The moment of attack. And a danger to life warning has been issued as a storm 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. Just in lahore on wednesday. A matter of days before i arrest just a matter of days before his arrest and sentencing earlier today. 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 lo
And now, in a change of programming, Steven Sacker 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 hoped by
Defending champions, the usa. The match was decided by a tense penalty shootout. Now on bbc news, hardtalk with imran khan. This interview was recorded before he was sentenced to three years in prison on saturday. 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
That was being shipped . Oh, yeah. And thats because ijust inspect certain areas. So in totality, with all the inspectors, if you total them out, yeah, youd be over the hundreds. Now, you were picking up on these faults, you were highlighting them, you were flagging them up to be repaired. What kind of response did you get from your managers . Did they support you . My managers werent always there. The Production Managers always made a fuss about why i was finding it, why i was looking at it, and they made a big fuss about everything that i ever found. And it was because of the stage of where the plane was. If im looking at a plane thats supposed to be getting shaped and im the last person to see it, i shouldnt be finding missing fasteners, missing parts and things like that. So why were they not thanking you for picking up on these things . They just wanted the product out. They werent focused on the consequences of shipping bad fuselages. They were just focused on meeting the quotas,