Waqas Ahmed

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

The Defence Minister is right. It’s why I have never been considered Jewish by the Jewish community. My mother was a Church of England Protestant. And by this logic, my father was not Jewish either. His mother was a French Catholic. As ever, in attempting to undermine my sons, Pakistan’s Defence Minister has scored an embarrassing own goal.

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi, and approximately one thousand others are illegally imprisoned. Over 40,000 have been imprisoned and subsequently released on bail over the past 3 years. Those on bail are facing fake trials across Pakistan.

When judges tried to dispense justice, this illegal government and their masters passed the 26th Amendment. This gave them the freedom to remove or bypass judges who wanted to honour their oath and dispense justice. The amendment did away with seniority. The Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court, Sarfraz Dogar, was hand-picked. He has been tasked with ensuring that Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi are not granted bail. That is why he refuses to entertain their bail petitions.

The Chief Justice of Pakistan was also selected out of turn. CJP Yahya Afridi should have stood by the three Supreme Court judges who ordered that Imran Khan be transferred to Shifa International Hospital for an independent medical examination and treatment.

Yesterday, 16 September 2026, we witnessed the collapse of the Supreme Court when those same judges did not proceed with the contempt-of-court hearing against the government. The Attorney General did not even bother to appear for the contempt-of-court hearing!

In 2007, the lawyers brought down the dictator General Musharraf when they came out onto the streets to stand with the judiciary and defend the rule of law. In 2007, dictator Musharraf had removed only the Chief Justice without due process.

In 2026, the entire judicial system has collapsed. In 2007, we all stood with the lawyers for the restoration of the Chief Justice of Pakistan. In 2026, we will stand with the lawyers for the restoration of justice in Pakistan.

Pakistan Insaaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) should take the lead immediately and without delay. The collapse of the judicial system will lead to anarchy, something Pakistan can ill afford! The time to stand for justice, the judiciary, and the rule of law is now!!!

[Mufti Menk @muftimenk]

Almighty. Protect us from the evil around. Grant us strength and good patience to cope with our trials. Help us surrender to Your Decree because You know what we don’t. You know what we need. You know what’s best for us. Aameen.

[Waqas Ahmed @Waqasaay]

@MazherArshad A country run by corrupt and fascists cant deliver any good in any aspect of life.

[Mike atherton @Athersmike]

Strong editorial today in @thetimes on Imran Khan

https://t.co/Rik2msS4Tq

[Aun Ali Khosa @aun_khosa]

اب کہیں رمیز راجہ کی گاڑی سے چرس برآمد نہ ہو جائے

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves

[Tayyaba Rajah🇵🇰 @tayyabarajah]

مجھے ان محترمہ سے بس اتنا پُوچھنا ہے کہ کیا یہی اجازت میرے والد صاحب کو ان پولیس والوں کے لئیے تھی جنہوں نے مجھے بالوں سے سڑک پر گھسیٹا تھا؟ مارا تھا؟ گالیاں دیتے ہوئے پریزن وین میں ڈالنے کی کوشش کی تھی؟ کیا ان کے ساتھ بھی یہی کرنا چاہئیے تھا؟ میرا والا واقعہ تو پوری دنیا نے دیکھا۔
یا پھر اب عزت بھی صرف ادارے کی بہن بیٹیوں کی ہی ہے باقی کسی کی نہیں؟

باقی طلباء نے اگر واقعی کوئی زیادتی کی ہے تو اسکا کوئی نا کوئی ثبوت ضرور ہوگا۔

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[Student Biryani @JaanwarNeutral]

First night after three years not in a sweltering, suffocating hot box but on an actual bed, in a clean room. A man in his 70s went through all of this because he thought he owed his nation something?

He lived it. For years.

[PTI @PTIofficial]

𝐈𝐦𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬!!

