Jessica smith

Geopolitical Analyst. Human Rights Activist. 🇿🇦

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

@IsmailWazir19 All they have achieved in these 20 years is destroying local homes, terrorizing civilians, and feeding the cycle of violence. You will never restore peace by dropping bombs on innocents. The people of #KPK know the truth—military operations are the problem, not the solution. 3/3

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

⚠️Watching #Pakistan repeat the exact same mistakes since 2004 is maddening

They launched massive military offensives in #Waziristan decades ago, claiming they’d wipe out the threat. 1/3

@burhan_uddin_0

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

Fast forward 20+ years later, and the situation is twice as dangerous. Why does the army think using the same brute force strategy will suddenly work now? 2/3

@IsmailWazir19

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

It’s the same cowardly state using the same violent methods against anyone who dares to demand basic dignity. If you didn’t speak up when they terrorized #Baloch mothers, look at #Kashmir today.

It’s a unified machinery of oppression! 2/2
@Saabzap

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

For decades, it was #Balochistan getting crushed under the boot

Then they turned the guns on #KPK.

Today, the exact same script of state terror, internet blackouts, and firing on unarmed protesters is playing out in #Kashmir.1/2

@noormullakhail5

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

When a state criminalizes basic dialogue and locks up peaceful dissenters, it creates the very desperation that fuels armed resistance. The West sees through the propaganda. This is a local fight against erasure. 2/2

@AJEnglish @ClaudeRakisits

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

#US, #UK, #France blocking Pak-China UN 1267 bid against the BLA and Majeed Brigade shatters Islamabad’s narrative

You cannot weaponize global terror laws when your regime has crushed every peaceful civil rights movement at home and jailed peaceful activists. 1/2
@speaknsee

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

If the army's use of force in #PoJK is so justified, why the total communication blackout?

They strike in the dark because they are terrified of the world seeing the truth. Censorship is the shield of a guilty regime. 2/2

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

First, they slap "anti-terrorist" labels on ordinary traders, students, and citizens who are simply protesting inflation and high prices

Then, they shut down the internet and cut off mobile networks so no one can record the blood on the streets. 1/2
@hyrbyair_marri @AsadAToor

[Taha Siddiqui @TahaSSiddiqui]

Total net shutdown & media blackout. LEAs firing at protesters killing at least 30. 100s arrested. Dozens disappeared.

All cuz the powerful want to steal elections.

This is NOT #Palestine or #Iran. But Pak administered #Kashmir.

Welcome to the terror reign of Gen #AsimMunir

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

At least 11 people were killed on Sunday in clashes between police and protesters in Pakistan-administered Kashmir before a major demonstration scheduled by a banned civil society group.

Al Jazeera’s @osamabinjavaid explains why.

[Obaidullah Baheer @ObaidullaBaheer]

This is the picture of the cracked head of a dead child targeted by Pakistan last night. Their own bred groups hit them and they hit children and women in Afghanistan. Three strikes and over a dozen civilians including 11 children martyred.

[The Diplomat @Diplomat_APAC]

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) is currently in the midst of a rapidly unfolding political crisis. https://t.co/LGR9zGbjb0

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

Targeting women destroys any fake claim of "legality" or "security" this regime clings to.

The world needs to see this lawlessness! 2/2

@AJEnglish

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

Where is the law in Pakistan?

state has turned Balochistan into a completely lawless warzone

they systematically disappeared the men, and now #AsimMunir’s forces are stooping to a new low by disappearing #Baloch women.1/2
@erinflorez01

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

➡️The elite's greed is draining Pakistan dry, and no amount of fake IMF stabilization propaganda can hide this collapse anymore. 2/2

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

⚠️It’s open season on the public while the elite protects its own interests.

➡️They refuse to tax real estate or agriculture because it hurts their own pockets.

➡️Instead, they freeze provincial development and destroy basic public services. 1/2
@nadeemhaque

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

It was never a cause, it’s just a business model for the generals! 2/2

@AsadAToor @Matiullahjan919

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

#Pakistan doesn't care about #Kashmiris. The truth is out: they only want Kashmir so their greedy military has another territory to loot and another population of innocent civilians to target. 1/2
@ClaudeRakisits @DerekJGrossman

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

and it raises a hard question: when a system protects authority more than citizens, can it still claim to represent them?

because over time, governance is judged not by slogans, but by lived reality. 2/2

[Jessica smith @Jessica3cv]

#Pakistan, human security never really feels like the priority.

What is always prioritized is institutional security and the preservation of power structures.

but people — in #Balochistan, #KPK, or even #AJK — keep facing instability, protests, and unrest. 1/2
@KiyyaBaloch