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| The Overthrow and Incarceration of Imran Khan and His Supporters Is Extraordinary |
| 2023-08-15 |
| [SavageMinds] Imran Khan was last week sentenced to three years in prison—and a five year ban from politics—for alleged embezzlement of official gifts. This follows his removal as Prime Minister in a CIA engineered coup, and a vicious campaign of violence and imprisonment against Khan and his supporters. It is currently illegal in Pakistan to publish or broadcast about Khan or the thousands of new political prisoners incarcerated in appalling conditions. There have been no protests from the UK or US governments. Imran Khan is almost certainly the least corrupt senior politician in Pakistan’s history—I admit that is not a high bar. Pakistan’s politics are, to an extent not sufficiently understood in the west, literally feudal. Two dynasties, the Sharifs and the Bhuttos, have alternated in power, in a sometimes deadly rivalry, punctuated by periods of more open military rule. |
| Posted by:Harcourt Tholuse6841 |
| #5 I remember one day a Pakistani couple was visiting us. I had told my wife one day that Banezir Bhutto was pretty but really just a thieve from a family of thieves. To my surprise and dismay,my wife repeated my opinion to our guests. I swallowed hard figuring they might be offended. Instead they said, 'yes that is true'. I found out later they favored Pervez Musharraf who was probably less corrupt than Khan and under whose leadership the Pakistan economy actually did pretty well. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-08-15 16:02 |
| #4 Mr. Khan, elected on his former status a a cricket hero, is not smart enough to be corrupt. Truly it is said of him that he has more hair than brains. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-08-15 15:45 |
| #3 Who do they think they are DoJ? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-08-15 13:15 |
| #2 Imran Khan is almost certainly the least corrupt senior politician in Pakistan’s history—I admit that is not a high bar. - That's my favorite sentence of this piece. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-08-15 13:04 |
| #1 Trump indicted out of Georgia probe into alleged efforts to overturn 2020 election |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-15 00:16 |