Whether it’s prompted by more state-initiated clashes, the banning of PTI, and/or the Interior Minister making good on his latest death threat against Imran Khan, there’s an increasingly high chance that the fascist post-modern regime will resort to a formal military coup on the pretext of “restoring order”. There’s no way that they’d do this without first feeling confident that they’ve secured American approval, which Washington might make conditional on Islamabad continuing to arm Kiev and even scaling up its exports.