Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday claimed that US defense analyst Dr. Rebecca Grant’s comments in a US television channel’s show eliminated “all doubts” regarding his assertion that he was ousted from the prime minister’s office in the previous month through a US-sponsored “foreign conspiracy”.
In a tweet, while referring to the comments made during a Fox News program, he claimed the US made the move due to him carrying out an independent foreign policy for Pakistan.
Dr. Grant was questioned what the US’s message to Pakistan should be. She answered: “Pakistan needs to support Ukraine, stop looking for deals with Russia right now, limit their involvement with China, and stop the anti-American policies that are part of the reason that Imran Khan, the prime minister, got voted out of office a couple of weeks ago.”
“So, it’s time to cool it on the anti-American, pro-Russia policies in Pakistan. Now is not the time,” she stated in the program.
Shortly after the video circulated online, Khan, in a series of tweets, claimed that he was vindicated for his stance. He said the clip should “remove all doubts” regarding why him and his government were ousted.
He questioned US President Joe Biden’s government if it believed it had increased or decreased “anti-American” sentiment in Pakistan by taking part in what he said was a “regime-change conspiracy”.
He tweeted that if any Pakistani prime minister avowed the country’s sovereignty and articulated an independent foreign policy, he would be removed and a “subservient, crooked PM like [Shehbaz] Sharif will be brought in”.