Pakistan’s vote of no Khanfidence

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

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Pakistan’s prime minister was ousted. He blames the US. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	174 members have recorded their votes in favor of the resolution.
0:08.1	Over the weekend, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan lost his job.
0:12.5	The country's parliament held a vote of no confidence despite his fervent attempts to
0:16.8	stop it.
0:17.8	The new Prime Minister, Shabaz Sharif, the brother of a three-time former Prime Minister
0:33.7	of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif and himself a three-time former Chief Minister of Punjab.
0:40.9	Experience and family connections.
0:42.8	The story of how he got into office and how Imran Khan was removed.
0:55.7	The
1:25.2	future
1:48.6	change
2:09.2	Madiha Afsal is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.
2:12.5	She's been watching Pakistan carefully like a lot of people because a little over a week
2:17.2	ago.
2:18.2	Then Prime Minister Imran Khan gave a speech before a cheering crowd.
2:24.4	He was holding two microphones and he was speaking in earnest.
2:34.1	At one point he used the words in English off the record.
2:42.7	Then he took a folded piece of paper out of his breast pocket and he made an allegation.
2:53.4	Madiha, what did he say?
2:55.8	Khan is claiming that the US is part of a conspiracy to oust him that the US wanted regime change
3:05.6	in Pakistan.
3:07.1	The letter he was waving around, he called it a threat letter.
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