naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoPakistan court jails ex-PM Imran Khan for 10 years days ahead of pollswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down11
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minus-squareralphio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-22 years agoTo be clear since it seems like Pakistan is trying to re-muddy the waters here, the cable is authentic. It does show that the US pressured them to jail Khan. https://theintercept.com/2023/08/16/imran-khan-cable-pakistan-us/ Edit: my bad I meant the US pressured the military to remove him from office.
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoYeah can’t wait for Blinken to say this is a functioning democracy while I get to watch PTI, the former populist, take its last breath.
To be clear since it seems like Pakistan is trying to re-muddy the waters here, the cable is authentic. It does show that the US pressured them to jail Khan. https://theintercept.com/2023/08/16/imran-khan-cable-pakistan-us/
Edit: my bad I meant the US pressured the military to remove him from office.
Yeah can’t wait for Blinken to say this is a functioning democracy while I get to watch PTI, the former populist, take its last breath.