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What is going on in Pakistan? And why has the US been dragged into it?

  • Written by Ayesha Jalal, Professor of History, Tufts University
What is going on in Pakistan? And why has the US been dragged into it?Still Pakistan's poster boy? Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images

Pakistan, a nuclear nation that is home to some 220 million people, is in a political mess.

On April 3, 2022, Prime Minister – and former national sporting hero – Imran Khan dissolved Parliament to get ahead of a no-confidence vote. That vote would have seen parliamentarians...

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