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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bats with my colleagues, Susanna Kahn, a former ambassador

from Pakistan to the United States, now at the Hudson Institute, and Bill Rajo, the foundation

for the defensive democracies, a senior fellow who keeps a long-word journal about the conflict

with Al-Qaeda, ISIS and other G-Hotters. Mr. Ambassador, Imran Kahn in the news again.

And I read just the summary of what he said in these last 24 or 48 hours. Imran Kahn

assailed the PDM government for bringing the country to the cusp of default and accused

the media of turning a blind eye towards economic matters and instead focusing on a wristwatch,

which he said was rightfully his to sell or do whatever I want to with it. This combines

identity politics of Imran Kahn. I'm a great cricket player who was deprived of my post

as Prime Minister by the United States conspiring and a man who speaks to the economic

plight of Pakistan in general. Is he more successful than ever or is this a man crying in the

wilderness? Mr. Ambassador. Look, Imran Kahn is spectacle like, say, for example, Donald Trump

has become in the United States. The moment when he represented serious politics, I think

is passed because he won the election. He came into office. He continued to play to grievances

that he had nurtured for winning the election well into government, did not deliver. The

economic crisis he's assailing right now was created by his government, not by the new

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