It is now very much clear that Imran Khan and his PTI can go to any extent to further their nefarious designs as the pro-Israel and pro-India US Congress members, known for their anti-Pakistan views, are their last hope. And more importantly, they are seeking help from the same Biden administration they had accused of removing their government in April 2022.
That’s why, 160 parliamentarians in Pakistan, in a dispatch addressed to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, have denounced the views expressed in the letter by 62 US members of Congress and urged them to desist from interfering in the internal matters of Pakistan in favor of Imran Khan and his party.
One cannot miss the fact that the letter written by the pro-India and pro-Israel Congress members appeared just before the US presidential election.
Nobody should be surprised by the reaction of the Pakistani parliamentarians who rightly described the move at Capitol Hill as a reflection of “a skewed view of realities” which “greatly exaggerates baseless political narrative of one particular party” – the PTI.
The response given by Pakistani parliamentarians comes days after 62 US Congress members wrote a letter to President Joe Biden and called for securing the release of Imran Khan – an incarcerated convict who is also facing the possibility of military trial over the May 9 botched coup attempt.
Although some circles in Pakistan have been calling for ignoring an organized campaign launched against Pakistan and its national institutions in name of “democratic right”, everyone knows about the role of lobbying in the US politics.
One cannot miss the fact that the letter written by the pro-India and pro-Israel Congress members appeared just before the US presidential election. Also, the Muslim voters can play a decisive role in at least three battleground states. Moreover, a good number of the overseas Pakistanis in the US, who are mostly pro-PTI but also affluent, have seemingly contributed a good amount of donations to the election campaigns of different candidates – both Republican and Democrats. Interestingly, the majority of the US Congress members who wrote the letter in support of the PTI happen to have a pro-Israel, Pro India and anti-Pakistan record.
The US Congress members are oblivious of the fact that Imran Khan and his party have been championing the cause of terrorist groups like Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Hence, the reason behind PTI’s anti-Pakistan lobbying is evident given that the Americans will choose their next president as well as all the House of Representative members and 34 senators on November 5.
Moreover, Pakistan has every right to remind Washington about its Russian interference claims. If Russian interference in the US elections and meddling in internal politics is bad, then how can these US Congress lawmakers justify poking their noses in the domestic affairs of Pakistan.
The elected representatives, therefore, in Pakistan have asked the US Congress members through their prime minister “to separate facts from fiction and critically view the political motives behind the campaign to discredit credible political process in Pakistan and undermine its democratic institutions”.
Meanwhile, the government must now take effective steps to respond to the social media apparatus of Imran Khan, which is doing everything to spread anarchy in Pakistan. That is the reason why the parliamentarians have talked about the post-truth world.
“Pakistan, like any other democracy, grapples with challenges of post-truth era which have been further complicated by politics of cult-followership and polarization”, which is exemplified in the persona of lmran Khan, says the letter of the Pakistani parliamentarians.
If Russian interference in the US elections and meddling in internal politics is bad, then how can these US Congress lawmakers justify poking their noses in the domestic affairs of Pakistan.
One wonders how the “well-informed” US Congressmen have no clue of Imran Khan introducing “political violence and criminal intimidation against political rivals as well as state institutions”. They have forgotten about the May 9 attacks and repeated violent protests. Most definitely, the US citizens will not be allowed to attack Pentagon and the State Department, let alone the Governor of Maryland or Northern Virginia bringing in their state police and National Guards to invade their national capital, Washington DC. We have seen how the culprits of January 6, 2020 were arrested and sentenced.
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However, the most interesting thing about this episode is the fact that the US Congress members are oblivious of the fact that Imran Khan and his party have been championing the cause of terrorist groups like Taliban and Al Qaeda and the PTI founding chairman had even gone to the extent calling Osama bin Laden as a martyr. The troubling question is: how would these Congressmen and Congresswomen justify the US war on terror, if Imran Khan’s “apologist comments about Taliban, misogynic views on gender-based violence, contempt for parliamentary democracy and disrespect for diplomatic norms” don’t matter.
We can understand that the US Congress members needed donation dollars to fire up their November 5 election, but asking the same Biden administration to help Imran Khan, who, according to PTI’s earlier stance, removed their government through Donald Lu, is simply laughable.
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