Grenell to Newsmax: Pakistan Should Free Imran Khan From Prison

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan should be released from prison, Ric Grenell told Newsmax on Tuesday.

Grenell, who has been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump as presidential envoy for special missions, told "Newsline" that he would "like to see Imran Khan be released from jail."

He added that there are "a lot of the same allegations just like President Trump, where the ruling party put him in prison and created some sort of corruption allegations and false allegations."

He stressed that Khan "wants to run for office and the people should decide."

Grenell emphasized that the United States "had a much better relationship with Pakistan during the Trump administration when ... Imran Khan was the leader ... because [he] was an outsider ... he was a former cricket player ... he wasn't a politician and he spoke in very common sense language, and he and Donald Trump had a very good relationship."

Grenell said. "Add Pakistan to the long list of subjects that Jake Sullivan and the Biden team have clearly decided that they have to make some progress here at the very end ... because they haven't made progress in the last four years. There are a whole bunch of issues that they are throwing out now to say, Oh we care, after ignoring the issue for four years."

Pakistan is developing long-range missiles capable of hitting the U.S., and this is one of the issues that will be facing the Trump administration as it takes office, according to the special envoy.

Grenell said that "if a nation has nuclear weapons, it changes the position of how we deal with them ... and Pakistan is one of those countries that has nuclear weapons and needs to be dealt with."

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