Pakistan Ambassador Opens Up

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on Deconstructed, Munir Akram, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, joins Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain to discuss a wide array of topics, including the escalating conflict in Yemen and Israel’s attacks on Palestine. Akram also discusses the complicated relationships between Pakistan and some of its neighbors, including India, China, and Iran, as well as Pakistan's own internal instability and challenges as it nears elections.

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0:39.7	Mertasa Hussein, my colleague at The Intercept, and my co-author on a number of pieces about
0:45.8	Pakistan and it's collapsing democracy over the last couple of years.
0:49.8	Maz and I are going to be joined by Munir Akram who is the permanent UN
0:54.3	representative for Pakistan at the United Nations. He's been in that office
0:58.4	since 2019 so he actually straddled Imran Khan who was you know ousted with the encouragement of the
1:05.6	U.S. State Department leading to the current caretaker government ahead of
1:09.9	upcoming elections.
1:11.2	Mercizal what do you think that the ambassador wanted to do an interview with the
1:15.3	Intercept?
1:16.3	You know, that's a really good question.
1:17.3	I was wondering that myself at first, but I think that a lot of it is due to the fact that
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