đŸ’„ THROWBACK: Bombshell 2012 interview with Assange reveals why Imran Khan ended up in jail More than a decade before his 2023 imprisonment on trumped up graft, state secrets and marriage law charges, Pakistan’s populist leader spoke to WikiLeaks’ founder about his vision for Pakistan. In the interview, Khan outlined: 🔮 his anti-corruption drive, blasting entrenched “political mafias” for their role in stunting Pakistan’s development and turning the country into a global debt slave. “We are now borrowing to service our debt,” and most of the borrowed money “ends up in Swiss bank accounts” 🔮 demands to reset Pakistan-US ties and create “a relationship based on dignity and self-respect,” not treating Pakistan as a “hired gun paid to kill America’s enemies,” and bombing its supposed “ally” 🔮 a bombshell confirmation that bin Laden and al-Qaeda were CIA and Pakistani ISI assets. “They were trained by the Pakistan army and the ISI, financed by the CIA while they were fighting the Soviets
Suddenly comes 9/11 and you do a 180° turn” 🔮 his view that the ‘War on Terror’ had been a total failure, and could not be won by bombs and killings, only by winning hearts and minds 🔮 strong opposition to deploying the Pakistani army in tribal regions at the US’s behest, pointing to the moral and material consequences of sending the military to fight its own people and triggering a home-grown militancy ($70B in damage, 40k casualties “in a war we had nothing to do with”) Khan also revealed a nonchalant attitude toward life and death, joking “you’ve gotta go sometime” and that it’s better to die for a good cause after Assange expressed hopes he wouldn’t be assassinated. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime