The assassination attempt against Imran Khan exposes the establishment’s dirty game

By Andrew Korybko

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was ousted through a US-orchestrated post-modern coup in early spring as punishment for his independent foreign policy, narrowly survived an assassination attempt on Thursday.

He led his promised Long March from Lahore to Islamabad along with thousands of his supporters to demand free and fair elections as early as possible.

Before the former premier set off, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah threatened to “hang him upside down.”

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It’s little wonder that the most popular political figure in Pakistan, whose party continues to sweep every by-election they’ve participated in since April, blamed Sanaullah, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Chief of ISI’s Counter-Intelligence Major General Faisal Naseer for trying to kill him.

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