Assalamu alaikum guys.
And welcome to another episode of Smile2Jannah.
I'm joined here at the side.
Got some birds here, got some pigeons here.
But that's not what's important.
Yeah. Stop trying to go on a tangent.
What's more important is what's going on in Pakistan?
Yeah.
And a lot of issues
have been going on in Pakistan in the last couple of days.
I would say the last week or so, where majority of the parties have voted
to get rid of the current prime minister, Imran Khan.
Now, Pakistan is a very strategic country, it's a nuclear power
It's important to have Pakistan as an ally because then you can have influence
and control over China, and over Afghanistan and ultimately Russia.
So it does make sense why Pakistan hasn't had stable leadership for a while
because of, you know, other interferences. All right, guys so,
I'm not going to be talking about
Imran Khan's policies and the internal politics within Pakistan.
I'm going to be talking about the foreign influence
of this no confidence vote.
And let's face it, Pakistan's uneasy relationship with America.
That's what we want to talk about now.
As you guys heard, Shahbaz Sharif, who's the leader of the opposition,
he's of the mentality that "beggars can't be choosers".
Beggars can't be choosers.
Please understand that.
In other words, Pakistan is a beggar.
We're not in a economically stable position.
And that's why we need to be okay with how these countries
treat us, especially the United States.
Pakistan off course is going through issues with regards
to paying back its IMF debt, inflation, low currency, and that,
that is now arming the people against Imran Khan. Why?
Because in a book called Sway by Ori Brafman,
he says "Fear of loss, drives irrational behaviour".
So you can see, I think, look, we know the influence and impact
that America has had on Pakistan- post-9-11.
We know all that sort of stuff. Yeah.
But now you've got people saying, "yeah but, we're beggars", so I mean "you can't choose".
What sort of mentality is this?
And then you compare it with Imran Khan.
Yeah.
And I want to show you this clip from HBO.
Will you allow the American government
to have CIA here in Pakistan?
To conduct cross-border counterterrorism missions
against al Qaeda, ISIS or the Taliban?
Absolutely not.
There's no way we're going to. Seriously.
Yeah.
So as you guys saw, the guy looked at Imran Khan and said,
"would you allow the CIA to come to the border of Pakistan
and interfere" in other ways, interfere in Afghanistan?
And then Imran khan goes "Absolutely not".
Absolutely not!
And look at the reporters face, the reporter's like, seriously? Seriously?
It's like the guy has broken character, Yeah look at his face.
Seriously? The guy did not expect that.
So I rate Imran Khan for that.
The point
I'm trying to say is naturally
the United States is going
to be cheesed off with Pakistan and they are going to opt for regime change.
And secondly, with this whole Russia Ukraine thing kicked off, Imran Khan
was at Putin's palace, as it were, and he didn't cancel his trip.
Now, that is somewhat understandable.
If you look at it from another side, if you've, like book to see Putin
and you've got Putin and his allies versus the West and his allies, then
if you cancel with Putin, what you're indirectly telling him
is "look we're siding with the US". Yeah.
So he did have to play a strategic battle because Pakistan
well, there's a pipeline between Russia and Pakistan,
so they want to develop a gas pipeline. But that wasn't the main thing
because when the US or UN, I mean you can use them interchangeably.
When they contacted Imran Khan and said, "look, you got to condemn Russia".
Imran Khan said, "look, was this condemnation there
with regards to what India did with Kashmir and stuff like that?"
So he was cheesed off because he's worked very hard with regards to the,
you know, pushing the Kashmir issue in a worldwide scale.
But he hasn't faced much support So Imran Khan goes
and this I know, this stung them.
After this whole, "Absolutely not" response.
He now said ...
Are we your slaves?
Shehbaz Sharif's of the opinion that yeah,
but Imran Khan is taking a different approach.
It's up to you what opinion you follow.
But what I'm saying is this didn't make things easy for Imran Khan.
I can imagine.
Yeah.
A lot happening in a very short period of time.
And the US is probably thinking yoo, now, you might be thinking what's this
constant US US US, Okay.
The US thing, it has come to the attention of Imran Khan.
And let me give you the evidence that they say.
They say the National Security Committee has said
that there is interference, there is outside interference.
Now, you might be thinking, "Zeeshan, look, cut the conspiracy stuff.
Are you siding with this guy or with that guy?"
No. Look, I told you from the beginning, I'm talking
at this issue from a foreign interference point of view.
I'm not saying it's there or it's not.
We're just analyzing what's happened in the past and let's look in the past.
Yeah.
You've got these democratically elected leaders
like Lumumba of Congo, Allende of Chile, Mossadegh of Iran.
And all of these guys were removed from power.
Yeah, they were removed from power.
So if democracy was so important, then why would these people,
these leaders be removed from power, be it from coup?
Patrice Lumumba, they trying to poison his handkerchief Yeah.
Jamal Abdel Nasser, who's another leader.
God knows what they were trying to do with him.
Poisoned his chocolates. Castro They tried to
poison his cigars.
And even Joao Goulart,
who was the leader of Brazil and Arbenz of Guatemala.
Yeah.
So we can see that there have been leaders of the past.
Yeah.
Most democratically elected the ones that I quoted.
But they have been removed.
So we do know America is capable of regime change
and all of this stuff is possible.
So, guys, as we can see, this possibility of foreign interference
is something that we do need to be taken seriously.
Because if we take the Shahbaz Sharif mentality "Ah beggars can't be choosers".
We're never going to improve.
Our situation is never going to become better.
I do understand his point of view that Pakistan is struggling
to pay back his debt and the country is not where it should be.
But we do need to take everything into consideration.
And when leader like Imran Khan comes, we shouldn't be so quick
to dismiss him, at least bare with it.
Let him complete his term and then remove him properly.
What's this? Oh, because there's inflation.
Get rid of him.
So a lot madness going on right along.
May Allah make it easy.
And ultimately, it's I think, it's a good step
to us getting our independence and not relying on Western powers
because Western powers look after their own interests, just like
we need to look after our interests. Whenever there's discussion of Sharia law.
But Sharia law, you want Islam to spread everywhere.
No, no way?
We just want Islam to stay in our homes.
Of course, we believe Islam to be true.
Why wouldn't we?
But not to force just like, oh, they want to spread democracy everywhere.
I believe that every ounce of my being, that democracy will and must prevail,
C'mon it's because they believe it to be the best form of governance.
Yeah, let's leave it there, guys.
Hope you guys benefited. Until next time.
As salaamu alaikum.