Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan stated that he wished the United States to have a “dignified relationship” with Pakistan just like what it shares with India, in an interview with UK-based publication Financial Times. Imran Khan stated that India has a “very dignified” relationship with the US.

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“I basically want a dignified relationship with the US like India. India has a very dignified relationship with the US,” Imran Khan advised Financial Times. The remarks come following Imran Khan’s claims that the US conspired to take away him as prime minister a couple of months in the past.

Citing India’s choice to import Russian oil, Imran Khan stated that India says “no” to the US and takes precedence for its folks. Even Pakistan ought to be allowed to say no, Imran Khan asserted calling the ties between Islamabad and Washington as that of a “master-servant”.

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“Our relationship with the US has been as of a master-servant relationship, or a master-slave relationship, and we’ve been used like a hired gun. But for that I blame my own governments more than the US,” Financial Times quoted Imran Khan as saying.

“As far as I’m concerned, its over, its behind me. But, whatever the US desires could not have happened without people here who actively took part in the conspiracy to get rid of me,” Imran Khan additional stated.

Imran Khan was faraway from workplace by way of a vote of no-confidence in April this 12 months.