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    Default Pakistan: Imran Khan jailed for 14 years

    This has been going on for a few days but no one seems to have posted it.


    The US seems to have gone completely insane, if this was supposed to be the start of dismantling the BRICS countries it's massively back fired !

    They obviously have no idea what kind of man Imran Khan is or what kind of following he has ......


    Quote Imran Khan takes on America

    The government in Pakistan has alleged that Sunday's no-confidence motion to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan from power was masterminded in Washington

    After a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan and loss of credibility over Ukraine, the era of US unipolarity seems to be entering its terminal phase, marked by lashing out ferociously in all directions. The most recent of these offensives occurred last week when the government of Pakistan alleged that Washington was trying to engineer regime change in Islamabad.

    This time the US was caught red handed. The claim was not made via a leak or a fringe observer, but by the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, himself. While the US State Department has denied any involvement, the political drama has only just begun.

    Emerging from a crucial meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbors, China’s top diplomat took a public whack at Washington’s behavior. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China will not allow the US to drag smaller nations into conflict and sharply rebuked the ‘US Cold War mentality.’ Beijing is determined not to allow the US to steal Pakistan from its inner circle of vital Asian partners that today include Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, and others.

    On Wednesday, when a coalition partner of the governing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) announced its seven members would switch to the opposition, Khan essentially lost his majority in the National Assembly, consisting of 342 parliamentarians. More than a dozen of his party members also threatened to cross the political aisle.

    But the Pakistani opposition had mistakenly believed that as soon as they showed their required numerical majority in the parliament, the prime minister would either step down or resign. But that is not what appears to be happening.

    Instead, in the next 24 hours, the voting will begin in parliament to count the actual numbers. Many analysts see this as the end of the Khan government in Pakistan; others believe the prime minister’s hold on power will be consolidated and the opposition and their foreign underwriters will suffer a permanent blow.

    If the courts entertain the government’s petition to look into the foreign meddling and bribery cases, then Khan may have more time to develop a full court reaction. In just a few days, Khan has already displayed a modest demonstration of his street power. The mood and sentiment across the social media spectrum, as of now, is lopsidedly in favor of the prime minister. Large segments of the public has loudly rallied around him as the spokesman of their aspirations, while opposition party leaders are being characterized as corrupt individuals who want to topple an elected government.

    The country’s main opposition parties are the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), both dynastic groups that ruled for decades until Khan came along with his campaign promises to root out the rampant corruption and cronyism that has plagued Pakistani politics for years.

    The letter

    Millions of Pakistanis poured out to see PM Khan speak on 27 March, when he alleged that “foreign powers are engineering a regime change in Pakistan.” Waving a letter drawn from his coat pocket, Khan threatened to reveal direct, written threats to Pakistan and himself.

    Top cabinet members [Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives] Asad Umar and [Minister of Information] Fawad Chaudhry held a joint press conference where they revealed further details of this controversial letter. Khan then invited several members of his cabinet, media and the Pakistani security community to view the document first hand.

    Government opponents dismissed Khan’s allegations outright, amidst an enormous amount of hubris and posturing soon to follow. Pakistani opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif (an aspirant for the prime minister position) proclaimed that he will jump ship and join Imran Khan if the letter is real and the PM was speaking truthfully. Similarly, prominent anti-establishment TV anchor Saleem Safi said that if the letter were real, he would retire from his position and drop out of media altogether.

    But within hours, a mysterious petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) with the Chief Justice Islamabad Athar Minallah issuing a legal opinion that Imran Khan may not share this letter in public because of his secrecy oath. Such a swift ruling could not have come from Pakistan’s highest judicial authority about a fake letter, surely?

    The next day, the country’s National Security Committee (NSC) convened for a meeting. In attendance were Pakistan’s prime minister, the army chief, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and naval chiefs, the National Security Advisor (NSA), and several other important officials.