[Shiffa Z. Yousafzai @Shiffa_ZY]

عمران خان کی قید کو آج تین سال پورے ہونے پر صرف اتنا ہی کہنا ہے کہ عمران خان نے اپنا کام کر دیا۔ چاہے آگے ملک کی سیاست کیسی بھی ہو، عمران خان نے عوام کو وہ شعور دے دیا کہ جو اب زہنوں سے مٹ نہیں سکتا اور concepts اب بالکل کلیئر ہو گئے ہیں گڈ مڈ بھی نہیں ہو سکتے جیسے پہلے تھے۔

اللہ تعالی عمران خان کو صحت یابی اور ثابت قدمی عطا کرے! آمین۔

[Maryam Riaz Wattoo @soulful7867]

Rauf sahib, I'm well-versed enough in using Google, but I don't need to on this particular matter. You, however, might — perhaps rewrite your tweet after doing so.

Use Google, Grok, or Claude to look into what Khan sahib actually did. If that's beyond you, maybe one of the Gen Zs around you can help.

I was simply pointing out your bias and lack of grace on this particular day. You simply proved my point again

[Moeed Pirzada @MoeedNj]

Just take One Achievement: Imran Khan’s bold & principled leadership of Pakistan during COVID, his refusal to “Lockdown” despite unprecedented elitist pressure (from Army Chief, Political, Bureaucratic, Corporate & Media elite) saved lives of millions of poor Pakistanis (compare with India). Khan repeatedly said: “No Lockdown will kill poor! Economy will be destroyed”
Imran’s vision & smart strategies paid: Pakistan was rated globally amongst the top 3-5 top countries in terms of Covid Management. It was Khan’s humanism derived from his deep understanding of the spirit of Islam - Do you need more evidences? @KlasraRauf

[Samina Pasha @pasha_samina]

ریاست سے وفاداری کرو
حلف کی پاسداری کرو!

simple اینڈ short

[Hussain Nadim @HNadim87]

Imran Khan will not come out through any deal with the military regime.

He will emerge from its collapse.

[Samina Pasha @pasha_samina]

کل تک بھارتی طلبا کو ڈنڈے پڑنے پر تکلیف میں چیخیں مارنے والے آج راولاکوٹ کے حالات پر اندھے اور گونگے بنے بیٹ��یں ہیں۔ایسے ہی منافقین لعنت کے مستحق ہیں۔

[PTI @PTIofficial]

ہمارے ملک کی اشرافیہ اور فوج نے ہمارا کیا حال کردیا ہے!

معید پیرزادہ بھی جذباتی ہوگئے کیونکہ ہر محب وطن پاکستانی جو شعور رکھتا ہے باضمیر ہے، اس کا دل دکھتا ہے خون جلتا ہے.

سنیں کہ جب پاکستان میں عوام نکلی تو کس طرح ۲۰۲۲ میں لانگ مارچ سے پہلے ہی پولیس اور ایجنسیاں ہزاروں گھروں میں گھس گئے، عورتوں بچو�� بزرگوں تک کو تشدد کا نشانہ بنایا.

ارشد شریف کو قتل کیا اور ماں انصاف کی فریاد کرتے روتی ہوئ خالق حقیقی سے جا ملی.

عمران خان کو وزیر آباد میں قتل کرنے میں کوئی کسر نہیں چھوڑی گئی لیکن اللہ نے بچالیا.
زمان پارک پہ پولیس رینجرز ایسے حملہ آور ہوئے جیسے لیاری میں گینگ وار ہورہی ہو.

ہمارا مان تھا کہ فوج ہم پہ گولی نہیں چلائے گی لیکن اسلام آباد کی سڑکوں پہ سینکڑوں لوگ بھون دیے گئے اور لاشیں تک غائب کردی گئیں.

@MoeedNj

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎬 Actor Morgan Spector calls for sanctions on Israel, and says U.S. should treat it as an adversary.

🔸Spector said he shared the attached remarks on his Instagram after watching footage of a Palestinian child in Gaza standing before the shrouded bodies of his parents and siblings, killed after a fresh strike 5 days ago.

🔸“You have to pick a side,” he said, adding that politicians who describe Israel’s actions as genocide need to accept the responsibilities that follow.

🔸Calling on the U.S. to support Palestinians “materially and diplomatically and militarily,” including through sanctions and concrete policy, he said Washington must begin treating Israel “not as an ally but as an adversary.”