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Imran Khan’s Ousting and the Crisis of Pakistan’s Military Regime

The Intercept Briefing

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The Veracity of Imran Khan's Removal From Power

Jeremy Ben-Ghiat: I was going to ask a very similar question, actually regarding specifically, you know, Imran Khan. He said that there was a involvement of US officials in engineering. Here's your removal from power. Was there any evidence or any reason to believe this claim had some weight to it?Ben-Ghiath: There's no evidence of the US actually playing that role. It was very much domestic. But what it did do was he was able to tap into that anti-American sentiment or that nationalist sentiment and use it very effectively towards his own benefit.

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