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2/2: #Afghanistan: #Pakistan: Transnational threat Talibam al Qaeda, ISIS-K. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute.

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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2/2: #Afghanistan: #Pakistan: Transnational threat Talibam al Qaeda, ISIS-K. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/biden-white-houses-deadly-afghanistan-withdrawal-symptoms-lets-foes-flourish/


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I'm John Batsworth, my colleague, Susaina Kahnay of the Hudson Institute,

0:31.0

Bill Raju of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

0:34.0

Mr. Ambassador, there is a headline from Pakistan that got my attention immediately

0:39.0

about the troubles being so bad that a takeover is possible.

0:45.0

Pakistan crisis deep enough to attract military takeover.

0:49.0

The former Prime Minister Abbasay, is this something that has been true for some time?

0:55.0

Or is it with the failure of the government to respond to the food shortage,

1:02.0

to the flooding, to the deaths, and also to Imran Khan?

1:06.0

Has that created conditions that did not exist before all those catastrophes?

1:11.0

Historically, the Pakistan Army has got involved directly in politics.

1:16.0

It's always involved indirectly, but directly involved in politics and has taken over.

1:21.0

Only when it has been able to make the case, the politicians are unable to resolve things among themselves.

1:27.0

Imran Khan, zero-sum game in which he says that only he represents the people,

1:34.0

that his opponents are crooks and traitors, and should be legally not allowed to run.

1:39.0

And if they are allowed to run and they're an election, which he loses,

1:43.0

he will not accept the result, that creates the zero-sum game that usually has resulted in the military's intervention.

1:52.0

At the same time, Pakistan has a huge economic crisis.

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