Five Takeaways From Pakistan’s Latest Anti-Democratic Crackdown – Andrew Korybko 9/10/24

Source: korybko.substack.com

The Establishment fears the power of the Pakistani people.

Tens of thousands of PTI supporters peacefully rallied alongside their MPs outside of Islamabad on Sunday for former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s release from jail, where he’s been held for over a year already on dubious and in some cases outright ridiculous charges. The security services then arrested at least a dozen party leaders the next day, including some MPs from the premises of Parliament itself, in what PTI described as “a slap to the face of an already decimated democracy”. Here’s what it all means:…

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