This is what my sons are up against- acid attacks & beatings by goons IN THE UK against outspoken critics of the current Pakistani government / Army. Trial next year.
https://t.co/PY2dvCyXUR
27 ستمبر کے خوف نے اس نظام کو حواس باختہ کر دیا ہے۔
صوبائی وزیر آبپاشی ریاض خان اور صوبائی وزیر ایکسائز اینڈ ٹیکسیشن سید فخر جہاں کے گھروں پر نامعلوم افراد کے چھاپے، آخر یہ خوف کیسا ہے کہ سیاسی مخالفین کے گھروں تک پہنچنے کی نوبت آ گئی؟
چادر و چار دیواری کا تقدس پامال کیا جا رہا ہے۔ طاقت کے یہ حربے سیاسی آوازوں کو دبانے کے بجائے حالات کو مزید سنگین اور فاصلے مزید وسیع کریں گے۔
Responding to the arbitrary detention of members of former prime minister Imran Khan’s family, including his three sisters, as well as activists from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ahead of the party’s planned protests and march on 27 September:
“The targeting of Imran Khan’s family and PTI party activists is a flagrant violation of their rights to liberty, freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. Such actions speak to the severity of the current restrictions in Pakistan.
“The pre-emptive arrests of PTI members come ahead of planned country-wide protests by the party on 27 September, which government officials have openly vowed to stop. Roadblocks are already being erected in Islamabad. These developments do not bode well, especially given the authorities’ long track record of reckless and unlawful use of force against protesters. A protest cannot be deemed violent before it has even started. Pakistan’s authorities must uphold their obligations under international human rights law to facilitate peaceful assembly and refrain from unlawful measures to thwart these protests."
https://t.co/Kofe3r2LYu
"پاپا... آپ ظالم تو نہیں ہیں نا؟"
"انسان کو ایسا کام نہیں کرنا چاہیے جس پر اس کے اپنے بچے اور بزرگ اس سے شرمندہ ہوں... یاد رکھیں، ظالم اور ظلم اسی دنیا میں بے نقاب ہو جاتے ہیں۔"
ضمیر کی عدالت اور بچوں کی معصومیت سے جڑا ایک ہلا دینے والا پیغام۔ ہر صاحبِ اقتدار اور اختیار کے لیے لمحہ فکریہ!
#ستمبر27_مارچ_ہو_کر_رہے_گا
There is little choice left for the people of Pakistan.
Either remain silent while their chosen leader is imprisoned. Whilst his family is detained, his party is suppressed and justice is denied - or come out peacefully and exercise their fundamental right to protest.
You can arrest families and threaten people with violence. But you cannot imprison 250 million Pakistanis or crush the will of a generation.
No regime is more powerful than its people. The world must watch as the people of Pakistan come together to demonstrate their plea for justice, even in the face of threats of violence.
Inshallah, Pakistan’s future will be decided by its people, not by criminals who rule through fear.
🚨🇵🇰 BREAKING:
Imran Khan’s family has just released a statement on the detention of his sister, Aleema Khan, and the police operation that followed at their family homes in Lahore.
According to the family, Aleema left home on Sunday and NEVER returned...
Her car was later found at a police station, before they learned she had been DETAINED under Pakistan’s Maintenance of Public Order law.
Police then surrounded the family homes before launching a MASSIVE overnight raid, during which Imran’s other sisters, Uzma Khanum and Noreen Niazi, were detained alongside several relatives and staff.
The family alleges officers kicked down Uzma’s bedroom door, dragged staff from their quarters, and detained family members before taking them away in an armored police vehicle...
They further allege that 20+ officers entered an upstairs section where Aleema’s daughter-in-law was alone with her daughters, aged 2 and 7, attempted to arrest her, and later took her and the frightened children around the house to identify CCTV cameras and recording equipment, which officers proceeded to destroy.
The family says Uzma and Noreen were ultimately separated from the others and transferred to jail, while relatives were given ZERO information about where the sisters had been taken... lawyers and family members have subsequently been denied access to them.
The operation came days ahead of PTI’s planned Sept. 27 March on Islamabad, as Imran remains imprisoned; his sisters had been prominent public links between him and the outside world...
Once again, the Khan family has suffered OUTRAGEOUS human rights abuses that the international community needs to URGENTLY look at!!!
Source: Family of Imran Khan / Writer: Mhedi
Members of former prime minister Imran Khan's family, including his three sisters, as well as activists from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have been arbitrarily detained.
The targeting of his family and PTI party activists is a flagrant violation of their rights to liberty, freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. Such actions speak to the severity of the current restrictions in Pakistan.
Amnesty International calls on the Pakistani authorities to immediately release Imran Khan’s relatives and PTI workers, who have been targeted simply for their familial ties, political affiliation and plans to protest.
"It's a peaceful protest... but at the same time, we're extremely worried what's going to happen to the people that come out."
Zulfikar Bukhari, international relations adviser to Imran Khan, says he fears further state backlash against a protest march planned by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, the party of Pakistan's jailed former PM Imran Khan.
Pakistani security have in the past 24 hours arrested and detained Khan's sisters for 30 days as well as raiding properties of other family members.
#ImranKhan #Pakistan
Imran Khan's son has told Sky's chief presenter @MarkAustinTV that his family members have been arrested ahead of a protest march.
Former Pakistani prime minister Mr Khan has been imprisoned for more than three years.
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