This interview to an American media outlet is yet another manoeuvre by Imran Khan in his efforts to return to power by any means necessary. After asking for help from American Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Khan has now appealed directly to the United States to intervene in Pakistan's politics.
A clip of the interview given by Imran Khan to PBS News Hour has gone viral on social media, in which he appears to be appealing to the US to intervene in Pakistan's internal affairs, only to help him and take his side against the current government and the military establishment.
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In the interview, Geoff Bennett of PBS asked Khan what kind of help he expected from the United States now, since he himself in the accused the United States of interfering in the country's affairs, an allusion to Khan's narrative of America supporting the "regime change conspiracy" to topple his government in April 2022.
At this, Imran Khan said that I want America to simply follow its "professed values" like it talks about morality in the whole world, and he wants the US to say that it stands with the constitution and rule of law, with human rights and against state violence.
Some netizens were quick to point out Khan's hypocrisy in calling the US to intervene in Pakistan's sovereign politics to his favour, while urging the world to not object over human rights violations by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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It should be noted that on May 20, PTI Chairman Imran Khan's spoke with US Congresswoman Maxine Moore Waters, representing California's 43rd District and also the ranking member of the US Congress' financial services committee, on the virtual platform Zoom. The conversation, in which Khan asked the Congresswoman for help, was leaked to the public.
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For long, Imran Khan has been knocking on America's door for help, despite spreading chaos across the country for the better part of the last thirteen months. Khan routinely castigated America for being behind a supposed 'regime change conspiracy'. The controversial former Pakistani premier based his assumption of alleged US involvement in his constitutional removal from office on a diplomatic cipher that he conveniently used to gain political mileage, by himself exploiting the anti-American sentiments of the Pakistan masses.
In his conversation with Congresswoman Waters, Khan portrayed the worst of Pakistan and insulted the Pakistan army and the government. Imran Khan told Maxine Waters that the Pakistan army and its intelligence agencies are "very influential and powerful here in Pakistan".
Imran Khan blamed former army chief Gen (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa for his own political failures, and for the success of the no-confidence motion against him. Khan said that the former army chief conspired with the incumbent PDM government to remove his PTI regime from power.
Chairman PTI Imran Khan held the Pakistan Army and the current ruling coalition responsible for the November 2022 assassination attack on him, and said, "my life is in danger because of the current military establishment and government. I was shot."
Claiming to be the most popular leader of Pakistan, former premier Imran Khan told the US Congresswoman that "99% of Pakistan is with me". Khan added, "Pakistan is passing through the most critical period in history," before he begged the Congresswoman to "please raise your voice in my favor".
The PTI chief said his party was facing the "worst crackdown" and that no democratic party had faced such a crackdown in the history of the country, conveniently forgetting the draconian actions he and his government took against their political opposition, which is in the government now.
Imran Khan can be heard cajoling Congresswoman Waters' into issuing a statement in his favour. "We just want a statement highlighting this crackdown and it will really help us when someone like you speaks up there will be a lot of noise here," Khan told the Congresswoman.
Earlier on May 26, another US Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas' 18th District, issued a Twitter statement over her human rights concerns in Pakistan.
https://twitter.com/JacksonLeeTX18/status/1662148938093281282