Monitoring Desk: PTI has paid around $180,000 for an advertisement published in the New York Times US Edition directly through the NYT US Office.
This advertisement requests US government intervene for the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who had been claiming that his government was removed by the United States.
Khan used to claim that he was victimized because he wanted to get Pakistan out of US hegemony.
This request for the intervention of the US government for his release from jail, where he had been convicted for corruption, is preposterous, comic, and tragic at the same time, showing desperation of Khan.
It is pertinent to mention that on March 27, 2022, ahead of a vote of no-confidence in the National Assembly that resulted in his ouster, the former Prime Minister Imran Khan had pulled out a piece of paper – allegedly the classified cipher – from his pocket and waved it at a public gathering, claiming it was evidence of an “international conspiracy” being hatched to topple his government. He kept playing on “international conspiracy” rhetoric till such time the May 9, 2023, mutiny took place, and the national political scene was altogether changed. Imran Khan said a letter was written by the USA to Pakistan to topple his government.
The general public thinks that the US wrote a letter to kick Imran Khan out of power but they don’t know that the US does not need any letter to plan any coup de tard anywhere in the world, plus it is highly unlikely that Imran Khan, an apple to the Western eye, can face such a fate. Imran Khan was ousted from office due to a political process, and that was the last thing Western powers wanted to happen in Pakistan. Even now, maximum lobbying for Imran Khan is being done in the West. West is giving refuge to his anti-state followers and also providing an environment to support him. And he for the domestic consumption selling the act of “I hate America and America hates me because I say no to America”.
After launching a cypher bomb over Pakistan’s foreign relations with global powers, the PTI media started accusing Washington of planning “Regime Change”. Therefore, Imran Khan used genetic ‘anti-Americanism’ and tried to earn the title of Che Guevara of Pakistan, and his popular slogan “Absolutely Not” to the United States became his major tool for political publicity. In May 2023, his audio leak appeared on social media in which he was requesting a US congresswoman to lobby for him and demanded her use her contacts to close down cases of corruption he is facing in his home country.
