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[Badar Khushnood (بدر خوشنود) @badar76]

If u use #GoogleMaps in #Pakistan 🇵🇰 in apps like @CareemPAK, @foodpanda_pk, @ZameenProperty, plz *THANK* 🙏 these & other folks who contributed to drawing every street, road, highway, motorway, waterway, etc. More @ Google Maps official blog @ https://t.co/XWOkudPXPl

[Javed Hassan @javedhassan]

I don’t want to believe this.
I hoped it was fake news.

But Dawn itself confirms it: ECC just approved Rs 1.094 billion for a luxury executive jet (Lineage L-1000) for the Pakistan Army.

Meanwhile, according to the WB Oct 26 report: 48% of Pakistanis — roughly 120 million people — lived below the $4.20/day poverty line in 2024.

What’s missing here?
Is it unpatriotic to notice the gap?

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

Horrifying footage appears to show police firing directly at PTI protesters, leaving civilians wounded. Why? Demanding the release of their elected political leader and standing by democracy.

Those responsible for ordering and carrying out this brutality must be held accountable. Relentless bloodshed and fearmongering from Asim Munir’s petrified regime. Scared people often lash out with the most cruel brutality, and that’s what we’re seeing here. A man terrified to lose power, and terrified of his own people’s will.

The world must watch and take action. We absolutely must take a united stand against tyranny and evil.

[Javed Hashmi @JavedHashmiJH]

سہیل آفریدی
Arrested but not defeated
گورنر مالک مشرقی پاکستان میں بھی راج کرتا تھا، مگر آخر اُسے اپنی جوتی چھوڑ کر وہاں سے بھاگنا پڑا۔ پھر بھاگتا ہوا پکڑا گیا اور جیل میں اُسے موت آ گئی۔ اُس کے پیچھے جو فوج تھی، اُسے کیسے سرنڈر کرنا پڑا، وہ بھی آپ کے سامنے ہے۔

ملک کے حالات تو خراب ہیں، مگر اُس سے بھی زیادہ عاصم منیر کے حالات خراب ہیں۔ پاکستان کے ہر شہر کے ہر جنکشن پر پولیس تعینات ہے۔ اتنا ڈرا اور خوف زدہ کسی فاشسٹ ڈکٹیٹر کو نہیں دیکھا۔

[Javed Hashmi @JavedHashmiJH]

عمران خان، تمہیں قدرت نے 25 کروڑ لوگوں کو آزاد کرانے کی ذمہ داری سونپی ہے، اور تم اسے جوانمردی اور دلیری سے نبھا رہے ہو۔

تم جانتے ہو، اکیلے تم نے آزاد نہیں ہونا۔ تمہارے ساتھ 25 کروڑ پاکستانیوں نے آزاد ہونا ہے۔ اللہ تمہیں کامیاب کرے۔

Happiest Birthday Imran Khan

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

"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

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

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

[Aleema @ikhan_17]

سپریم کورٹ کے فیصلوں کی دھجیاں اڑانے اور توہینِ عدالت کرنے والوں پر آرٹیکل 6 کے تحت آئین شکنی کا مقدمہ قائم ہونا چاہیے۔"

[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.

[The Bank of Punjab @thebankofpunjab]

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[Aleema @ikhan_17]

اس نے کہا تھا میں اکیلا بھی رہ گیا تو ان کا مقابلہ کروں گا
اور اس نے مقابلہ کر کے دکھایا۔۔

[Tayyaba Rajah🇵🇰 @tayyabarajah]

ہمارا عرُوج یہ تھا کہ خلیفہ وقت سے بھی سوال ہوتا تھا کہ اضافی چادر کہاں سے آئی؟
اور زوال یہ ہے کہ سوال اٹھاؤ گے تو اٹھا لئیے جاؤ گے۔

[Javed Hashmi @JavedHashmiJH]

