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A little over a year ago, Revolver News’ Darren Beattie had the privilege of interviewing an 80s celebrity playboy turned populist hero who improbably defeated two corrupt establishment political dynasties in one of the most stunning electoral upsets in recent political history. In response, the corrupt deep state of the regime he humiliated buried the populist leader in sham, politically motivated indictments and ultimately had him imprisoned.

Though readers might be forgiven for thinking the above paragraph was about Trump, it actually refers to the populist, pro-Trump Pakistani leader Imran Khan, whom many have referred to as Pakistan’s Trump (note: Darren Beattie also had the privilege of interviewing Trump. Watch here with 7.3 million views and counting.)

In the course of Beattie’s interview with the Prime Minister, Beattie addressed the uncomfortable question that one Victoria Nuland, who was then a senior staffer in Biden’s State Department, played an instrumental role in the coup perpetrated against Khan that ultimately ousted him from power. In a nutshell, one of Nuland’s minions relayed the message via an encrypted diplomatic “cypher” to Pakistan that it was time for Khan to go, and the very next day the Pakistani deep state issued a vote of no confidence and removed Khan from power. Not too long after, Khan was imprisoned on false charges and buried in an avalanche of politically motivated indictments. In fact, Beattie was the last Western journalist to interview Khan before his unjust imprisonment.

Nuland’s role, not only as a color revolution regime change operative but also as a premier never-Trump force (because Trump refuses war with Russia), was so notorious that Trump himself called out Nuland extensively and by name in one of his all-time greatest policy statements:

For decades, we’ve had the very same people, such as (current Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs) Victoria Nuland and many others just like her obsessed with pushing Ukraine toward NATO, not to mention the State Department support for uprisings in Ukraine.

These people have been seeking confrontation for a long time, much like the case in Iraq and other parts of the world. And now, we’re teetering on the brink of World War Three.

We highly encourage readers to watch Beattie’s entire interview with Khan, which covers Nuland’s activities and more.

 

The story of the Biden Administration essentially encouraging a color revolution plot to oust the democratically elected Prime Minister Khan is a scandal that hasn’t received sufficient attention. It is also a story of rank hypocrisy. After all, how many times has the Biden Administration falsely accused Russia of meddling in our elections to help Trump? And yet here we have a genuine, egregious, and utterly counterproductive example of direct meddling on the part of the Biden administration. What was Khan’s great offense? Khan had the audacity to go to Russia shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (the trip was entirely pre-planned and in no way constituted an endorsement of the invasion). The true offense is likely much deeper, in that Khan, like Trump, has been a fierce critic of the US war in Iraq, the foreign policy disaster of which Victoria Nuland’s husband Robert Kagan was a chief architect. Readers might remember Robert Kagan for his more recent role at the Washington Post, where his Trump Derangement System stood out even by regime standards, and from whose perch many have suggested he implicitly encouraged (or at least helped to normalize) an assassination attempt on Trump via a tasteless depiction of Julius Caesar. As though his career couldn’t get any more pathetic, Kagan resigned from the Washington Post in disgrace when Jeff Bezos issued the order that the newspaper was not to issue an endorsement of Kamala Harris.

While Khan, like Trump, narrowly escaped multiple assassination attempts, and Khan, like Trump, has been buried in politically motivated indictments, unlike Trump (who has, for now at least, avoided prison), Khan has been wallowing in prison for over a year. We have received reports that Khan’s condition has deteriorated to the point that he is severely malnourished, sickly, and on the verge of death.

Imran Khan, Oct 29th, 2024

(Speaking to reporters and his lawyers in a makeshift courtroom inside Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi):

I want to clearly state that those who voted in favour of the 26th constitutional amendment betrayed Pakistan by destroying the very foundations of our Constitution.

I was tortured by being confined in a cage and treated worse than animals. This was an extremely vile act. Electricity to my cell was shut off for five days, leaving me in complete darkness. I was confined to the cell for ten days. For several weeks, any visits by family members, doctors, or lawyers were blocked.

They want to break me through this torture and hardship, but I will stand firm for the genuine freedom of the Pakistani nation.

Nawaz Sharif is not concerned about the future of Pakistan. Nor does he have the best interest of the Pakistani people at heart because he has his own wealth and properties stashed abroad. They only come to Pakistan to loot and plunder it and then return to their homeland. He went to the UK 22 times while he was Prime Minister. However, now he is the 12th man [cricket terminology – sidelined] so he has again gone back to his motherland.

I am deeply concerned about the abduction of Intazar Panjutha. This enforced disappearance is a result of the enmity against me personally.

There is complete lawlessness in the country. It has been 21 days since the abduction of my focal person. What is his crime? It is unfortunate that even the courts are silent.

