Pakistan, May 24 -- Former prime minister Imran Khan repeated his claims Monday that the United States had orchestrated his ouster, saying that "anti-Americanism" was growing in the South Asian nation as a result of "all this becoming public."

Khan's exclusive interview with CNN was his first with an international news organization since the cricketer-turned-politician was unseated in a vote of no-confidence.

The former prime minister said that Donald Lu, the Assistant Secretary for the US Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, threatened "Pakistan will suffer consequences" unless Khan was removed from power. Khan even suggested in the interview that Lu be fired for interfering with Pakistan's domestic politics, and "for bad manners...