جرنیلوں تم آؤ گے
اپنی گودڑی اٹھاؤ گے اور چلے جاؤ گے۔ تمہاری نظر اسلام آباد کے ایک ایک سیکٹر پر ہے، تم مونال پر قبضہ چاہتے ہو، تم پورے پاکستان پر قابض ہو۔ مگر یاد رکھو، اقتدار ہمیشہ کے لیے کسی کے پاس نہیں رہتا۔ اس ملک کا اصل مالک عوام ہے، نہ کہ بندوق کے زور پر فیصلے کرنے والے جرنیل۔

تمہاری حکومت اتنی کمزور ہے کہ تم مولانا فضل الرحمٰن کو گرفتار نہیں کر سکتے، اور نہ اکیلے جاوید ہاشمی کو خاموش کرا سکتے ہو۔ مولانا کے لاکھوں پیروکار ہیں، مگر اصل طاقت عوام کی ہے۔

آج میں آپ کو دو کہانیاں سناتا ہوں، جو ہمارے جرنیلوں اور آج کے ملکی حالات کی عکاسی کرتی ہیں۔

پہلی کہانی

آپ کو محمد شاہ رنگیلا اور سائرہ تو یاد ہوگی

ایک وقت تھا جب محمد شاہ رنگیلا دہلی پر حکومت کرتا تھا۔ اسے شراب و شباب سے فرصت نہ تھی۔ نادر شاہ نے دہلی پر حملہ کیا، قتلِ عام کیا، شہر اجاڑ دیا۔ جب محمد شاہ کو بتایا جاتا ک�� نادر شاہ دہلی میں داخل ہو چکا ہے تو وہ بے پروائی سے کہتا: “کوئی ایک آدھا شہر لے جائے گا تو کیا ہو جائے گا؟�� اور پھر اپنی طوائف سائرہ کی طرف اشارہ کر کے کہتا: “سائراں دے، جھوٹا!” مطلب سائرہ جھولاجھلاتی رہو!

آخرکار نادر شاہ اس تک پہنچ گیا، مگر کہا: “میں تمہیں اپنا بھائی بناتا ہوں، حکومت نہیں لوں گا۔” محمد شاہ کوہِ نور اپنی پگڑی میں چھپا چکا تھا۔ نادر شاہ نے کہا: “ہمارا دستور ہے کہ بھائی بنتے وقت پگڑی بدلی جاتی ہے۔” پگڑی بدلی گئی، اور کوہِ نور بھی چلا گیا۔

دوسری کہانی

ایک ملک میں نیا بادشاہ بنانا تھا۔ لوگوں نے فیصلہ کیا کہ صبح جو پہلا آدمی سامنے آئے گا، اسے بادشاہ بنا دیں گے۔ ایک شخص گودڑی اٹھائے آ رہا تھا، اسے بادشاہ بنا دیا گیا۔

وہ ہر مسئلے کا ایک ہی جواب دیتا: “پکاؤ حلوہ!”

ملک پر حملہ ہوا، تب بھی اس نے کہا: “پکاؤ حلوہ!” وہ کہتا تھا: “تم نہیں جانتے میری گودڑی میں کیا ہے۔” جب دشمن اس تک پہنچ گیا تو اس نے کہا: “میں تو حلوہ کھانے آیا تھا، لوگوں نے مجھے بادشاہ بنا دیا۔” اس نے حلوہ کھایا، اپنی گودڑی اٹھائی اور چلتا بنا۔

جب مشرقی پاکستان میں جنگ چھڑی تو یحییٰ خا�� کا طرزِ عمل بھی کچھ ایسا ہی تھا۔

آج بھی ہمارے جرنیل اسی ذہنیت کے اسیر دکھائی دیتے ہیں۔ اقتدار آتا ہے، وسائل پر قبضہ ہوتا ہے، حلوہ تقسیم ہوتا ہے، اور پھر گودڑی اٹھا کر رخصت ہو جاتے ہیں۔ نقصان مگر پاکستان کا ہوتا ہے، قیمت عوام ادا کرتے ہیں، اور تاریخ نئے ناموں کے ساتھ پرانی غلطیاں دہراتی رہتی ہے۔ اپنا حلوہ کھاؤ گے اور بھاگ جاؤگے!

