🇵🇰 “THIS IS HOW JOURNALISTS ARE ERASED IN PAKISTAN”
Imran Riaz was abducted by Pakistan’s intelligence services after trying to leave the country, despite not being on any exit control list.
As he waited at the airport, armed men raided his home, terrorized his family, destroyed cameras, and looted personal belongings, including his children’s laptop.
He surrendered only after being promised his family would be left alone. That promise was broken.
After a brief jail stay, he was released at night and immediately taken by masked men, blindfolded, handcuffed, burned, and transported between secret locations.
He was tortured for months, moved between black sites, and confined to pitch-dark cells barely large enough to lie down, with no contact, no charges, and no record of his detention.
Full interview with @ImranRiazKhan below.
Disclaimer: Views expressed are my personal opinion as an Australian citizen permanently resident in Dubai, UAE, protected under Article 19 of the ICCPR (as ratified by Australia) and UAE constitutional provisions on freedom of expression. I am outside Pakistani jurisdiction. This post is published from the United Arab Emirates; any dispute falls exclusively under UAE courts.
🇵🇰 “IMRAN KHAN ISN’T ANTI-WEST - HE’S JUST TIRED OF PAKISTAN SUFFERING FOR OTHER NATIONS’ WARS”
When 40 members of the U.S. Congress sign a letter warning that Pakistan’s military-backed government is targeting even U.S. citizens who criticize the regime, you know the situation has crossed a line.
And for Imran Khan’s sister, Aleema Khan, none of this is surprising, because, as she says, Pakistan has been “a victim of its own geography” for decades.
In her view, Pakistanis have paid the price for great-power games: terrorism spillover from Afghanistan, economic collapse, brain drain, and now a military establishment trying to sell Imran Khan as “anti-West” while keeping him in jail.
Aleema argues that the crisis isn’t just political, it’s geopolitical, generational, and deliberate. And she’s blunt about who has really suffered: ordinary Pakistanis.
"We are a victim of our geopolitical location, and the people of Pakistan are the ones who suffer.
During those 20 years of the Afghan conflict, Pakistan lost 80,000 to 90,000 civilians in terrorist attacks.
Pakistan was growing once -we helped build South Korea, Singapore, the UAE, even Emirates Airlines- and look where we are now because of geopolitics.
3M educated young people have left Pakistan in the past three years; we are suffering from a massive brain drain."
@PTIofficial, @Aleema_KhanPK
🇵🇰 OPINION: PAKISTAN'S MILITARY JUST ADMITTED IT RUNS A DICTATORSHIP
The military spokesperson stood before cameras and declared Fmr Prime Minister Imran Khan can no longer see his family.
Not a judge, not an elected official, but a uniformed general announcing that Pakistan's most popular leader will remain in total isolation.
If you needed proof that Pakistan isn't a functioning democracy anymore, there it is: the military doesn't even pretend the civilian government makes decisions.
The interview with Khan's sisters reveals something darker than authoritarianism.
This is systematic psychological torture designed to break a man who won't bend.
Seven weeks without books, four weeks in complete isolation, six cameras ensuring no guard speaks to him, a cell so small he can barely walk.
Imran Khan told his sister Uzma:
"This mental torture from solitary confinement is worse than physical torture."
Then he said something that should terrify Pakistan's rulers:
"If anything happens to me, Asim Munir is responsible."
That's not paranoia; it's pattern recognition.
The military banned family visits immediately after Khan named the army chief directly.
The sisters describe a regime cracking down in real-time.
Government ministers threatening to "rip tongues apart and make shoes from them."
A 71-year-old sister dragged by her hair outside the jail. Sons and nephews imprisoned.
Properties seized. Passports blocked.
Yet they keep showing up, keep speaking out, keep delivering their brother’s message:
"I will never bow to tyranny. I would rather die in jail."
The most chilling part isn't what they're doing to Imran Khan; it's that they may be testing what they can get away with.
Four weeks of complete isolation while rumors spread that he may be dead, gauging public reaction, potentially calculating whether they can go further.
Disclaimer: Views expressed are my personal opinion as an Australian citizen permanently resident in Dubai, UAE, protected under Article 19 of the ICCPR (as ratified by Australia) and UAE constitutional provisions on freedom of expression. I am outside Pakistani jurisdiction. This post is published from the United Arab Emirates; any dispute falls exclusively under UAE courts.
“پاکستان میں اس وقت مارشل لاء نہیں “عاصم لاء” نافذ ہے۔ ملک میں عاصم منیر کا قانون چل رہا ہے اور آئی ایس آئی اسے تحفظ دے رہی ہے۔ جو چیز عاصم منیر کو طاقت دیتی ہے وہ اس ملک کا قانون بن جاتا ہے۔ عاصم منیر اپنی طاقت کے لیے ملک کی ہر چیز کی قربانی دے گا۔ یہ آرمی چیف فوج کی بدنامی کروا رہا ہے، جیسا کہ یحییٰ خان نے کیا تھا۔”
- عمران خان
#عوام_ہے_ریاست
“The circumstances in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa necessitated a change in the Chief Minister, a step fully in line with the constitutional process followed in other provinces as well. This process must be allowed to proceed without interference, ensuring its timely completion. