The US thing is most likely completely made up. Khan’s government handed over complete control of the state Bank and economy to the IMF, his government was sponsored by sugar Barron’s and did nothing but give subsidies to real estate developers to make more gated communities. Inflation has been out of control the past few years. He was just extremely unpopular. Not only that, his government has been coddling right wing fringe groups and making deals and concessions with them for years as well as disappearing journalists and making thousands homeless by demolishing houses of the most vulnerable people because they were deemed as ‘encroachments’. The US had nothing to gain by removing him. It’s a lot more likely that the boots who brought him to power in the first place had a change of heart and egged on the opposition to call the vote.
Twist: the next PM is even more pro-China.
Fuuuuck so all I know about this is from the thread I saw earlier today, the US had a hand in this no?
I’ve seen something alluding to that but it feels like a guess. But I don’t know what the deal is with the people kicking him out. What do they gain by being servants of the US? I don’t really know enough about Pakistan or current events there to say, but I do know the US basically created their intelligence agency or something like that.
Pakistan also housed Osama bin Laden within their borders as well as providing support for the Taliban throughout the Afghanistan war.
Reducing everything to a handful of historical events is going to severely limit your understanding. I doubt this is any more of a US led coup than the one in Myanmar. There are still power struggles outside of great power politics.
