Junaid Ahmad

Educator I Global Studies I Religious Studies I Law I Pakistan

[Junaid Ahmad @Academicatarms]

The Slience of the Sultans: Muslim Regimes and the Holocaust of our Time:
https://t.co/dTS80fF9pG

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Joseph Massad puts the treachery of the "Palestinian Authority" in perspective:

"Palestinian elites have been collaborating against the resistance for a century" https://t.co/kVbhDF9lmi

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

There is a peculiar genius among certain Muslim intellectuals in the West: they can detect Islamophobia everywhere except where naming it might cost them something. In Paris, they are forensic. In Delhi, incandescent. In Gaza, thunderous. In Washington, fluent in the grammar of empire. But when Muslim political agency is crushed in Pakistan, when Imran Khan is imprisoned and millions of his supporters are treated as civic contamination, the vocabulary collapses. The seminar goes quiet.

#Opinion by Junaid S. Ahmad

Read: https://t.co/e0m3HHttDQ

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

Imran Khan and the Islamophobia Industry that Buried Him

by Junaid S. Ahmad

https://t.co/EK9KOuvbXn

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

At a recent gathering of social scientists in Washington, DC, a Pakistani-American academic spoke movingly about Palestine. The vocabulary was polished, the grief sincere, the analysis appropriately grave. Then a Palestinian academic asked the question that should stalk every Pakistani and South Asian intellectual in the West: why are you so eloquent about Palestine and so silent about Pakistan? Why can you name Zionism but not Imran Khan? Why can you speak of genocide but not General Asim Munir, Trump’s favorite field marshal, presiding over Pakistan’s quasi-dictatorial order? Why does Pakistan — the country you analyze, inherit, visit, romanticize, and perform — become unspeakable precisely when it most needs speech?

#Opinion by Junaid S. Ahmad

Read: https://t.co/JPy6jaypXl

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Imran Khan was never good for western powers.
You know why?
Because he talked about issues that perhaps did not directly affect Pakistanis but certainly directly impacted and in turn galvanised Muslim diasporic communities in the west - issues that implicated western governments whose foreign policy DID ultimately affect the lives of Pakistanis.

Western powers love to both hold onto/perpetuate and exploit the idea of the inherently corrupt and backward “oriental” leader, which is why they’ve always only maintained close ties to the puppet leaders in the “orient” who fit that caricature.

But Imran Khan disrupted those myths by reclaiming his identity, not groveling to western leaders, and standing with such audacious pride and conviction on the global stage - honing on issues that have been largely ignored by our puppet leaders but actually matter deeply in the bigger global picture.

Issues like the global Islamophobia industry, colonialist, imperialist, Israeli-US agenda (namely their part in 9/11 and post 9/11 invasions and occupations), and the entire military industrial complex.

Sadly, some of these issues aren’t perceived to directly impact ordinary Pakistanis, so his national infrastructure related shortcomings were propagandized and Pakistanis found his leadership falling short.

But Imran Khan did what no other leader of that region has been able to do - he dramatically shifted something in the global political narrative for Muslims and galvanized people towards a movement rooted in dignity and freedom.

I believe his legacy will ultimately be that he opened up conversations on a global scale that those who remain internally and eternally colonized would never have had the audacity to do so.

And I believe the legacy of those who are responsible for his imprisonment will ultimately be colluders who “missed the forest for the trees” and became architects of their own demise.

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

The govt's decision to ban the Jammu & Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JKJAAC) is highly condemnable, but sadly, comes as no surprise. Questioning the state's authoritarian policies & particularly its hold on resources is the new definition of 'terrorism' is Pakistan.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

After blatant pre-poll rigging in Gilgit-Baltistan where PTI was not allowed to campaign, the state has banned Awami Action Committee in Kashmir. Repression during elections will only fuel resentment & create further instability. Reverse this suicidal policy before its too late.

[Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan | سینیٹر مشتاق احمد خان @SenatorMushtaq]

یہ ہے پاکستانی اشرافیہ کا سفاک چہرہ۔۔۔ان کے سکول، ہسپتال، بنک اکاؤنٹس،جائیدادیں سب سوئٹزرلینڈ/یورپ میں ہیں، یہ صرف اقتدار کیلئے پاکستان میں ہوتے ہیں، گلگت بلتستان میں ترقی کے انقلاب کی نوید سنا کر،صحت کی معیاری سہولیات ہر گھر تک پہنچانے کے وعدے،سبز باغ دکھا کر جناب نواز شریف صاحب روٹین کی صحت معائنہ کیلئے سوئٹزرلینڈ روانہ ہوگئے۔۔۔۔یاد رہے کہ یہ روٹین معائنہ بھی پاکستان میں کرنے کا اپنی شان کیخلاف سمجھتے ہیں باقاعدہ علاج معالجہ کا تو پاکستان سے سوال ہی پیدا نہیں ہوتا؟؟؟
اشرافیہ کے نام پر مافیا ہی پاکستان کے مسائل کا اصل ذمہ دار ہے۔

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

A new round of repression has begun. Raids against BNP's leaders in Balochistan, stopping PTI leaders from campaigning in Gilgit-Baltistan, FIR registered against opposition leader. Aim of these draconian measures is to distract from economic failures of this illegitimate govt.

[Junaid Ahmad @Academicatarms]

The Khaki Sultanate: How Pakist@ns's Army traded G@za for Washington.

https://t.co/E0T2GSpq0A

[PTI @PTIofficial]

“Imran Khan has become the sign under which tens of millions have confronted the nakedness of Pakistani power.” Professor Junaid Ahmed @Academicatarms
#FreeImranKhan

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

https://t.co/UqLfL7LFrw

[Mehlaqa Samdani @MehlaqaCAPJ]

The Pakistani-American diaspora is not monolithic-- not everyone thought Trump would be our savior. Glad to have said so on the record to @zeteo_news on behalf of @Alliance4PJ

"Mehlaqa Samdani, the executive director of the Community Alliance for Peace and Justice – which works to improve U.S. foreign policy towards Pakistan and Palestine – called the Trump endorsement “pathetic” and “horrible.”

“This whole Trump endorsement made [a] laughing stock out of this entire diaspora movement,” she told Zeteo.

Samdani pointed out that the Pakistani diaspora is, of course, not a monolith, and that there were groups like hers who were “vehemently against voting for Trump,” and were trying to get other groups to not support him, arguing he hadn’t guaranteed anything, that he couldn’t be trusted, and that an endorsement would be “throwing Muslim Americans under the bus” given his blatant Islamophobia seen in his first term."

https://t.co/Cu7Gv2oauw

[Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayin-e-Pakistan @TTAP_OFFICIAL]

"شہباز شریف نے کہا تھا کہ دہشت گردی کو ہم بالکل جڑ سے اکھاڑ پھینک دیں گے۔ ارے شہباز بابو! ارے شہباز بابو! آپ نے 25 کروڑ انسانوں کی رائے پہ حملہ کر کے دہشت گردی کی ہے۔ آپ دہشت گرد ہیں، آپ کا ساتھ دینے والے جرنیل دہشت گرد ہیں، آپ کا ساتھ دینے والے سپاہی دہشت گرد ہیں۔ دہشت گردی کیا ہوتی ہے؟ لوگوں کو ہراساں کرنا۔ اور پھر دہشت گردی کر کے، احرام باندھ کے کعبہ... خدا کو مانو۔ شرم جی، شرم جی بابا تم لوگوں سے تو وہ غالب غریب اچھا تھا جو قرض کی مے پیتا تھا کبھی کبھی۔ اس نے بھی کبھی سرور میں کہا:
​کعبہ کس منہ سے جاؤ گے غالب
شرم تم کو مگر نہیں آتی
​اللہ تم سے پوچھے کعبہ اللہ کے گھر کا... بے گناہ انسانوں کے ووٹ تم نے چرائے ہیں اور انہیں جیلوں میں ڈالا ہوا ہے۔"

قائد حزب اختلاف محمود خان اچکزئی

[Mehlaqa Samdani @MehlaqaCAPJ]

"For years, Pakistanis were instructed to disbelieve their own eyes. Imran Khan’s removal, they were told, was ordinary parliamentary procedure. The military was “neutral.” Washington was innocent. The generals were constitutional saints. The cypher was a prop, a fantasy, a wounded populist’s fever dream.

Then Drop Site News released the cypher in full."

Excellent article by @Academicatarms

https://t.co/v5MFcm64V4

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

In prison, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan reads two of my books, Washington Bullets and Darker Nations (as well as Fanon, Cabral, and Galeano), and sends this message:
'The US-Israeli killing machine knows no limits, gets complete obedience from its puppet regimes, and is not only at war with Muslims, but with all oppressed people everywhere. Our struggle is against both Pakistani and global tyranny'.

[Junaid Ahmad @Academicatarms]

From flag to flattery: Pakistan’s seventy-eight-year lease to foreign masters
https://t.co/r5b5w0Cl1r

[Junaid Ahmad @Academicatarms]

Pakistan’s Regime-Change Receipt: The Cypher and the Crucifixion of Imran Khan
"Some documents reveal policy. Others drag a regime into the light and strip it naked."
https://t.co/dWAr1CbeLc

[Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan | سینیٹر مشتاق احمد خان @SenatorMushtaq]

حکومت عمران خان کی بہنوں کی عمران خان سے ملاقات کیوں نہیں کرا رہے،کیا حکومت عمران خان کیساتھ ہونے والے ظلم کو چھپا رہی ہے؟؟؟سڑکوں کو بند کرنا۔ پر امن احتجاج کو جبر کے ذریعے روکنا۔ عمران خان کی بہنوں کو ملاقات سے روکنا۔ عمران خان کو طبی سہولیات فراہم نہ کرنا اور پھر پر امن شہریوں پر گولیاں چلانا بدترین جبر اور سفاکیت ہے۔ اس کی شدید الفاظ میں مذمت کرتا ہوں اور حکومت سے مطالبہ ہے کہ فوری طور پر عمران خان کے اہل خانہ سے ملاقات اور علاج معالجے کا بندوبست کیا جائے۔

[CODEPINK @codepink]

"If the vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister succeeds, all will be forgiven."

The US role in the coup against Pakistani PM Imran Khan is undeniable.

Yet, elected officials and journalists in the US remain overwhelmingly silent.

Where is the accountability?