Is Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan in danger?
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Author : | Publisher: Walt | Monday, 01 Oct. 2018 - 14h37
Serious concerns are emerging about the safety of Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan. This modest man, close to the people, is not to the liking of Americans and Saudis, who are used to a corrupt and corrupt Pakistani prime minister. Two weeks ago I drew your attention to the fact that Imran Khan would run serious security risks because the Saudis do not accept to see Nawaz Sharif (their man) in prison for corruption, to be replaced by a man of integrity and nationalist. I also reported that MBS arranged to have an exchange away from the Pakistani defense minister who was performing Haj rites in Mecca.
Imran Khan, who came to power after an election, can be removed from office only by assassination or a military coup. It seems that the infernal quarteron United States, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Israel are working on both scenarios. Aware of the dangers weighing on his country, Imran Khan is getting closer to China and Iran, but Moscow is not far. He will soon make an official visit to Beijing and the very dynamic chief of staff of the Iranian army is in permanent contact.
Warning signs of the storm approaching the only Islamic country to possess the atomic bomb, the Pentagon has removed 300 million dollars of aid to the Pakistani army, just to create discontent among military leaders. Saudi Arabia, for its part, does not stand idly by and Saudi money has freed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter who were in prison for corruption by corrupt justice. Blanched, Nawaz will be able to focus on the political destabilization of Imran Khan. After having lost (another of their men) the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, for corruption too, which was replaced in elections by that honest and nationalist Mahatir, Saudi Arabia is ready to do anything for to turn back the clock of History.
For its part, Israel, which manipulates all this beautiful world, dreams of being able to break up Pakistan and to install a civil war there as it did for Iraq by using the American military force and to get its hands on the Pakistani nuclear arsenal. So let's keep an eye, and the good one, on developments in Pakistan. What is certain is that a big secret war is going to unfold soon (it has already started in fact) in this geopolitically sensitive region for Beijing, Moscow and Tehran.
A Creeping Coup d’Etat in Pakistan
Under Chief of Army Staff General Bajwa, Pakistan’s civil-military balance firmly tilted toward the latter yet again.
By Mohammad Taqi
November 01, 2018
Pakistan’s chief of army staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa, recently marked two years in the all-powerful position. At his appointment, Bajwa was dubbed as pro-democracy and holding a “relatively more moderate view of the relationship with the civilian government” among a military known for its pathologic disdain of all things civilian. Since assuming his post, however, he has effectively upended any democratic gains that Pakistan had made following the ouster of its last formal military dictator, General Pervez Musharraf, in 2008.
The Pakistan army is an institutional monolith – its apples don’t fall far. Bajwa has been no exception. The Pakistani COAS has led a creeping coup d’état started by his predecessor, General Raheel Sharif, to its culmination. The 57-year-old infantryman has virtually reclaimed all the ground lost to civilian political forces over the past decade. In Bajwa’s tenure, Pakistan’s civil-military balance – perennially lopsided in favor of the army – was firmly tilted toward the latter yet again.
While the Pakistan army has attempted to trip democracy every step of the way since its restoration in 2008, this effort took on a particular urgency under COAS Sharif. Raheel Sharif’s director general of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate tried to bring down the three-time elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (no relation) through an orchestrated street protest by the army’s political proxies. Then the army under Bajwa resorted to full-blown political and judicial engineering to oust Nawaz Sharif and keep him out of the political arena for good.
Read the full story here, in The Diplomat
