{"id":49657,"date":"2024-03-21T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49657"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:46:13","slug":"us-warns-pakistan-on-ties-over-election-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49657","title":{"rendered":"US warns Pakistan on ties over election irregularities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States said Wednesday that relations with Pakistan will suffer if it does not probe irregularities in last month&#8217;s election and rerun votes if needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donald Lu, the top US diplomat for South Asia, told lawmakers that the United States had &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; about the conduct of the February 8 election and ongoing disruptions of media and social media, including a prolonged shutdown of X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Election Commission of Pakistan, should it find that these irregularities are substantiated, should rerun elections where there&#8217;s been interference,&#8221; Lu told a sometimes raucous hearing of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have enjoyed 76 years of partnership with this country. It will be an impediment to our relationship if Pakistan does not have a democratic process that upholds its own constitution,&#8221; Lu said.<\/p>\n<p>Lu said the United States was not considering any major new military sales to Pakistan, a Cold War ally whose army and intelligence apparatus has long played a dominant role in politics and whose past links with Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban soured ties with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the election, former prime minister and cricket star Imran Khan was jailed and barred from running, with his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party subject to a crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States said Wednesday that relations with Pakistan will suffer if it does not probe irregularities in last month&#8217;s election and rerun votes if needed. Donald Lu, the top US diplomat for South Asia, told lawmakers that the United States had &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; about the conduct of the February 8 election and ongoing disruptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[882],"class_list":["post-49657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-us-warns-pakistan-on-ties-over-election-irregularities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}