🚨🇵🇰 Pakistan just LOCKED DOWN the capital to stop Imran Khan’s (many) supporters...
Authorities have deployed nearly 35,000 extra security personnel and blocked MAJOR highways with shipping containers, ahead of a planned march on Islamabad.
They've also detained HUNDREDS of PTI activists, including 3 of Khan’s sisters.
Two key roads linking the capital to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been entirely closed off.
Khan’s party says the protest will go ahead anyway...
The former PM remains in jail, with serious concerns over his health and a belief among many that the cases against him are politically motivated...
Hard to see it any other way.
Source: Reuters / Writer: Samuel
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.
عاصم منیر، گدی تو آپ کو چھوڑنی پڑے گی! آپ کی طاقت نہتی 70 سالہ نہتی عورتوں پر ہی چلتی ہے! جو طاقت یہاں دکھا رہے ہو یہ بلوچستان یا جنوبی پختون خواہ میں دکھاؤ نا!
میں جی ایچ کیو نہیں ہوں جو زمینوں پر قبضہ کرے۔ تمہارے جھوٹے الزاموں کا بھی مقابلہ کروں گا۔ کل ہی اوقاف کے نوٹس کے خلاف دعوا دائر کرونگا۔
میرے پاکستانیوں، خصوصاً نوجوانوں یہ اس GHQ کی ناجائز مَلَت سے چھٹکارا حاصل کرنے کا وقت ہے۔
27 کو اسلام آباد پہنچیں!
🇵🇰 INCREDIBLE STUFF!
Pakistan is sealing roads into Islamabad with shipping containers, some seemingly fitted with ROWS OF METAL SPIKES
ahead of Imran Khan’s PTI march on September 27
Authorities have already detained Khan’s sisters under public-order laws, arrested PTI figures and deployed extra security as the government vows to stop the march.
The awkward part for Washington is who sits atop Pakistan’s security system: Field Marshal Asim Munir, whom Trump has repeatedly praised as his “favorite field marshal,” while U.S.-Pakistan military cooperation has been warming again, including a proposed $686 million F-16 upgrade package.
That image is brutal:
American military cooperation on one side.
Shipping containers with spikes pointed at protesters on the other.
Writer: Oli
Deeply concerning to see Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former PM Imran Khan, arrested and detained for 30 days under the Maintenance of Public Order law — days before PTI’s planned Sept 27 protest.
I interviewed her in December about her brother’s imprisonment.
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The military regime of Asim Munir abducted Imran Khan’s whole family. His three sisters their children even little infants. This is cruel like Hitler. The world must speak. Shameful how western democracies close their eyes on all these violations of rule of law democracy human rights and freedom of speech. In Pakistan they are rather empowering this regime. The world must speak.
Today, my aunt, Aleema Khan, has been abducted by police in Lahore. Our family has been told nothing about where she has been taken. Her family and lawyers cannot reach her.
This is the behaviour of a fascist government - abducting people, terrorising families and trampling human rights, due process and the rule of law while pretending to stand for democracy.
First they imprisoned my father. Now they are coming after his family.
We demand immediate access to her for her family and lawyers, full disclosure of where she is being held, and her immediate release.
The world cannot keep looking away from what is happening in Pakistan.
My mother, Aleema Khan, was abducted after leaving home this morning. Our family has had no contact or news of her whereabouts. She is on bail in all cases against her in Lahore. We demand the government immediately disclose her whereabouts and ensure her safe return.
@Aleema_KhanPK
Cricket legend Imran Khan is rotting to death in a tiny jail cell in Pakistan. It's time Britain used its influence to help free him
https://t.co/Yf5eCx2fAi
علی محمد خان کا قومی اسمبلی میں پوائنٹ آف آرڈر پر اظہارِ خیال
• نبی پاک ﷺ کی حرمت، اہلِ بیتؓ، صحابہ کرامؓ، امہات المومنینؓ اور خلفائے راشدینؓ کی عزت و ناموس پر ہماری جان بھی قربان ہے، علی محمد خان
• اہلِ بیتؓ، صحابہ کرامؓ، امہات المومنینؓ اور خلفائے راشدینؓ کی شان میں گستاخی کی سزا سے متعلق قانون میں ترمیم ضروری ہے، علی محمد خان
• 298-A میں سزا کم ہونے کے باعث ایسے جرائم کے خلاف مؤثر قانونی کارروائی میں مشکلات ہیں، علی محمد خان
• قومی اسمبلی نے 17 جنوری 2023 کو متعلقہ بل منظور کیا، بعد ازاں 7 جولائی 2023 کو سینیٹ نے بھی بغیر کسی ترمیم کے اسے منظور کرلیا، علی محمد خان
• بل صدرِ پاکستان کے پاس منظوری کے لیے بھیجا گیا، نہ منظور ہوا اور نہ ہی واپس پارلیمان کو بھیجا گیا، علی محمد خان
• صدرِ پاکستان کی آئینی ذمہ داری ہے کہ بل منظور کریں یا اعتراض کی صورت میں پارلیمان کو واپس بھیجیں، علی محمد خان
• قومی اسمبلی کی جانب سے رولنگ آنی چاہیے کہ پارلیمان سے منظور شدہ بل پر آئینی تقاضوں کے مطابق فیصلہ کیا جائے، علی محمد خان
• اہلِ بیتؓ، صحابہ کرامؓ، امہات المومنینؓ اور خلفائے راشدینؓ کی حرمت کے تحفظ کے لیے قانون کو مؤثر بنانا وقت کی ضرورت ہے، علی محمد خان