U.S. HELPED PAKISTAN GET IMF BAILOUT WITH SECRET ARMS DEAL FOR UKRAINE, LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL

The Intercept ^ | Sept 17 2023 | Murtaza Hussain

[euram]

The U.S.-brokered loan let Pakistan’s military postpone elections, deepen a brutal crackdown, and jail former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

SECRET PAKISTANI ARMS sales to the U.S. helped to facilitate a controversial bailout from the International Monetary Fund earlier this year, according to two sources with knowledge of the arrangement, with confirmation from internal Pakistani and American government documents. The arms sales were made for the purpose of supplying the Ukrainian military — marking Pakistani involvement in a conflict it had faced U.S. pressure to take sides on.

[existentially_kuffer]

Hmmm... “Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, a right-wing rebel group, in Nicaragua.”

Looks familiar, this is suddenly ok because of Biden’s wizardry?

[struggle]

They really screwed Imran Khan over.

[Pete Dovgan]

Hmmm... “Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, a right-wing rebel group, in Nicaragua.”

Looks familiar, this is suddenly ok because of Biden’s wizardry?

Iran attacked the US. Pakistan protected Bin Laden. The respective US governments broke laws to cut deals. No difference.

[bertmerc1]

Iran Contra, first thing I thought of....

[AnotherUnixGeek]

SECRET PAKISTANI ARMS sales to the U.S. helped to facilitate a controversial bailout from the International Monetary Fund earlier this year,

Wait, so Biden and the Pentagon got Pakistan to sell us back some of the arms that US taxpayers give Pakistan every year so our government could then turn around and give those arms to Ukraine - and in return our government helped Pakistan get a bailout from the IMF. Is that everything, or is there more to this spaghetti-ball of evasion of Congressional oversight and shady dealings?

[4Runner]

Iran attacked the US. Pakistan protected Bin Laden.

When did Iran attack the US?

The 9/11 terrorists were all Saudi Arabians. On 9/11 the Saudi Royal Family members who were in the US at the time were all flown back to their country courtesy of our military, while all US airports had been shut down.

In 1988, the United States launched Operation Praying Mantis against Iran, claiming that it was retaliation for the Iranian mining of areas of the Persian Gulf as part of the Iran–Iraq War. The American attack was the largest American naval combat operation since World War II.

Is that what you are referring to?

[MarMema]

Khan was for his people and rejected our nannying.