No one should deny, however, that the US still has huge networks of influence throughout Pakistan, particularly among Pakistan’s opposition parties and members of the military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) who may sympathize with the US for whatever reason
According to the Pakistani leader, he has a letter confirming the attempt at regime change against him, as well as threats to his own life.
According to reports, the information came from his country’s embassy in Washington, DC, after an American official told his Pakistani colleagues that bilateral ties will not improve as long as Prime Minister Khan is in office.
The United States has long wielded enormous power in Pakistani affairs, albeit this has significantly dwindled in recent years under the country’s current nationalistic government. Nobody should deny, however, that the US still retains huge networks of influence throughout Pakistan, especially among Pakistan’s opposition parties and permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”), who sympathize with the US for whatever reason.
Whatever the case may be, onlookers should take note of the powerful military’s neutrality during the regime change crisis. Many people expected them to meddle, but they didn’t. That is because Pakistan’s young democracy is maturing considerably more rapidly than in previous years, despite the fact that it still has a long way to go. Nonetheless, the fact that this regime change process has thus far occurred without the involvement of the military is impressive. Pakistanis hold this institution in high regard for keeping their ultra-diverse country together during difficult times and in the face of major regional threats to its survival. Popular impressions are heavily influenced by speculation about its backing for one or the other side.
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According to the Pakistani leader, he has a letter confirming the attempt at regime change against him, as well as threats to his own life. According to reports, the information came from his country’s embassy in Washington, DC, after an American official told his Pakistani colleagues that bilateral ties will not improve as long as Prime Minister Khan is in office. It was also said to be about that time, in the early 1990sAfghanistan’s Transition: Regional and International Consequences
To that end, it used pre-existing partisan unrest within Pakistani society to facilitate a no-confidence vote against him by an American-friendly opposition, apparently to hold him responsible for the country’s economic difficulties, but in actuality to punish him for his independent foreign policy toward Russia on behalf of their presumed US patrons. Due to the vigilant decision of Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri to reject this proposal on the basis that it denotes unconstitutional interference in internal affairs by a foreign government in violation of Article 5 of the Pakistani Constitution, this foreign-backed regime change plot failed to overthrow him.
In the future, Pakistan will need to rid its democracy of illicit foreign interference by pursuing counterintelligence and other related investigations into the failed American regime change plot. The country must ensure that its forthcoming elections are fair and transparent, which means punishing politically compromised elements of the opposition for their role in pushing the objectives of a foreign power at the expense of their own country’s objective interests. The opposition would almost certainly try to incite unrest during the Democratic Movement, but they are likely to be thwarted by the security establishment if their plot threatens national security. They’ll almost certainly argue that Prime Minister Khan is conducting an “anti-democratic witch hunt” against them.
They’ll almost certainly argue that Prime Minister Khan is conducting a “anti-democratic witch hunt” against them. That is why it is vital for the incumbent government to encourage the intelligence services to publicly reveal as much information as possible about the plot and related investigations in order to establish beyond a shred of doubt that it not only exists, but that their counterintelligence operations aren’t a politically biased ploy in his balance in favour. Pakistan’s democracy barely survived this latest attack, which could have thrown the country into anarchy if it had succeeded, potentially endangering the country’s very existence given the extraordinarily challenging regional security situation it has faced for decades. Pakistan’s foreign policy is expected to remain unchanged for the time being. and devoid of American pressures.
The newly promulgated National Security Policy from December prohibits participation in bloc politics, such as the kind the US was allegedly pressuring Pakistan to engage in by demanding that it publicly condemn Russia’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine and join anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the West. Furthermore, with a specific focus on Central Asia, this policy-making document codified the notion of geo-economics. “Pakistan’s geo-economic pivot is centred on expanding trade and commercial ties through connectivity that links Central Asia to our warm waters,” it says expressly. As a result, Pakistan’s multipolar geoeconomic interests are poised to converge with Russia’s.
This isn’t just speculation; it’s a credible projection based on a February 2021 agreement to build a Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan railway, dubbed PAKAFUZ after the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Railway or PAKAFUZ after the first letters of each participant country. It is the de facto northern extension of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a major project of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that would eventually link the Russian and Pakistani economies via Central Asia and Afghanistan. It nicely complements Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP), which is Moscow’s major vision for total supercontinent integration in the twenty-first century and the acceleration of multipolarity, particularly in relation to PAKAFUZ, which might help Russia gain overland access to South Asia. Following the current sanctions, the US has an interest in damaging Russia’s planned reorientation to non-Western countries.
As a result of its amazingly pragmatic policies with Russia that are mutually beneficial, not aimed at third parties like America or India, and intended to achieve their shared multipolar geo-economic goals, Pakistan is likely to be targeted for regime change. Given that Prime Minister Khan’s visionary leadership is responsible for the comprehensive development of relations with Russia in recent years, as well as the fact that he defied American pressure to visit Moscow in late February despite the start of his host’s special military operation in Ukraine at the time, it should be obvious that he is capable of leading the country forward.
The fast-moving Russian-Pakistani rapprochement, as well as the imminent convergence of their geo-economic interests in the Eurasian Heartland, constitutes a latent threat to America’s diminishing unipolar hegemony, according to the United States’ traditional zero-sum perspective. As a result, Washington is concerned about the long-term political ramifications of its former “vassal state” in Pakistan asserting its strategic autonomy in this geopolitically significant area of the continent.
Given Prime Minister Khan’s visionary leadership’s role in the comprehensive development of relations with Russia in recent years, as well as the fact that he bravely defied American pressure to visit Moscow in late February despite the start of his host’s special military operation in Ukraine at the time, any objective observer should understand why the US scrambled to replace him as soon as possible.
In the future, Pakistan will need to pursue the removal of illicit foreign interference from its democracy.
