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A CSIS event with Imran Kahn was quoted in a column in the Washington Post, "No More Coups."
January 28, 2008

Author:

Jackson Diehl

Associated Programs:

South Asia Program

Related Research Focus:

Asia

Excerpt:

It is less than a month until Pakistan is due to hold a parliamentary election that could stabilize the country after months of political turmoil and terrorist violence, or plunge it deeper into chaos. So naturally some of the country's leading civilian politicians were busy campaigning last week -- in Washington. . .

Said Imran Khan, at an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The chances are that we will have a Kenya-type situation where people are not going to accept the election result."

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