#Pakistan: The relentless Imran Khan. Arif Rafiq, GlobelyNews.com
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
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#Pakistan: The relentless Imran Khan. Arif Rafiq, GlobelyNews.com
https://globelynews.com/south-asia/pakistans-farcical-election/
1900 Karachi Plague Hospital
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| 0:00.0 | Democracy, Pakistan. The election is scheduled early February and the arrayed |
| 0:11.3 | of forces include the army, very powerful, and the arrayed forces include the army very powerful and the Sharif family. |
| 0:15.7 | Noire Sharif has returned from self-imposed exile of many years from London and is now a |
| 0:21.3 | prominent candidate again for the premiership which he has held before |
| 0:25.8 | and his brother held the premiership this last year before the election was called. |
| 0:29.7 | However, in the Economist magazine, the former Prime Minister Imran Khan, a world famous sportsman, |
| 0:37.8 | and now a beleaguered and detained former Prime Minister, makes allegations in the economists that are striking about |
| 0:45.8 | why he was removed from office or lost confidence of the Parliament and what he hopes to achieve |
| 0:52.4 | by regaining his premiership when and if. |
| 0:56.0 | I welcome Ara Fique of Globally News to help me through these allegations in the Economist magazine by Imran Khan, former Prime Minister. |
| 1:05.6 | Erfa, very good evening to you. Thank you very much. The chief charge that I see here that has |
| 1:12.1 | bite in Pakistan is that he lost power because the US ordered the military |
| 1:18.8 | or the forces in the parliament to remove him. |
| 1:23.0 | Why does he make that allegation? |
| 1:24.7 | What basis does he have for that allegation? |
| 1:27.5 | Such a remark cannot be proved or disproved one way. |
| 1:30.8 | So is this a popular allegation that the US did it good evening to you |
| 1:36.0 | hi John thank you for having me on yes I think it's widely held in Pakistan that the US played some sort of |
| 1:41.3 | role in Hans Austuster from power in April |
| 1:44.1 | 2022. Han supporters and Khan himself point toward a memo, a diplomatic cable |
| 1:51.9 | known as a cipher in which the box any ambassador, the then |
| 1:56.4 | box any ambassador to the US, recounts a meeting with a senior State Department official |
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