In a big transfer, Richard Grenell, US President-elect Donald Trump-nominated US envoy for particular missions, publicly backed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s launch from jail, claiming that the present regime created false allegations in opposition to him.
“I might prefer to see Imran Khan be launched from jail. He is at the moment in jail, dealing with lots of the similar allegations as President Trump, the place the ruling celebration put him in jail and created some type of corruption and false allegations, and he is in jail now,” ANI quoted Grenell as saying.
Grenell additionally drew parallels between the corruption costs that Khan is dealing with and people surrounding Trump, including that each males had been victims of “politically motivated allegations”.
The US diplomat’s feedback got here throughout an interview with the American information outlet Newsmax on Wednesday, the place he mentioned US-Pakistan relations beneath the Trump administration.
Khan, who can also be the founder and chief of Pakistan’s key opposition celebration Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), is at the moment detained on corruption costs in a Pakistani jail.
Trump’s envoy Grenell praises Imran Khan
Grenell additionally praised Khan for bettering ties between the 2 nations, noting that the connection had flourished when the PTI chief was in energy. He highlighted Khan’s background as a former cricket captain and outsider to conventional politics, aligning him with Trump’s political outsider standing.
“We had a a lot better relationship with Pakistan through the Trump administration when a man named Imran Khan was the chief of Pakistan. That is as a result of Imran Khan was an outsider. He was a former cricket participant and truly the captain of the Pakistani nationwide cricket group. He wasn’t a politician, and he spoke in very commonsense language. He and Donald Trump had an excellent relationship,” Grenell stated.
Earlier on Tuesday, Grenell, in reply to the US State Division spokesperson Mathew Miller’s submit in X, referred to as for the discharge of the PTI founder.
He additional slammed the State Division Spokesperson stating that the US’s concern over the “sentencing of Pakistani civilians in a navy tribunal” was late and that the hassle was “too little and too weak.”
“You’re late. And that is too little and too weak. Converse usually. Free Imran Khan,” Grenell stated on X in reply to Miller’s submit.