    Opposition members boycotted the meeting, but participants took a unanimous decision to reprimand the United States for its actions and ensure that Pakistan would not allow US authorities off the hook so easily. Subsequently, the Foreign Office called the acting US ambassador and reprimanded him – none of which could have conceivably been done on the pretext of a false letter."

    Read the rest at https://thecradle.co/Article/analysis/8673

    From telegram "Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan 🇵🇰 confirms it was Donald Lu, the United States 🇺🇸 Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs who met with Pakistani embassy officials and conveyed Joe Biden-headed NSC’s demand for a regime change in Pakistan"

    "Government sources say they intend to immediately purse Article 6 (High Treason) proceedings against those involved in the foreign regime change operations. "


    There is a video of a rally in support of IK on tik tok & telegram, you have never seen so many people in one camera shot !

    Needless to say the Chinese have come out in strong support of Pakistan.

    Maybe the worlds number one bully is about to learn a lesson ? The Nitwits at the helm certainly need one.

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    Default Re: Pakistan: Imran Khan jailed for 14 years

    Yes, fascinating, and these developments were discussed quite a few times in recent videos posted by The Duran, Alex Christoforou, and Alexander Mercouris. I've been listening to every one of those avidly, but didn't post them all on the Ukraine/WW3 thread otherwise there'd just be TMI (Too Much Information).

    Some reading this may not know that Imran Khan was the Pakistani cricket captain (and a world-class cricketer, too), and was very much of a national hero even before he entered politics. And cricket is Pakistan's national sport, as it is in India. So that's no small thing.

    When the general election is held in 90 days' time, he'll be overwhelmingly re-elected... and from here on, because of the US's attempted clumsy interference, his support will only increase.

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Yes, fascinating, and these developments were discussed quite a few times in recent videos posted by The Duran, Alex Christoforou, and Alexander Mercouris. I've been listening to every one of those avidly, but didn't post them all on the Ukraine/WW3 thread otherwise there'd just be TMI (Too Much Information).

    Some reading this may not know that Imran Khan was the Pakistani cricket captain (and a world-class cricketer, too), and was very much of a national hero even before he entered politics. And cricket is Pakistan's national sport, as it is in India. So that's no small thing.

    When the general election is held in 90 days' time, he'll be overwhelmingly re-elected... and from here on, because of the US's attempted clumsy interference, his support will only increase.
    Yup the Americans don't know anything about Cricket, it's a very unusual sport, not least because being a Gentleman above & before all else is paramount, the Pakistanis get this more that most, HK was a defacto statesman before he ever stood for office.

    The US has no idea how stupid this move is.

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    It's not great for optics having the communist Chinese dictatorship as your number one international backer.

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    Quote Posted by Spiral (here)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Yes, fascinating, and these developments were discussed quite a few times in recent videos posted by The Duran, Alex Christoforou, and Alexander Mercouris. I've been listening to every one of those avidly, but didn't post them all on the Ukraine/WW3 thread otherwise there'd just be TMI (Too Much Information).

    Some reading this may not know that Imran Khan was the Pakistani cricket captain (and a world-class cricketer, too), and was very much of a national hero even before he entered politics. And cricket is Pakistan's national sport, as it is in India. So that's no small thing.

    When the general election is held in 90 days' time, he'll be overwhelmingly re-elected... and from here on, because of the US's attempted clumsy interference, his support will only increase.
    Yup the Americans don't know anything about Cricket, it's a very unusual sport, not least because being a Gentleman above & before all else is paramount, the Pakistanis get this more that most, HK was a defacto statesman before he ever stood for office.

    The US has no idea how stupid this move is.
    Americans can't understand a cricket match can go on for five days and there be no result

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    Two serious points about Imran Khan having been the Pakistani cricket captain:
    • Cricket (unlike soccer) is often a game of cunning and strategy (it's often compared to chess) — and yes, sometimes spread out over 5 long days. Besides his skill and flair with the the bat and the ball, Imran as captain was very, very good at that. That ability can absolutely be transferred on to other strategic situations.
    • He was regarded as a national hero — and still is.

