I don’t think many people sharing the news about the Resolution have actually read it. The Resolution also mentions the 2018 elections, which the BBC called the “dirtiest elections in years,” The Australian labeled Imran Khan as the Army’s Puppet, and Human Rights Watch termed controversial.
There was an equal media storm after the 2018 elections. PTI has managed to turn that media storm into a U.S. Congress Resolution through lobbying.
Last year, Imran Khan’s Zoom meeting with U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters also leaked, where he was pleading with her for a statement.
Over the past year, the Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee (PAKPAC) has raised $141,660. They spent that money on various candidates to lobby them, along with the firm hired by PTI in D.C. to assist with their lobbying efforts.
PAKPAC raised $5,000 for Friends of McCormick and contributed $5,000 to Richard McCormick’s campaign. He is the one who sponsored Resolution 901 in the U.S. Congress.
The full list of candidates that PAKPAC has contributed to is available on OpenSecrets.
This is why PAKPAC was congratulated by Shahbaz Gill on Twitter. PAKPAC was celebrating candidates like Richard McCormick and sharing their videos.
Richard McCormick also sponsored the bill to censure Rashida Tlaib for her pro-Palestine comments. He has also received over $80,000 from pro-Israel lobbying. This is why you will see him supporting pro-Israel legislation regularly in the U.S. Congress.
