A new round of a decades long struggle for power between pakistans military and politicians the opposition says the military is helping the government in ways it shouldnt but focused on is this just politics as usual this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im in wrong car now obviously not the pakistani Prime Minister but we will be talking quite a lot about him because pakistans opposition seems to be directly challenging the powerful military establishment saying it has too much political influence leaders of the 2 main opposition parties and smaller groups came together in a slum bought on sunday to form the Pakistan Democratic Movement it plans nationwide protests against military involvement in politics Prime Minister imran khans party denies getting help from the army to win the election 2 years ago. Pakistans Army Generals have a long history of political meddling since its foundation in 1947 pakistanis have spent more than 30 years under military rule and it has had
Welcome to news asia glad you could join us a former senior general of the Pakistan Army is facing accusations that he used his influence to build a sprawling Business Empire spending 99 companies and 4 countries. Is currently chairman of a joint china Pakistan Economic project and a special assistant to pakistan Prime Minister imran khan a news website in the country has alleged that as was promoted through the ranks in the army his Family Business is that comprise speeds of chains and realistic that expanded general bargewell has denied the allegations against him and his family but did have. Any has been following the story and he joins me now from moscow is it give us a sense of who general bods what is and how hes so influential. Well general budget has been an important member of pakistans paul the structure for nearly 2 decades now he has served 4 Different Army chiefs starting with president general musharraf in 2002 but it was really doing his job as the Spokes Person of the b
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Welcome to news asia glad you could join us a former senior general of the Pakistan Army is facing accusations that he used his influence to build a sprawling Business Empire spending 99 companies and 4 countries. Amount of a joint china Pakistan Economic project and a special assistant to pakistan Prime Minister imran khan a news website in the country has alleged that as was promoted through the ranks in the army his Family Business is that comprised speeds of chains of brands to get expanded. General bargewell has denied the allegations against him and his family but did have. Any has been following the story and he joins me now from moscow is it give us a sense of who general bods what is and how hes so influential. Well the general budget has been an important member of pakistans paul the structure for nearly 2 decades now he has served 4 Different Army chiefs starting with the president general musharraf in 2002 but it was really doing his job as the Spokes Person of the Pakistan
Its 9 00 in the morning in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington where the us house of representatives is set to vote later on wednesday on whether to impeach donald trump. Its over claims that he threatened to withhold military aid from ukraine unless it investigated his leading democratic rival in next years president ial election joe biden and his son. In a letter to the house speaker, nancy pelosi, mr trump called the impeachment process an illegal, partisan attempted coup, that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. The democrat controlled house is expected to vote in favour, which would lead to a trial in the senate, probably in january. Heres the president speaking earlier. This has been a total sham from the beginning. Everybody knows it. Ive never seen the Republican Party so united. We got, as you know, 100 of the vote. I believe the senate is equally as well united. I watched Mitch Mcconnell this morning, i watched numerous people last nigh