(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. government arranged the removal of Pakistan’s former prime minister, Imran Khan, over his refusal to support the Ukraine war – according to a diplomatic cable seen by The Intercept.
The cable – called a “cypher,” transcribes a March 7 meeting arranged between the U.S. and Pakistani ambassadors. As The Intercept said in its report of August 9, “The diplomatic meeting came two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which launched as Khan was en route to Moscow, a visit that infuriated Washington.”
Five months later, Imran Khan was sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges.
Was Ukraine the reason?
Was this really about a mistimed visit to Moscow? According to The Intercept’s Richard Medhurst:
I’ve covered this story for over a year… what really angered the Americans was Khan’s visit to Moscow on the day the war started.
The U.S. took offense at… Pakistan’s refusal to blindly follow the West in condemning and sanctioning Russia.
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In a case with startling parallels to that of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, Medhurst describes Khan as Pakistan’s most popular politician – who would “very likely” win the upcoming elections, were he not hounded by Deep State lawfare.
In reality, Imran Khan was simply tending to his country’s needs: concluding a purchase of two million tons of wheat, and a gas deal with Russia.
Even before the war, he made clear that Pakistan would pursue a non-aligned foreign policy, equally taking up a neutral position on the Ukraine war.
The Intercept’s Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reported a speech made by Imran Khan to huge rally on March 6. The day before the meeting, Khan addressed a rally and responded directly to European calls that Pakistan rally behind Ukraine. “Are we your slaves?” Khan thundered to the crowd. “What do you think of us? That we are your slaves and that we will do whatever you ask of us?” he asked. “We are friends of Russia, and we are also friends of the United States. We are friends of China and Europe. We are not part of any alliance.”
What has outraged the Deep State is the assumption of national sovereignty – and opposition to their policy of permanent war.
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I’ve covered this story for over a year and everything Khan claimed has been confirmed yet again. I’ve said on numerous occasions that what really angered… pic.twitter.com/7Vja1uOz1U
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) August 10, 2023
Regime change on the agenda
The cable details a meeting between Asad Majeed Khan (Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States) and Donald Lu (Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs).According to The Intercept:
The diplomatic meeting came two weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which launched as Khan was en route to Moscow, a visit that infuriated Washington.
The U.S. not only conveyed its wishes to see Khan’s removal in the upcoming vote, but issued veiled threats of international isolation were he to remain.
It was made clear that Pakistan could be “forgiven” – if Khan were to go.
The message sparked outrage in the Pakistani government, whose foreign ministry issued a note of formal protest (known in diplomatic language as a démarche) in response. Khan chaired a meeting of the Pakistani National Security Council on March 31 to denounce “blatant interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan.”
On April 1, 2022, Khan himself denounced the U.S. measures to oust him on live television. As Voice of America recounted on April 1, 2022, “In what appeared to be a slip of tongue during the live telecast, the Pakistani leader named the U.S. as the origin of a ‘memo’ that he believes confirmed a ‘foreign conspiracy’ was behind the no-confidence vote due on Sunday.”
“They say they are angry with Pakistan… They say they will forgive Pakistan if Imran Khan loses a no-trust motion. But if the vote fails, Pakistan will have to face serious consequences,” Khan said, citing the text of the memo, which he has not made public.
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Ten days later he was removed from office on “corruption charges,” and a “no confidence” vote was set in motion.
Khan continued to protest against his removal at the behest of the Deep State, his repeated claims of foreign interference often dismissed as “ridiculous.”
He appeared on Sky News on May 30, 2022, as the process to remove him under a no-confidence vote proceeded. His claims to be the victim of U.S.-backed “regime change” were said to be without evidence.
“The people of this country want one thing – elections – they do not want a foreign imposed government where members of our party were bought by millions of dollars,” the former prime minister stated.
There is no such absence of evidence. Instead, there is the evidence of the absence of the very democracy this globalist regime claims to defend through regime change – and forever war.
Pattern recognition
The treatment of Khan recalls the orchestrated campaigns against any leader who emerges in the Western sphere to champion the cause of their own people – against the globalist agenda. As the Conservative Treehouse blogger “Sundance” noted on August 9:
What do Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, USA’s Donald Trump, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and Mexico’s Lopez-Obrador all have in common?
First, they are all strong nationalists. Second, the U.S. government has either influenced the removal and judicial incarceration or is currently seeking the removal and judicial incarceration of each of them.
This Deep State operation to remove another popular leader – whose policies are aimed at the benefit of his population, and not to enrich the Deep State donor class – can no longer be dismissed as a “conspiracy theory.”
This is the latest episode in an ongoing campaign to oust, imprison, and isolate any political leader who deviates from the Deep State agenda. To remain in power, and in good standing, any satellite government of the West must support the rainbow death cult. To oppose this evil ideology is to be branded corrupt, a dictator, a criminal.
The message is clear from the regime: if you are a friend of the people, you are an enemy of this state.