Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A CSIS South Asia Program event with Imran Kahn was quoted by the Associated Press, "U.S. Urged to Push for Reforms in Pakistan."
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A CSIS South Asia Program event with Imran Kahn was quoted by the Associated Press, "U.S. Urged to Push for Reforms in Pakistan."
Cricket legend and Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan urged the United States Thursday to insist that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf reinstate an independent judiciary.
Khan predicted "massive rigging" in Feb. 18 parliamentary elections that his political party, Tehrik-e-Insaaf, plans to boycott.
An independent judiciary able to supervise elections, Khan said, "is the only way out of the quagmire" Pakistan has been in since Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule late last year and his purging of the Supreme Court.
"Any other way, the situation is going to get worse," Khan said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. Read the article
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