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The Secret US-Backed Removal of Pakistan's Prime Minister (with The Intercept's Murtaza Hussain)
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The Secret US-Backed Removal of Pakistan's Prime Minister (with The Intercept's Murtaza Hussain)
A cable uncovered by The Intercept confirms that America pushed for the ousting of Pakistani PM Imran Khan so that Pakistan would abandon its policy of not selling weapons to Ukraine.
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Murtaza Hussain
Aug 19, 2023
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I spoke with The Intercept reporter Murtaza Hussain about him and Ryan Grim’s uncovering of a cable long rumored to exist that showed the United States’ hand in assisting in the removal from power last year of Pakistan’s democratically-elected leader, Imran Khan.

We discussed Khan’s initial rise, how the powerful Pakistani military came to abandon him, P…

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