This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, April 14th, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

A new Prime Minister is elected in Pakistan amid largely unsupported claims of U.S. meddling.

Cato's Saharkan details what the U.S. Pakistan relationship

might look like going forward.

I think a lot of Americans really haven't been following the goings on in Pakistan for, well, probably

since Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces there.

You know, how has the government changed in that time up to the present?

So, Pakistan has sort of been in its democratic wave right now since 2008,

when the Osama bin Laden raid had happened that was the first

democratically elected government and since then we've Pakistan has had two more

so Imran Khan's government was the third government and he just on Saturday got ousted by Parliament with a no confidence vote.

Who is Shabashirif?

So Shabashirif is the leader of the opposition and the opposition party is the Pakistan Muslim League.

He's also the brother of Navas Shirif who was the Prime Minister of Pakistan three times but is now banned from

running for public office because of corruption charges and he currently lives in

a very cushy apartment in London.

And Shabashirif has been his brother in politics

with him side by side.

He was the chief minister of Punjab for a while and he's been leading the Muslim League ever since

Navaschii got ousted. What should Americans take from Immerman Khan's claim

that the US meddled in Pakistani affairs and essentially orchestrated his ouster.

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