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US links Pakistan's economic growth to political stability
Voice of America
FILE - Parliamentarians of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party carry posters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, during a protest outside the Parliament house in Islamabad on July 18, 2024. FILE - Donald Blome, then-U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem, speaks in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, on Oct. 10, 2017. FILE - Police officers take arrested female workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from the party's headquarters into a police van after a security raid in Islamabad on July 22, 2024. FILE - Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman speaks to VOA’s Persian Service in Washington, Jan. 24, 2017.
The United States urged Pakistan Wednesday to protect the rights of all citizens, including freedom of expression and assembly, as a military-backed crackdown on the opposition party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan continues.
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