Speaking in an interview to the BBC’s Urdu channel today, US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter claimed that two of the top opposition leaders in the country have personally promised that they would install pro-US governments should they win the next election.
Munter said he met with current opposition leader Nawaz Sharif as well as popular PTI leader Imran Khan, and that both had assured him that if they won the election, Pakistan would cooperate unconditionally with the US on the war in terrorism.
Both candidates’ parties have been loudly critical of the ruling Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) for behaving like a US client state, and Khan has loudly condemned participation in the war, saying in one interview that “America is destroying Pakistan.”
Munter’s claims were shocking, and neither Sharif nor Khan has issued statements yet disputing the allegations. If true they will likely push Pakistan’s strongly anti-US voters toward religious conservative blocs as the only real “opposition” to the status quo.
“US Ambassador: Pakistani Opposition Figures Vow to Install Pro-US Govt.”
Your Excellency, What the hell do you think the present Pakistani regime is, anti-US? If so, why don’t you do to it as you do to Iran? If it were anti-US, it would have shot down the very first drone we flew there. You’re not doing your homework, Excellency.
This is a ploy to undermine the Pakistani opposition: especially Imran Khan.
Khan has too much to lose by retreating from previous statements criticizing US conduct in Pakistan.
As ever, the US profits when the locals remain divided amongst themselves.
Have heard the interview, and cannot find reference to such statements …
This is just another way to create confusion and split opinion among masses through Diplomatic Propaganda Machine.Pakistanis be very careful.