This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, July 27th, 2018. I'm Caleb Brown.

The party of Imram Khan has won elections in Pakistan and that would make

Mr Khan the new Prime Minister. How will that affect relations with the United

States and will Pakistan become a more or less reliable partner in the region?

Kito Institute Sahar Khan, no relation. more or less reliable partner in the region.

Cato Institute Sahar Khan, no relation, explains.

What is the political environment

into which Mr. Khan is walking?

So the political environment is actually pretty volatile, the one that he's just

walked into. There has been a lot of violence leading up to the election. This is

probably one of the most violent elections that Pakistan has experienced.

There have been a great deal of allegation of military interference in the elections.

And of course, there's charges of corruption and charges of rigging, which is basically, you know,

questions the fairness and the fairness of the elections.

So the environment is pretty volatile that he's walked into.

All right, so what are the promises that Mr. Khan has made

and what, you know, among those promises,

what's possible?

So, you know, this is the first time that he has been elected. This has

been like a 20-year journey so I think he's been dreaming of this moment for a long time and

his speech, his victory speech sort of was reflective of that it was very hopeful he

started off by saying that he was sorry for the lives that have been lost due to

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