This is John Bachelor, the Year of Democracy. 65 Democratic Elections in 2024, Pakistan,

early February, a dominant story in South Asia, and speaking with Hissaina County,

former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, now at the Hudson Institute,

looked very closely at Imran Khan, former Prime Minister, now detained, making allegations

in The Economist magazine about U.S. interference, permission to the military to remove him from office in some

to canary and now a new contest that his party the PTI is being blocked

routinely by says Mr Khan forces inside and outside of Pakistan chiefly to do with the army.

The ambassador says the army made you and the army broke you and that's the way politics works in Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif, the old prime minister who was broken by the army, he said at the time.

In 2017 and replaced by Imran Khan is now back to run again as Prime Minister.

This is all extremely important to the success of a very badly battered nation after flooding and

deeply in debt. South Asia, Pakistan, neighboring Afghanistan. Why it matters now is the election is imminent, the

direction is for recovery. However, there were assassination attempts and the Ambassador the St. the same economy comments on those

assassination attempts, remembering of course that there have been

candidates for the prime minister ship before who've died in explosions and

unexplained events in Pakistan. Right now the question is does Imran

can face violence in the event that he's successful in some fashion on the February 8th election?

Here's the ambassador to explain Imran Khan is the candidate and Asena Khani is explaining.

Well there was some, there was at least one attack that one knows about, somebody shot at him, but were the assassination

attempts or were they just random events that can be interpreted as assassination attempts.

I personally don't think that the Pakistani military

or the Pakistani intelligence service are so incompetent that they

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