Imran Khan takes on America
thecradle.coThe government in Pakistan has alleged that Sunday's no-confidence motion to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan from power was masterminded in Washington
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This article completely glances over Khan’s long history of trying to sit between the chairs and doing independent meddling that in the case of Afghanistan backfired massively.
To me this seems rather like the US finally decided to bet on another horse and Khan fighting for his political survival by becoming a Chinese puppet (like the Pakistan military leaders).
The u.s. has no right to decide who rules in another country.
I neither implied this nor is it what seemed to have happened. The US lobbied with a small political party that decided to switch sides to the opposition. Maybe corruption was involved, who knows, but this is still a lot less problematic compared to China having bought all the Pakistani military leaders and through them trying to remove any resemblance of a democratic process.
Oh and Pakistan did try to decide who rules in Afghanistan against what the Chinese government negotiated, and now there are the hard-liners from the Haqqani network in power.
One country lobbying politicians in another is definitely foreign meddling, and would be completely forbidden if Pakistan did it in the u.s. Where do you get the idea that China “bought” the Pakistani military? As far as I know, they are generally pro-us.
Who negotiated what in Afghanistan? The Taliban won the war and gained control of the state, it wasnt a matter of negotiation.
You are not up to date on Afghan or Pakistan politics at all it seems. And foreign envoys meeting with party representative happens all the time in the US, that is basically their job. In a healthy democracy that is also not really a problem.
During the time of the Taliban takeover, the Chinese negotiated with a moderate faction of the Taliban and it looked for a while like they succeeded in pushing them into position of power. But then the Pakistani ISI intervened and supported the hard liner Taliban faction from the Haqqani network. The Chinese were furious about this and forced the head of the ISI to resign a few weeks later through their influence into the top leadership of the Pakistani military.
Interesting. Where did you get this information?
Mostly articles by usually well informed journalists on asiatimes.com and some background info I picked up when I worked in Pakistan a few years ago.