Aman Bajwa

LUMS & NUST alumnus. Data Scientist at @IBM.
Big sucker for quiet corners, old books and good music.

[Aman Bajwa @amanirshd]

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Apple has removed Lebanese village names in Southern Lebanon.

As Israel invades, they are already setting the state to justify occupation.

I’ve never seen something like this.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

UN experts call on Israel to immediately release Dr Hussam Abu Safia, warning that the Palestinian physician from Gaza has been subjected to “severe torture” and other abuses in Israeli detention.

🔗: https://t.co/XkjLRPTRkB

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Being born on the wrong side of some artificial line on a map makes you unworthy of safety, dignity & opportunity 🤷‍���️

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

X didn’t liberate speech.
It monetized disinformation.

[Mimi 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @FacciniMyriam]

There you go. For those who still haven't understood.

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

This is why Elon Musk’s X platform was fined by the EU. Elon refused to follow the regulations that every other platform has to adhere to in the EU. This is not a “free speech” issue.

[M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 @MJibranNasir]

PTI workers and @ImranKhanPTI's family manhandled outside Adiala Jail. Aleema Khan expressly alleges that sister Naureen, visibly appearing to be in discomfort, was dragged on the street.

With every crime the usurpers feel more and more immune. Abductions, arrests, raids, military court trials, rigged elections, amendments all are connected. Every time they get away with no accountability they feel more immune. Every time the bureaucracy, media, judiciary instead of resisting falls in line they are emboldened.

The Iddat case, pushing the Economist's article, abducting and arresting Imran Khan’s nephews, and manhandling his sisters tonight all serve the same purpose: to humiliate. It is a fallacy to think this is Imran Khan’s or PTI’s humiliation alone. It is our collective humiliation. We are all being shown the price of dissent, the price of seeking justice, demanding democracy, and resisting oppression.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Remember when I told you that Grok was programmed 27 ways, and one of it was to amplify Islamophobia.

Here's a perfect example that it apologised for 👇🏾

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

This isn’t an app anymore, it’s a social experiment. What’s the experiment? Radicalisation. It’s flooded with foreign interference bots pushing extreme racism, violent misogyny, segregation, division and hatred. Few of the accounts are real. It’s a far right free for all.

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

. @elonmusk the owner of this platform has been just pushing and promoting one thing and one thing only : vicious anti Muslim and anti Arab rhetoric , retweeting any account that is spreading hate and fear against them even if what they are spreading is untrue . He did that before when he promoted Tommy Robinson and known Mossad agent in Britain and he is doing it now . Tweet after tweet , nothing else. You can be the richest man in the world but you are the richest slave in the world. What do they have in you dude? What is the point to have all the money and power and still be a little bitch.

[AMANI @AmaniUniverse]

This is so messed up- Gazans are posting their final messages because of how unimaginably horrific things are right now.

Meanwhile, @elonmusk is restricting their accounts:

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

I told Congress they're killing poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs, and they're paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. This was the authorities' response.

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

I can't say fuck Isreal enough times

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

A Gaza ambulance crew is bombarded by the Israeli occupation. No one is immune: doctors, first responders, journalists. They’ve made a mockery of every so called international norm.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇵🇰 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: IMRAN KHAN’S SONS BREAK THEIR SILENCE

Every once in a while, I conduct an interview that could shape the politics of a country.

This may be one of them.

Imran Khan, who I spoke with just weeks before his arrest, was one of the most popular leaders of our time.
Often called the “Trump of Pakistan,” he had an approval rating above 60%.

But when he turned against the country’s powerful military establishment, the cost was immediate.

He was shot.
Then jailed.
Then banned — not just from office, but from television, radio, and social media.

And yet, even from behind bars, even with his name erased, his party still won a majority in Pakistan’s latest elections.

It didn’t matter.

Today, he sits in a 7x8 cell designed for death row inmates.
No light. No lawyer. No access to doctors. No due process.

His sons, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, have spent their lives out of the spotlight, far from the chaos of Pakistani politics.

But for nearly 2 years, they’ve watched their father — wounded, silenced, and locked in solitary confinement — be forgotten by the world.

They haven’t seen him since he was shot.
Phone calls, when they come, arrive at random — sometimes at 4 a.m. — and last only 20 minutes before the line goes dead.

They stayed completely silent through all of it.
Not because they didn’t care — but because they were afraid speaking out would make things worse.

But now?

Now it’s been too long.
Now the silence feels like betrayal.
Now, they’re speaking — because this might be the only thing left they can do.

And they did not hold back.

To Pakistanis: do not lose hope.

To the international community: do not turn a blind eye.

Thank you @elonmusk and @lindayaX for X and your fight for free speech.

Disclaimers: This interview was conducted prior to the recent clashes between India and Pakistan.
I am not alleging the Pakistani military or Government was behind Imran’s assassination attempt.

