{"id":8830,"date":"2024-04-05T10:19:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=8830"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:21:22","slug":"imran-khans-dangerous-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=8830","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan\u2019s Dangerous Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Authors: <\/b>Javid Ahmad<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Douglas London<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation:<\/b> Atlantic Council, Former Afghanistan ambassador to the UAE, Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (Nonresident Fellow), and Contractor for the US Defense Community \/ Georgetown University (Adjunct Faculty) and Senior CIA Operations Officer (Retired after 34 years of service, including as Counterterrorism Chief for South and Southwest Asia)<\/span><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher: <\/b>Foreign Policy<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b> April 20, 2022\/ Washington DC, USA<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Analysis<\/span><\/p>

Word Count: <\/b>2250<\/span><\/p>

Link: <\/b>https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/04\/20\/imran-khan-pakistan-no-confidence-vote-protests\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Pakistan, Imran Khan, Vote of No Confidence, Regime Change, US, Polarization, Anti-Americanism, Corruption<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:<\/b><\/p>

This article gives a view into what Washington wants Islamabad to do after removing Imran Khan as chief executive of Pakistan, courtesy of the two authors of this piece, one of which is a retired Senior CIA Operations Officer while the other works for a think tank which directly aligns itself with US foreign policy. While the authors give an impression that Khan has \u201cmade-up\u201d the foreign plot story which ousted him as premier of 220 million people, they however reflect on how strongly the Pakistani military generals have also been doing America\u2019s bidding at the cost of common Pakistanis. It is now more than evident that Khan was removed because he chose to run Pakistan independent of the US\u2019 say which ruffled feathers in Washington, the Pentagon, and more so importantly in Rawalpindi, home to the Pakistani Army leadership. Khan\u2019s argument that Pakistan by fighting America\u2019s war was hurting itself, its people and economy, did not have many supporters in the military which has been getting billions of dollars in security aid from the Pentagon, though later stopped by Donald Trump. The resumption of a billion-dollar annual aid may be in the future. As the authors make a strong case for the incumbent Pakistani rulers, dubbed by Khan as imported government (brought into power by foreign forces), to reset relations with the US, maintain distance from Russia and reduce dealings with China, they also acknowledge that any such maneuvering will only expose the rulers and the military alike as it would give credence to Khan\u2019s narrative that his government was uprooted because he said \u201cabsolutely Not\u201d to the US.<\/span><\/p>


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Authors: Javid Ahmad and Douglas London Affiliation: Atlantic Council, Former Afghanistan ambassador to the UAE, Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (Nonresident Fellow), and Contractor for the US Defense Community \/ Georgetown University (Adjunct Faculty) and Senior CIA Operations Officer (Retired after 34 years of service, including as Counterterrorism Chief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-and-southeast-asia"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false]},"author_info":{"info":["CIGA Staff"]},"category_info":"South & Southeast Asia<\/a>","tag_info":"South & Southeast Asia","comment_count":"0","rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"large":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/6231bcb9aa9a4.jpg",1024,768,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"CIGA Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?author=23"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"South & Southeast Asia<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Authors: Javid Ahmad and Douglas London Affiliation: Atlantic Council, Former Afghanistan ambassador to the UAE, Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (Nonresident Fellow), and Contractor for the US Defense Community \/ Georgetown University (Adjunct Faculty) and Senior CIA Operations Officer (Retired after 34 years of service, including as Counterterrorism Chief…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}