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    Quote Posted by Justplain (here)
    It's not great for optics having the communist Chinese dictatorship as your number one international backer.
    It depends on which side of the lens you are actually looking.

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    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
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    It's not great for optics having the communist Chinese dictatorship as your number one international backer.
    It depends on which side of the lens you are actually looking.
    The view through my own lens, based on everything I believe I know and understand, is that I'm rooting for the world to become multipolar rather than unipolar.

    If that means countries like Pakistan allying themselves with India, Russia and China, then that feels like good counter-NWO news to me.

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    Yes,the US government is insane. Yet all governments are. In most cases.

    Yet at the same time, to know about A simple to understanding of any game is not so important at this time.

    We are all being bent over, so to say, right now.

    There are so many folks in all countrys that have no clue as to what is going on right now, as far as the political agenda goes.

    So I guess The ones that do,would be excellent cricket captain also.

    Love all.

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    The view through my own lens, based on everything I believe I know and understand, is that I'm rooting for the world to become multipolar rather than unipolar.

    If that means countries like Pakistan allying themselves with India, Russia and China, then that feels like good counter-NWO news to me.
    That is pretty much how I see it, even though it is "my system" that is the "unipole", it simply must be annihilated.

    "Pakistan" is about as artificial of a country as there could be, it was made to make problems.

    Regardless, people live there, and all they need to do is drop a Jihadist mentality against their Hindu neighbors and vice-versa, and there would not be much need to live under red alert.

    Since the U. S. gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban, you know that if they had usurped Mr. Khan, they would have returned it to whatever was left of his party around 2040.

    Now that he has something in common with Turkey, that makes a large, continuous swath of mid eastern countries that would like for the U. S. to utterly exit the region. Where are they holding out? Babylon??

    I mean that physically is the ongoing U. S. base out there right?

    Wait for the mad comeback of O "Assad must go" Bama?

    The Pakistan government may be insane and if so that is their problem. It is well known to be moronic that you do not go around implying "regime change" to someone's country even if it is just an idea. The Americans around me do not really know how to connect "words" to their actual meaning, as if everything were ideas for screenplays. Such as "Pak" is just a type of costume, and that guy gets killed in Scene Three, and then you just forget about it. Then half of the food you eat is produced by imaginary slave labor. How convenient! What kind of a job was that guy doing? State Department? Oh. We should never have allowed this, it needs to be totally deleted very badly. The Department. If it is still in place by the next election, you are going to need a regime change. I can say that here. It's this place. I have the ability to go on forever about how many taxes you shouldn't pay and how many governments you don't need. So far, this has not affected anything.

    I guess I am glad there was not another new chaotic slaughter.

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Yes, fascinating, and these developments were discussed quite a few times in recent videos posted by The Duran, Alex Christoforou, and Alexander Mercouris. I've been listening to every one of those avidly, but didn't post them all on the Ukraine/WW3 thread otherwise there'd just be TMI (Too Much Information).

    Some reading this may not know that Imran Khan was the Pakistani cricket captain (and a world-class cricketer, too), and was very much of a national hero even before he entered politics. And cricket is Pakistan's national sport, as it is in India. So that's no small thing.

    When the general election is held in 90 days' time, he'll be overwhelmingly re-elected... and from here on, because of the US's attempted clumsy interference, his support will only increase.
    Absolutely Bill, I recall Imran Khan's cricket career, he was a remarkable player, highly respected (and feared) by the English side: there is zero chance his enormous reputation could so easily be tarnished by these Washington millennial political 'wiz kids' - they have lost all perspective!

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    Well, here's bad news — in my opinion. The Pakistani Supreme Court has reversed the decision not to hold a vote of no confidence, which will now take place. Alexander Mercouris reports on this in some detail, starting at 29:09 in this new update.


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    https://twitter.com/SouthAsiaIndex/s...58439285768197



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    Bad news.

