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Apr 17 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Imran Khan public stance on US policy on WoT + Drone Strikes vs his private conversations with the Americans!

US govt declassified document on IK meeting with US Congress delegation from Feb 2010!

Americans were rather surprised by IK blunt talk!

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'The meeting was held outside on the immaculate lawn of Khan's sizeable home [...]. The picturesque setting, however, lay in stark contrast to the often pointed and critical statements that were later to come from Khan'.

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Imran Khan didn't sugarcoat his views instead spoke bluntly and in clear words conveying what he believed should be pointed out.

Here IK says that Benazir Bhutto was brought to Pak under US pressure, and that the NRO paved the way for Zardari to grab power.#امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور Image
'In brokering the NRO and giving Pakistanis the impression that Benazir Bhutto was being rehabilitated in order to do Washington's bidding, the Americans had given her the kiss of death.'

This is very interesting & relevant except from IK's own book!
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Very important & interesting points discussed here.

IK says:
- US is perceived as a greater threat to Pak.
- Pak govt was exaggerating things to get more dollars & funds.
- Let tribes deal with the Taliban.
- Scale back mil. op for talks with Taliban.

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Whatever IK discussed in private the Americans is exactly has been his public stance! This is why it makes him different and better than our puppet politicians. I have shared their private discussions in multiple threads earlier.
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Go through the following thread to find a subset of the US govt declassified docs on the interaction of US officials & our politicians. Its upto you to decide if they were conducting themselves as IK did or as mere puppets!

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Source:

1. US Govt declassified Cable: archive.org/details/10ISLA…
2. Pakistan: A personal history by Imran Khan.

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Apr 19
I think it was PPP that started hiring lobbyists in Washington. Mark Siegal, via Benazir's friend Peter Galbraith, was allegedly given a contract in 1989-90 during Benazir's 1st tenure for $250K.

Locke Lord, Siegal's firm, was bringing $1 Million from Pak about 10 yrs ago alone. Image
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Mar 31
Asfandyar Wali Khan endorsing & defending Drone Strikes in Pakhtunkhwa!

Reading this cable upset me the most. It's a conversation between Asfandyar Wali Khan, the Pashtun nationalist leadership of Pakhtunkhwa, and the Americans about drone strikes & military ops in Pakhtunkhwa.
'People in the Waziristan never have protested the U.S. drone attack because they know the GOP has no way to stop extremism there without drones. The only ones protesting drones were intellectual liberals sitting in Lahore and Islamabad. ' ~ Mashar Asfandyar Wali Khan.
Mashar Asfandyar Wali Khan also mentioned about the invitatin to go to Washington. I don't I fully understand what is being discussed when talk about Maulana Farzlur Rehman and 'not in their interest' bit.

Anyways, Asfandyar Wali Khan did accompany Zardari to the US.

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Mar 31
'I think the US did not quite realize the extent to which the people of Pakistan would be prepared to accept economic distress and hardship for the sake of the honor and integrity of their country. [...] they want to have friends not masters.'

—President Ayub Khan in 1967.
Right from the day Pakistan was created, Pakistan was meant to be used and exploited to fight West's war on communism and Soviet Union.

They did use Pakistan for that purpose, and continue to exploit it for their similar wars.

A major and formal step was taken in that direction in 1954 when a Pak diplomat in the US, who was neither a politician nor a member of national assembly, was foisted upon Pakistan as PM who then formally joined the US camp.

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Mar 30
Once a very proud Prime Minister of Pakistan secretly sought opinion of the US president if he should go to Syria or not during the Arab-Israel war in 1973.

Pak PM was informed in Ankara that 'He [US] president doesn't care which.' The PM, however, decided not to go.
PM also chose to inform US that Pak army wished to send a brigade to Syria to fight along the Arabs, and that Arabs put pressure for the same on him but that he argued against it, and instead is only providing ammunition to the Syrians.
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Mar 26
Did you know?

It was publicly alleged by the British media (Daily Telegraph) that CIA funded Mohtarama Fatima Jinnah's bid for presidency against Gen. Ayub Khan in 1965. This explosive story was published months after the 1965 elections.
Ayub's relations had begun to detoriate🧵
with the US after his reluctance to act according to the suggestions of Washington during and after the Sino-Indian war of 1962.

This sub-thread offers some more points and explanation of what unfolded between Pak and the US during the Sino-Indian war.
Ayub tried to use the threat of dismantling the American intelligence setup in Pak as a lever but US wouldn't buy it and instead successfully used aid
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Feb 24
Did you know that right from the day Pak came into being, US was seriously planning to use it to fight communism/Soviet Union?

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