
Exclusive: Pakistan's Imran Khan doubles down on unfounded claim that US plotted his downfall
CNN
Pakistan's Imran Khan repeated his claims his claims that the US had orchestrated his ouster, saying that "anti-Americanism" was growing in the South Asian nation as a result of "all this becoming public."
Khan has been making versions of this claim for nearly two months, but has not provided evidence to support it.
Khan's exclusive interview with CNN was his first with an international news organization since the cricketer-turned-politician was unseated in a vote of no-confidence, following claims of bad governance and economic mismanagement.

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