{"id":1538227,"date":"2024-03-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=462740"},"modified":"2024-03-06T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:00:00","slug":"u-s-endorses-pakistans-sham-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/06\/u-s-endorses-pakistans-sham-election\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Endorses Pakistan\u2019s Sham Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22us-endorses-pakistans-sham-election%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) -->\n<div class=\"acast-player\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/us-endorses-pakistans-sham-election?accentColor=111111&#038;bgColor=f5f6f7&%23038;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] -->\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">The U.S. State Department<\/span> this week congratulated Pakistan&#8217;s new prime minister on assuming power, following elections that were marred by widespread allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/09\/pakistan-election-military-pti\/\">rigging, voter suppression, and violence <\/a>targeting supporters of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan. On a special crossover episode of Intercepted and Deconstructed, hosts Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim discuss the aftermath of Pakistan&#8217;s February 8 election, as well as growing <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/28\/congress-pakistan-election-recognition\/\">calls inside the U.S.<\/a> to hold Pakistan&#8217;s military-backed regime <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/11\/17\/imran-khan-pakistan-aid-congress\/\">accountable <\/a>for its ongoing suppression of democracy. Hussain and Grim also discuss U.S. interests in the region, and the historical ties between the Pakistani military and its supporters in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/06\/intercepted-pakistans-sham-election\/\">U.S. Endorses Pakistan\u2019s Sham Election<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/06\/intercepted-pakistans-sham-election\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allegations of widespread electoral fraud, rigging, and violence mar Pakistan\u2019s election. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/06\/intercepted-pakistans-sham-election\/\">U.S. Endorses Pakistan\u2019s Sham Election<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543418,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538227\/revisions\/1543418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}