(The so-called threat letter in all probability is a crash telegram by the Pakistan Ambassador to the US about an informal conversation with an Assistant Secretary-level officer of the State Department.) Imran Khan is trying to gain public sympathy by portraying himself as a victim of a US-hatched conspiracy to oust his government.
The US State Department has denied that any government agency or official sent such a so-called threat letter to Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan. The letter is covered under Official Secrets Act and cannot be disclosed in full to the Pakistani public at large, the department said.
Imran Khan has been let down by his own macho arrogance and immaturity of his two key advisors. While victimhood may fetch Imran Khan electoral votes in future, that the US is going to use a junior level State Department official to threaten Islamabad is unfathomable.
Yusuf Riaz Yusuf in an interview to Financial Times in August 2021 virtually threatened US President Joe Biden for not having made so much as a telephone call to Prime Minister Imran Khan. He said that Pakistan had other options (read China and Russia) if the US President continued to ignore Pakistan’s leadership.
