News. And now, in a change of programming, Stephen Sackur speaks to the former Prime Minister of pakistan, imran khan, in an interview recorded in lahore, on wednesday. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. How grave is the risk of pakistan spiralling into political and Security Chaos . Terror attacks continue to impose a heavy toll whilst the nation braces for a potentially destabilising election season. And at the heart of the political turbulence, my guest today, former Prime Minister imran khan, currently facing close to 200 charges which threaten his pti partys ability to mount an electoral challenge. Has pakistans populist political star been outmanoeuvred by the generals who once backed him . Imran khan, in lahore, pakistan, welcome to hardtalk. From the outside, mr khan, it looks as though a legal noose is tightening around your neck. Does it feel that way to you . Yes, stephen. Its been like that for a while, ever since i was out of power 1a months, 15 months ago. What was h
Does it feel that way to you . Yes, stephen. Its been like that for a while, ever since i was out of power 1a months, 15 months ago. What was hoped by the establishment which removed me, what they hoped was that the party would just fizzle away. And normally it happens when youre out of power, youre out of power for quite a while. But instead, what happened . The most unusual thing in this country that the partys popularity kept growing, and that in the by elections that took place, out of 37 by elections, my party swept 30 of them. And this is despite the establishment backing the government parties. So since then, attempts are being made to knock me out of the game. I had two Assassination Attempts on me. And apart from that, now i have close to my double century almost 200 cases. And the whole attempt is to either imprison me or disqualify me or both. Yeah, you talk about being knocked out of the game. Isnt the reality, now that there are these pretty much 200 cases against you, whi
of us government lies about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and w
about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and was a model for me, rea