Such is the urgency that Revolver’s Darren Beattie took to Glenn Greenwald’s program to give an update. He went into further detail about Nuland’s machinations against both Trump and Khan and stipulated that with Julian Assange now free, Khan is now the highest-priority political prisoner in the world.

Khan’s situation is so egregious that even some Democrats and leftist officials have taken notice and implicitly repudiated the Biden-Harris administration in calling for his release.

Rep. Greg Casar:

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Greg Casar (D-Texas), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and Summer Lee (D-Penn.), along with 59 other Members of Congress, are calling on President Joe Biden to center human rights in U.S. policy towards Pakistan following the country’s Feb. 2024 National Assembly elections, and on Pakistani authorities to release political prisoners, including former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.

This is the first letter from U.S. Members of Congress calling for political prisoners in Pakistan, including Khan, to be released. Casar authored the letter as a follow-up to the nearly unanimous passage of H.Res. 901, which called for the U.S. to support democracy and human rights in Pakistan.

In February 2024, the Pakistani elections saw a historic level of irregularities, including widespread electoral fraud, state-led efforts to disenfranchise voters, the arrest and detention of political leaders, journalists, and activists, and the continued imprisonment of Khan. That month, Casar and 30 other members urgedBiden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to investigate pre- and post-poll rigging in Pakistan’s parliamentary elections. Many of those concerns are reiterated in today’s letter.

“We echo the calls for Khan’s immediate release and for an end to widespread arbitrary detention of party members and activists in Pakistan,” the members wrote. “We ask your Administration to urgently secure the guarantees from the Pakistani government for Khan’s safety and well-being and urge U.S. embassy officials to visit him in prison.”

The calls for Khan’s release are not only bipartisan but also international.

Indian Express:

A group of 20 British MPs across party lines have urged UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to advocate with Pakistan government for the release of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan from Adiala jail alleging that his prosecution seems politically motivated, Geo News TV reported.

The MPs, from both the Commons and the Lords, in a letter raised concern over Khan’s continued detention and added that he was imprisoned in a manner deemed legally baseless by the United Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

The letter read, “Mr Khan’s ongoing detention poses a serious threat to democracy in Pakistan. There are fears that his fate might be determined by a military court, which would represent a troubling and unlawful escalation. Amnesty International has identified a pattern of using the legal system to keep Imran Khan in detention and away from political engagement.”

One wonders why, in the wake of such overwhelming pressure, the Biden-Harris administration hasn’t attempted to step in and correct the issue. Of course, the obvious answer to this is that the Biden-Harris administration has been responsible for Khan’s imprisonment via Nuland’s efforts as a Senior State Department official. And yet the fact that even prominent Democrats have expressed severe misgivings about Khan’s imprisonment would seem to provide a certain degree of political cover for Biden-Harris (or whoever is really in charge) to take positive action on Khan’s behalf.

Unfortunately, the reality is even darker and more scandalous than it appears. Despite Khan’s party (PTI) being effectively banned and all of its prominent representatives being imprisoned or worse, PTI and Khan-backed candidates still won overwhelmingly in recent Pakistani elections, to the point that Khan’s party remarkably released an AI representation of Khan delivering a victory speech. Shehbaz Sharif of the corrupt and establishment-backed Sharif family was nonetheless named Prime Minister and continues to rule the nation with the military-intelligence junta behind Khan’s ouster.

Revolver learned via highly placed Pakistani sources that the Biden-Harris regime reached a tacit agreement with the Sharif Administration in Pakistan. Biden-Harris agreed to ignore the illegal imprisonment of Imran Khan, and in exchange, Pakistan agreed to simply greenlight whatever the Biden-Harris administration wants, particularly regarding Ukraine policy. Given the fact that the Ukraine war was the top policy priority of Nuland, it’s hard to imagine that Nuland herself (before resigning her post) didn’t have some direct or indirect hand in this arrangement.

Pakistani Americans, most of whom love Imran Khan, should understand that Khan’s prospects are far superior under a Trump administration than a Kamala one. This is not only due to the fact that Trump and Khan are so similar in key respects and have many of the same exact enemies—but also because, as a peace candidate who has pledged to end the Ukraine war, we can infer that the terms of the deal with the Sharif administration would by necessity come to an end and therefore limit much of the leverage that the Sharif administration dangled in front of Biden-Harris to secure his continued complicity in Khan’s imprisonment.

The fate of Khan matters not only because it involves the well-being of an innocent man and a great populist leader or because the future of Pakistan largely depends on what happens to him. To us, it matters because the attacks on Khan, much like the attacks on Bolsonaro in Brazil and the attacks on Trump in the United States, are part of a much larger contest whose outcome just might determine the fate of the West and civilization itself.

Pray for Imran Khan. And pray for a Trump victory this election.

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