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PAKISTAN: The repeated use of high-pressure water cannons by authorities against peaceful protesters outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi is a flagrant violation of their right to peaceful assembly. Pakistan authorities must respect people’s right to peacefully protest and end the disproportionate and punitive use of force.

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🇵🇰IMRAN KHAN’S SISTER FINALLY ALLOWED TO VISIT IMRAN KHAN: “THEY’RE TORTURING HIM”

Imran Khan’s sister, Dr. Uzma Khan, was finally granted a brief visit with him, but only after mounting public outrage and international media pressure over his forced isolation.

Khan, held in near-total solitary confinement, told her he is being mentally tortured, locked in a 6x8 cell, and allowed outside for only minutes a day.

He reportedly named General Asim Munir as the one behind his treatment, according to Dr. Uzma.

This is not justice, it’s calculated humiliation.

Source: @MrsSFaisall, @PTIofficial

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🇵🇰🇬🇧 IMRAN KHAN’S SONS: “NO PROOF OF LIFE” AFTER 25 DAYS IN SOLITARY - PAKISTAN’S JUNTA MIGHT BE HIDING A GRAVE

Kasim Khan, speaking from London exile, just dropped a bomb: 25 days.

Court-mandated weekly visits? Vaporized. Personal doc? Barred for 14 months.

“Psychological torture,” he calls it - not hyperbole, but the family’s raw scream after rumors of a secret transfer (or worse) torch X with WhereIsImranKhan trending like a funeral pyre.

Khan’s sisters - Noreen, Aleema, Uzma - camped at the gates last week, slapped and dragged by cops for daring a hello.

PTI’s Zulfi Bukhari nails the farce: “One photo, one call - boom, rumors die.”

But Islamabad? Crickets from the interior ministry, while a nameless jail hack mutters “he’s fine” off-record, and Khawaja Asif smirks about “5-star treatment.”

Khan is 72, carries injuries from the 2022 assassination attempt, and should be under public medical supervision. Instead: silence.

Meanwhile, the political theater continues. Military-backed courts push rapid-fire verdicts across opposition strongholds - corruption charges, graft cases, “terrorism” labels slapped on protestors - a conveyor belt of criminalization.

Protests erupt, and hundreds are arrested. Armored vehicles patrol the streets. Voices are drowned out with tear gas. Classic crackdown, not justice.

International partners? Still writing checks - billions in bailouts - while looking the other way.

Pakistan becomes a prison with a ballot-box prop. Khan’s voice is being erased so quietly it might never be heard again.

If by Eid 2026 we suddenly receive a “medical incident” notice - you’ll know the script.

Poisoned chai. “Heart failure.” Timed for maximum political quiet. And just like that: no martyr, no movement, just a body bag and a state without remorse.

Prove he’s alive, generals.

Because silence is the first sign that blood has already been spilled.

Source: Reuters, Indian Express, Times of India, The Daily Star

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#PAKWatch🇵🇰: Pakistan signed a series of high-priced lobbying contracts worth millions of dollars to buy Trump's support.

The corrupt Pakistanis know how to play the game.

YOU'VE GOT TO PAY TO PLAY.
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[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

Shredding Propaganda with Evidence: The @TheEconomist Article On Imran Khan

There is a reason why traditional media outlets, those big names, lost their credibility and viewership: they just don't pass the basic smell test.

Let’s run this article through a simple 3 step bias test I developed to analyze news articles.

1. Who wrote this?

OBJ is a big name, great, but Bushra Taskeen, the co-author makes the entire article questionable upfront and fails the bias test. Her Twitter timeline is full of political campaigns for PMLN, and poking fun at Imran Khan limping when he got shot, while frequently cheering for General Asim Munir.

The fact that she deleted her Twitter account to hide her bias makes this article even more questionable, and warrants a question to OBJ: Why her?

2. What did they write?

What’s written loses its meaning and credibility if the article fails at the very first step. Only in a rare case an article goes free from bias if its author(s) have a strong bias. But for the sake of it, let's run a comprehensive content and discourse analysis of the article itself.

As one would imagine, upfront there are both technical and logical problems that qualifies this article as a sensationalist tabloid piece:

a. It heavily relies on anonymous sources within "ISI" and Imran khan's former "cabinet", which is an instant red flag.

b. Here is where it gets super interesting. The primary sources that authors do name to inform the entire article includes: Faisal Vawda, Khawar Maneka, Aun Chaudhary, Jehangir Tareen, Talat Hussain, Imran Khan's former driver, and a local butcher (not kidding). The article practically selected sources from the most rigged sample that could be assembled. This is criminal level of journalist negligence, which makes one wonder, what exactly happened here? My hunch is that the audience of this article is Western power corners, not the people of Pakistan that can see through this.

c. Naturally, the analysis (read fantasy) that follows is a polished and more sophisticated version of 3 years of third-rated ISPR propaganda on magic, character assassination of Bushra Bibi, and Pakistan's most popular political leader, Imran Khan. Which explains why the entire Pakistani regime, and the army linked media is sharing the article as a 'big win' against Imran Khan. Perhaps some more reasons for OBJ to think about?

The article does not even try to provide a balanced view or contrarian position to some of the core assumptions being made about Bushra Bibi 'running' the government, or magic and voodoo nonsense. It just goes on with it, never questioning as a journalist must always do, in fact it quotes unknown sources from ISI and 'former cabinet member' to triangulate the unfounded assertions. Crazy!

There are several other inconsistencies which I’ll leave for readers to find out on their own but two that especially got my attention was 1) how in is so many words, the meta narrative of the article really is about Imran Khan, the naive, the superstitious, and an irrational leader - something that the liberal variant in Pakistan and GHQ has been pushing for years. And 2) the timing of the article which is strange. At a time when Pakistan is under martial law, and Imran Khan and his wife are in a prison cell for last 2 years, the decision to write a tabloid style article on actually the victims of a military dictatorship, is a strange choice which raises serious red flags.

3. What was not written

Well, as it is with most of the analysis on Pakistan, the oversized elephant in the room never gets addressed. The article fails to mention that such rumours, corruption scandals, and character assassination of political leaders, their wives, and families is a standard script in Pakistan's politics. Benazir suffered from it, so did anyone that tried to stand up against the Army including Imran Khan today.

But there would have been no sensationalist piece had the authors mentioned that upfront.

Tsk

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