{"id":205756,"date":"2024-02-12T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/things-are-absolutely-bonkers-in-pakistan-right-now\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:54","slug":"things-are-absolutely-bonkers-in-pakistan-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/things-are-absolutely-bonkers-in-pakistan-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are absolutely bonkers in Pakistan right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In one of the wildest recent stories in global politics, former Pakistani cricket star-turned-Prime Minister Imran Khan used AI-generated voice cloning to deliver a victory speech after his party won a national election<\/a>\u2014and he did it from behind bars.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy Pakistanis, you have made history. I am extremely proud of you,\u201d said Khan\u2019s AI voice clone in a video uploaded to X on Friday<\/a>. \u201cDespite two years of facing extreme brutality and injustice, we have won the 2024 election with a two-thirds majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pakistan-born, Oxford-educated Khan rose to national celebrity as a cricket star in the 1990s; he captained Pakistan\u2019s team to its first-ever World Cup win in 1992. Khan then parlayed his fame into a political career, founding his own party, named PTI, in 1996. After years of slow but steady electoral gains, Khan was voted<\/a> Prime Minister in 2018, promising to create jobs and provide more services to the nation\u2019s poor<\/a>. That election, however, was marred by allegations of vote-rigging<\/a> and widespread violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Khan\u2019s fall from grace was swift. After taking office, he struggled to contain soaring inflation and maintain a good relationship with Pakistan\u2019s military, which wields considerable political influence. His opponents banded together and expelled Khan from office in April 2022, calling a no-confidence vote. Khan claimed his ouster was illegitimate and supported by the United States<\/a> in retaliation to Khan\u2019s neutrality regarding the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n

Things went from bad to worse for Khan when he was detained last fall on charges of leaking state secrets and profiting from his time in office. Khan and his wife are currently dealing with over 170 legal cases<\/a>, and they\u2019ve been in jail for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Improbably, though, Khan\u2019s political career is back on the rise. A wave of popular support has pushed him back into the political mainstream, and he\u2019s leveraged AI to help run a public-facing campaign from inside his jail cell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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