Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP)

A newly-formed coalition of American organizations focused on changing U.S. policy towards Pakistan. For more information, email [email protected]

[Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) @ChangePakPolicy]

BREAKING: US Congress escalates pressure on Asim Munir regime

44 US Congressmembers write to @SecRubio on Pakistan's "escalating crisis of authoritarianism"

They call for targeted sanctions in response to "Asim Munir’s central role in driving Pakistan’s crackdown on dissent"

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇰 Uzma Khan and Noreen Niazi Khan, sisters of imprisoned former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, were released Thursday after 53 days in custody, their lawyer confirmed. Their third sister, Aleema Khan, remains imprisoned.

All three were arrested ahead of a planned September 27 protest demanding the release of Khan, who has been jailed since August 2023. The arrests came amid a broader government crackdown on Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

🔗 Last month, Drop Site contributor Mehr Sher reported on the Pakistani government’s violent crackdown in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where authorities suspended the PTI-led provincial government. Read the full report below.

https://t.co/OBEhDqOrop

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Seven years ago today, Pakistani human rights advocate Idris Khattak was abducted and jailed on baseless charges. In government custody, he has been denied adequate medical care and subjected to solitary confinement. Khattak's arbitrary and brutal detention is a blatant attack on the fundamental rights of civil society activists in Pakistan. I urge the Pakistani authorities to immediately release Khattak and get him back to his family.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

In this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people & fueled by political corruption.

To deliver, we need new leadership. This isn't about any one person – it’s about answering that call.

That's why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.

[Mehlaqa Samdani @MehlaqaCAPJ]

The False Promise of Pakistan's Military - my piece in Foreign Policy in Focus @FPIF today:

Washington has made this bet before, and lost.

For decades, successive U.S. administrations supported Pakistan’s military rulers to advance their geopolitical agendas, overlooking—and at times reinforcing—authoritarianism in exchange for stability and cooperation.

The Trump administration is repeating the same bargain. It has defined counterterrorism, critical minerals, and managing regional competition with China among core U.S. interests. And yet, each of these is threatened by the very institution the United States has relied on to preserve them. The Democratic-controlled Congress now has an opportunity to reverse course.

https://t.co/0U2F4hFkX2

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

"On December 11th — Democrats should not vote for ANY appropriation bill that has ANY money in it for an illegal war in Iran. Period!

Make Trump "explain [a shutdown] to the American people"

"We don't have to wait 'til January. We should do that NOW"

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

🇵🇰 23 human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, working on the protection of lawyers, human rights defenders and freedom of expression, strongly condemn the recent sentencing of prominent Pakistani human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha to ten years’ imprisonment under anti-terrorism legislation and three years’ imprisonment under the Pakistan Penal Code.

The convictions mark a significant escalation in the extensive misuse of the criminal justice system against the two lawyers and raise serious concerns about the anti-terrorism legislation used to criminally punish and intimidate lawyers undertaking permissible human rights work.

Read here: https://t.co/wHNTH28Zpi

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Human rights lawyer couple sentenced to 10 years' prison in Pakistan https://t.co/ttPq64xLdf

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇰 A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced prominent human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, to 10 years in prison on Thursday. Their sentences will run concurrently with additional one-year and two-year sentences for obstructing and assaulting government servants.

Mazari and her husband were accused of holding a protest in 2024 that blocked a road, and thereby endangered an international cricket team’s security plans. They denied the charges, calling themselves “prisoners of conscience” targeted for their human rights work. Mazari’s mother, Shireen Mazari, a former member of Imran Khan’s cabinet, said that they were not allowed access to their lawyer or given key legal documents in the case.

The couple had earlier been sentenced to 17 years in prison for social media posts. That sentence was suspended by Pakistan’s Supreme Court—they were re-arrested for the 2024 protest on the same day.

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

PAKISTAN: Responding to the conviction and ten-year imprisonment of Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha today by the Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad, Yasmine Ahmed, Senior Director for Regional Human Rights Impact at Amnesty International, said:

“These convictions are an indictment of Pakistan’s justice system. This was not just Imaan and Hadi on trial, it was a test of the judiciary’s ability to uphold the principles of justice and the right to fair trial. It has failed that test miserably. It is clear that these ‘anti-terrorism’ charges are being used to punish Imaan and Hadi for their human rights advocacy.”

