Explained: What Imran Khan said, what he meant

This is the first time an elected Pak leader has admitted to the presence of jihadists in such huge numbers. As the international community tightens the screws, Imran may have been sending the world a message

On Wednesday, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan told an audience at the United States Institute of Peace, a Washington-based think tank, that there were “30,000 to 40,000 armed people” in his country “who have been trained to fight in some part of Afghanistan or Kashmir”.