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A CSIS South Asia Program event with Imran Kahn was quoted by Agence France Press, "Pakistan May Plunge in Kenya-Style Violence: Khan."
Pakistan's cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan called on the United States Thursday to pressure President Pervez Musharraf to reinstate sacked top judges or face the prospect of Kenya-type post-election violence.
Khan, speaking in Washington, said that if Musharraf, a key US "war on terror" ally, rigged February 18 parliamentary elections as speculated, "it is, in fact, going to exacerbate everything.
"The chances are that we would have a Kenya-type situation, where people are not going to accept their election results" and "the country will sink into a deeper crisis," warned Khan, leader of the marginal Tehrik-e-Insaaf (Movement for Justice) party, which is boycotting the polls.
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