Also note: Urdu voice over of the interview posted below as a comment.

01:26 — “He’s literally in the dark.”
No visits. No lawyers. No calls. No light.

02:16 — “He’s completely alone.”
No contact. No doctor. No way to know if he’s okay.

03:19 — “A death cell… for terrorists.”
7x8 feet. Blacked out. Designed to erase the human spirit.

04:09 — “First two days were hell.”
He survived 10 days in pitch darkness by forcing himself into a Zen-like state.

05:55 — “The line cuts at 20 minutes.”
Half the time: lessons. The rest: he asks about our lives.

06:50 — “We get a 4 a.m. message.”
If we miss it, it’s months before we hear from him again.

08:04 — “They’re trying to break him.”
No light. No doctors. No calls. But he refuses to fold.

09:16 — “He won’t take the deal.”
Not without his people. Not if it means betraying them.

13:22 — “We’ve run out of options.”
Legal routes are gone. Silence no longer helps. This is our last card.

15:19 — “They banned his name.”
On TV, radio, and online — we became the code for our own father.

17:01 — “We never spoke to Grenell.”
But we’re grateful. And we’ll speak to anyone who’ll listen.

18:27 — “It’s 100% political.”
False charges. Fake trials. A democracy on mute.

20:51 — “Yes, people have been taken.”
Supporters, journalists — vanished. Tortured. Broken.

22:06 — “He told us to stay private.”
But now? We have no choice.

24:03 — “We thought it’d be a few weeks.”
It’s been nearly two years.

26:26 — “He reads. He teaches. Then he listens.”
Each call is a lifeline.

28:05 — “They blurred him out.”
Even the 1992 World Cup photos — he was erased.

31:00 — “I’ve grown more in 2 years than 20.”
That’s what he tells us.

32:20 — “It’s getting desperate.”
New threats. Talk of a death sentence. No end in sight.

32:57 — “We asked him for permission.”
He said: Do it.

35:00 — “The last time we saw him, he’d been shot.”
Three bullets. Still standing. Still smiling.

36:45 — “We’re told not to come back.”
We might be used to break him further.

38:16 — “Respect the vote.”
PTI won — even without its symbol, even in silence.

39:38 — “Selling exotic fruit?”
That’s what they jailed him for.

40:53 — “Some family members were scared.”
But we have to try something.

42:07 — “He’s not done.”
Still learning. Still fighting. Still planning.

43:12 — “He’s 70. He was shot. And they deny him a doctor.”
This is not justice. This is torture.

[Salma🎀 @Salma4everPTI]

Tears 😭

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

So proud of my nephews. They have never courted publicity. The contrary. But they are speaking up now for their father @ImranKhanPTI - a hero for so many in Pakistan, an uncorruptible leader who is being tortured by a desperate, corrupt and greedy establishment

[Haji Shalwar @hajishalwar]

عمران خان کے بیٹوں نے انٹرویو میں بتایا ہے کہ انہیں اکثر رات دو بجے اڈیالہ جیل سے پیغام آتا ہے کہ وہ عمران خان سے بات کرنے کیلئے تیار رہیں۔ پھر وہ اپنی تمام مصروفیات اور میٹنگز ترک کرکے انتظار شروع کردیتے ہیں لیکن کئی گھنٹوں کے انتظار کے بعد انہیں بتایا جاتا ہے کہ ان کی بات اگلی دفعہ کروائی جائے گی۔
آپ کے خیال میں جو سپہ سالار عمران خان کی اس کے بیٹوں سے بات کروانے سے ڈرتا ہو، کیا وہ مضبوط اور پاپولر ہوسکت�� ہے؟
جو ادارہ ایک قیدی کے بنیادی حقوق کی فراہمی سے ڈرتا ہو، کیا وہ ادارہ خود کو طاقتور کہہ سکتا ہے؟
فوج کی طاقت نہ تو اس کی عددی قوت میں ہے اور نہ ہی اس کے ہتھیاروں میں۔ فوج کو طاقت عوام کی ذہ��ی غلامی اور پالشی کی عادت سے فراہم ہوتی ہے۔
عوام اگر اپنے حقوق کا تحفظ چاہتے ہیں تو کمہار کی بیوی کی طرح بار بار کھوتی کی دم پکڑ کر جی ایچ کیو کے دروازے پر مت پہنچ جایا کریں۔
فوج چاہے بھارتی ہو یا پاکستانی، اسے اپنا دشمن ہی سمجھیں، کیونکہ یہ آپ کے وسائل پر قبضہ کئے بیٹھی ہے!!!

[Dexie @dexiewrites]

“he’d hate me saying it, but he’s a man in his 70s; he might look younger but he’s a man in his 70s — the treatment being given to him is inhumane” - Imran Khan’s son, Kasim