador, you mentioned

that Imran Khan, you spoke of how Imran Khan did not oppose the Doha agreement in February

of 2020. Here we are more than three years later. And Imran Khan, while no longer premier

of Pakistan, is campaigning to return to that post, apparently undermining a good deal

of credibility for the Sharif government, always in and out of the news. Can we generalize

what Imran Khan's opinion is of Afghanistan today, given the conflict along the border,

given the disrepair of the nation, what would his policy be, presuming he's successful

in returning to the premiership? Imran Khan has repeatedly expressed the view that

Afghanistan is better off under the Taliban, because the Taliban know how to keep the peace,

and because the Taliban represent more of Iran culture, and then the government, the Republican

government, that the Americans had helped keep in power. So if he ever returns to power,

he will definitely continue to support the Taliban much more vocally. And then the

weak civilian government does right now, as far as the Pakistan military and the intelligence

services are concerned, they have had a long, overly simplified strategic paradigm in

which the only real threat to Pakistan comes from India. And in their calculus, the Taliban

were the left-to-reval in terms of whatever sort of blowback they might have for Pakistan

itself, their view of thinking is at least it is not pro-India elements that are in charge

in Afghanistan. So in that sense, Pakistan is a bit lost to anyone who wants to pay

attention to Afghanistan again. But let me say one more thing, that the reason why we

are where we are in case of Afghanistan is because of the overall attitude in the United

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