    Former cricketer Imran Khan is OUT as Pakistani PM after losing late-night no-confidence vote from MPs:
    Political crisis drags country to the brink of chaos as rival groups clash in the streets following decision

    Imran Khan is dramatically ousted from office in late night cull after no-confidence vote in parliament

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    Since Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s hanging all Pakistani politicians who wanted to stay an independent course have been removed. With the world-wide movement for de-unipolarising the world, the Empire of Unicultural Evil needs to block the constitution of a Southern flank to the “Eurasian landmass”, reaching from Syria over Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to Bangladesh so as to allow Russia and China a friendly access to the Indian Ocean and Eastern Africa. I pray that the Indian leaders will be wise and refrain from shortsightedly exploiting unrest in Pakistan, instead exerting a moderating influence.

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    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
    I pray that the Indian leaders will be wise and refrain from shortsightedly exploiting unrest in Pakistan, instead exerting a moderating influence.
    I do too. I am sure this is entirely coincidental and unrelated:

    Biden, Modi to speak as US presses for hard line on Russia


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    Quote President Joe Biden is set to speak with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday as he presses world leaders to take a hard line against Russia's Ukraine invasion.

    India's neutral stance in the war has raised concerns in Washington and earned praise from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who lauded India this month for judging “the situation in its entirety, not just in a one-sided way.”

    ...In the virtual meeting, Biden will talk about the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine “and mitigating its destabilizing impact on global food supply and commodity markets,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Sunday.

    They'll discuss “strengthening the global economy, and upholding a free, open, rules-based international order to bolster security, democracy, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific," she said...

    India continues to purchase Russian energy supplies, despite pressure from Western countries to avoid buying Russian oil and gas. The U.S. has also considered sanctions on India for its recent purchase of advanced Russian air defense systems.

    Last month, the state-run Indian Oil Corp. bought 3 million barrels of crude from Russia to secure its needs, resisting entreaties from the West to avoid such purchases...
    If Modi does not cooperate, will he too, find himself facing a "Vote of No Confidence" and be ousted?

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    Huge protests in Pakistan now.
    Mass protests in Pakistan against ‘imported’ government

    Ex-PM Imran Khan has said the country is headed for a new “freedom struggle”, blasting his ouster as a “US-backed regime change”



    Massive demonstrations rocked multiple Pakistani cities, including the country’s capital of Islamabad, on Sunday, with thousands taking to the streets to express their support to the deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan. He was ousted by the country’s parliament in a successful no-confidence vote on Saturday. Khan blasted the vote as a foreign-backed regime change operation.

    “Never have such crowds come out so spontaneously and in such numbers in our history, rejecting the imported govt led by crooks,” Khan said on Twitter, sharing footage of the protests.

    https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/sta...32489464041473


    The protests were spearheaded by Khan’s PTI party, which called upon its members and supporters to take to the streets across the country.

    https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/stat...06282387292161


    Earlier in the day, Khan reiterated his allegations against the US, blaming his ouster on Washington and branding it a “regime change” operation aimed at bringing “into power a coterie of pliable crooks all out on bail.”

    The former PM has also said the country was entering a new period of “freedom struggle” with the Pakistani people protecting “sovereignty and democracy” from a “foreign conspiracy of regime change.”

    Previously, the politician claimed to have a recording obtained from the Pakistani ambassador in Washington proving the allegations. The US had firmly rejected such allegations, denying any involvement into the Pakistani events.

    Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a vote of no-confidence against Khan with 176 lawmakers out of 342 voting for the move to end his office term early. The PTI party effectively lost its parliamentary majority back in March, after seven MPs from its coalition party defected and joined the ranks of the opposition. Pakistan’s parliament is set to hold a vote to pick a new PM on Monday.

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    Know little about Pakistan, but I always hear some Pakistani friends tell me about "中巴友谊万岁“ Long live China-Pakistan friendship.

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    Thanks — this is a long article, very hard to copy and embed here, but well worth reading for anyone following this closely.


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