Gori is schooling the Pak origin Journo on Imran Khan and the Cypher.

carne

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He just regurgitated the PDM and Lifafa media propaganda but the host appeared to be more knowledgeable than the guest from "The Nation".

This guy is either not knowledgeable or intentionally doing a propaganda.
 

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February 14, 2024
Did Imran Khan Win From Jail?
“It’s hard to win an election from prison,” The Washington Post writes in an editorial, “but that appears to have happened Thursday in Pakistan’s general election, which has produced equal doses of confusion and surprise in this troubled nation of 240 million.”

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s popular former prime minister, is currently in jail. He was convicted of publicizing state secrets and sentenced to 10 years in prison. On top of that, he and his wife were convicted of having been married fraudulently. Critics have widely alleged this was the work of Pakistan’s politically powerful military, with which Khan has feuded.

But after Pakistan’s election last week, commentators are seeing the vote results as a win for Khan. The former PM was not on the ballot. His PTI party was all but disbanded, its candidates forced to run as independents and stripped of the party’s cricket-bat logo, which helps voters identify PTI candidates in a country with a 42% illiteracy rate. Khan’s PTI did not win an outright majority or enough legislative seats to form a government, but it won more seats than any other party, according to results released over the weekend. Two other major political parties have said they will form a coalition government that does not include Khan’s PTI. At The New York Times, Alan Yuhas and Christina Goldbaum identify the major players who will be involved in forming Pakistan’s next government, including former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and “dynastic scion” Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. At Nikkei Asia, Adnan Aamir suggests those two could wind up sharing the five-year prime-ministerial term.

Broadly, the result is being viewed as a surprise—and as a rejection of Pakistan’s military-dominated political order, driven by fed-up young voters. At Dawn Prism, an opinion-and-ideas section of the major Pakistani English-language daily newspaper Dawn, Asad Rahim Khan calls it Pakistan’s “greatest electoral upset since 1970.” Stressing the youth vote, Omar Waraich writes for Foreign Policy: “These voters want to have the power to choose their leaders, not leave the country in the hands of the powerful military that has maintained a granitic grip on politics for most of its history.”

Sharing that view, The Economist writes: “The result is a rebuke to Pakistan’s army … For the entirety of Pakistan’s 76-year history, the army has ruled either directly or behind the scenes, propelling or undermining civilian governments as it saw fit.
This time, it might have miscalculated.”
 

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