[Musadaq Zulqarnain @MusadaqZ]

Twice, I was graciously offered a gratis blue passport by the Govt—first as one of the country's highest taxpayers, and again this year as Chairman of one of its largest exporters. I respectfully declined both times. By the grace of Almighty Allah, my green Pakistani passport has always been a matter of pride and has served me well across the world

[Husnain Rafique @Husnainrafique_]

آپ مٹانے والے کب سے بن گئے ؟
یہ لیں تصویر

[Aleema @ikhan_17]

��اسم خان 🚨🚨

​"میرے والد عمران خان کو اسیر ہوئے تقریباً ایک ہزار دن ہو چکے ہیں۔ وہ ایک ایسے متعصب نظام کا نشانہ بنے ہیں جو سیاسی اختلافِ رائے کو جمہوریت کا حسن سمجھنے کے بجائے ایک ایسا سنگین جرم گردانتا ہے جسے طاقت کے زور پر دبا دیا جائے۔"

[Waqas @worqas]

You are glazing the guy who came into power due to fraudulent elections, has arrested and jailed thousands of innocent people, and killed people on the streets. Yet EU gives him favorable GSP+ status due to his stellar "human rights record", you are a fraud and I hope you lose whatever youre after.

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

The Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi, along with the entire provincial cabinet, parliamentary leadership, members of National Assembly and members of the Punjab assembly was heading toward Adiala Jail to stand in solidarity with their leader, Imran Khan.

For the past seven months, Imran Khan has been unlawfully subjected to solitary confinement in prison, isolated from his family, denied basic rights, and deliberately cut off from the people of Pakistan. For the last eight months, he has also been denied proper medical treatment despite repeated concerns regarding his health. These actions are not only inhumane, but a blatant violation of constitutional, legal, and fundamental human rights.

After exhausting every democratic and legal avenue, we are left with no choice but to exercise our constitutional right to peaceful assembly in order to raise our voice against this illegitimate, stolen-mandate government and its continued political victimization of Pakistan’s most popular leader.

Our gathering point was nearly one kilometer away from Adiala Jail. Yet despite this peaceful and lawful intention, the police moved to block Imran Khan’s family, the elected representatives of the people, the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet, and the sitting Chief Minister immediately after they exited the motorway en route to Adiala through Rawalpindi. The blocking of an elected Chief Minister and his cabinet is not just an attack on one political party, it is an attack on democracy itself, an insult to the mandate of millions of Pakistanis.

[Husnain Rafique @Husnainrafique_]

سچ سامنے آنے کے بعد ناحق دس سال کی سزا دینے والے کیا اب معافی مانگیں گے؟

[Shahzad Iqbal @ShahzadIqbalGEO]

Few journalists command the respect @Matiullahjan919 does. His voice on human rights and press freedom has been consistent and courageous.
Shutting down his program, starting a smear campaign against him and initiating inquiry for inviting foreign journalists to press club and speaking for rights of journalists, Iman and Hadi is inappropriate. His demand for an independent inquiry committee based on senior journalists is fair. This committee shud also look into the campaign against Matiullah Jan.

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

Our family has appealed to all party office holders, senior leadership, MNAs, MPAs, and Senators to come to Adiala Jail this Tuesday to build pressure on the government to:

1. Allow immediate access for Imran Khan’s lawyers and family.
2. Transfer Imran Khan to Shifa International Hospital for proper medical examination and treatment, in the presence of specialists, his personal doctor, and family.
3. Ensure Chief Justice Dogar takes up the bail applications of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi so they can be released from this illegal imprisonment without delay.

Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi are being held in solitary confinement, one of the harshest forms of treatment in violation of Pakistani law and international human rights standards.