Read more here: https://t.co/fi4Iw7DFg8

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

🚨 ONE-CLICK — ASK YOUR US SENATORS TO SIGN the historic US Senate letter on Pakistan's human rights crisis

The letter demands:
-freedom for Imran Khan
-sanctions on Asim Munir
-no military aid without democracy

Email your two Senators here:

https://t.co/pOrlDbNNKY

[Erik Sperling @ErikSperling]

@MarioNawfal Please urge US citizens to use this tool to write their Senators and ask them to sign the letter to sanction Asim Munir and restrict US military training for the military regime

https://t.co/MW36a2SDpd

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

545 Californians have written to
@SenAdamSchiff @AdamSchiff
@SenPadilla @AlexPadilla4CA
asking them to sign the @SenMarkey letter on human rights in Pakistan

Write your senator and ask them to sign here:
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

NEW from @DropSiteNews: Pakistan’s military dictatorship is planning an offensive to crush Imran Khan’s base of support in KPK https://t.co/wORUlIhkht

[CPJ Asia @CPJAsia]

#Pakistan: CPJ calls on Pakistani authorities in Pakistan to withdraw new restrictions requiring journalists in the Balochistan province to obtain official confirmation before reporting on security-related incidents from Inter-Service Public Relations, the armed forces’ media and public relations agency of armed forces, or head of the provincial police. before reporting on security incidents Authorities must ensure timely access to information and safeguard independent reporting.

https://t.co/RLUszZKamQ

#PressFreedom

[Erik Sperling @ErikSperling]

Pro-democracy Pakistani-Americans have a critical opportunity to change the debate in DC

Every American citizen who wants the US to stop supporting Asim Munir's brutal regime should write their Senator and ask them to sign

WRITE YOUR US SENATOR HERE:
https://t.co/dmTjHOue5q

[Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) @ChangePakPolicy]

The time to act is now.

Support Senator Markey’s letter calling for Imran Khan’s release and holding Asim Munir accountable. Get your senator to sign on. Every voice matters. Support democracy in Pakistan.

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

🆕 Historic US Senate letter on Pakistan's human rights crisis

ONE-CLICK — ASK YOUR SENATOR TO SIGN:
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw

The letter demands:
-freedom for Imran Khan
-sanctions on Asim Munir
-no military aid without democracy

[Just Foreign Policy @justfp]

🆕 Historic US Senate letter on Pakistan's human rights crisis

ONE-CLICK — ASK YOUR SENATOR TO SIGN:
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw
https://t.co/pOrlDbOlAw

The letter demands:
-freedom for Imran Khan
-sanctions on Asim Munir
-no military aid without democracy

[Mehlaqa Samdani @MehlaqaCAPJ]

📢As a Massachusetts constituent, I'm grateful and proud that my senator, @SenMarkey, is leading a Senate letter telling Sec. Rubio: ENOUGH.

The letter calls for the release of Imran Khan and other political prisoners, targeted sanctions against officials responsible for serious human rights abuses, and human rights conditions on U.S. military assistance to Pakistan. It also raises concerns about transnational repression targeting Pakistani Americans and their families.

This is not about interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs. It is about ensuring that U.S. policy does not enable repression, undermine democratic institutions, or provide unconditional support to those responsible for human rights violations.

The future of Pakistan belongs to its people, not to Washington or its military establishment.

Please take 30 seconds to sign @justfp's letter and urge your U.S. senators to join Senator Markey in standing for human rights, democratic freedoms, and accountability. Ask your senator to sign 👇

https://t.co/gXl22QZCz4

[Hindus for Human Rights @Hindus4HR]

We stand with @CPJAsia in demanding #JusticeForArshadSharif. Journalists cannot be killed without accountability. Pakistan’s authorities must ensure a transparent judicial process, establish the truth, and hold those responsible to account.

[Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) @ChangePakPolicy]

Free Imran Khan! 🇵🇰 Urge your senator to support Senator Markey’s letter calling out Asim Munir by name and demanding Imran Khan’s release. https://t.co/UOyaB8Vmtx

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇰 EXCLUSIVE: IMRAN KHAN'S SONS SAY THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO KILL THEIR FATHER!

I spoke again with Qasim and Sulaiman Khan, and this conversation was the most heartbreaking.

Not only is their father, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, still in solitary confinement, but his three courageous sisters, Aleema, Uzma and Noreen, have now also been arrested

And when @PTIofficial supporters hit the streets, many were arrested, beaten, and even killed!

Imran Khan’s sons say they haven't spoken to their father in over 6 months, nobody has seen him for 2 months, and they're increasingly worried about his deteriorating health.

I asked them the hardest question of all: Do they still believe they’ll ever see their father again?

Qasim admitted, he has very little hope, but they will never stop fighting

I told them both I wouldn't give up hope.

And I meant it.

@Kasim_Khan_1999