'On India, generals likely to enforce a thin red line on Imran'

August 20, 2018 11:51

"For all the army's perceived support of Imran Khan, Pakistan's new prime minister does not acknowledge it, does not like being called the army's 'ladla'," says Madiha Afzal, assistant professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy and Non-Resident Fellow at Brookings Institute and author of the well received recent book, Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State.

As Imran Khan took oath as Pakistan's new prime minister on August 18, Dr Afzal, who was raised in Lahore and Montreal, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih in an e-mail interview what India, Pakistan and US can expect from the cricketer-turned-prime minister.

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Image: Imran Khan and wife Bushra Bibi before the oath taking ceremony on August 18, 2018.

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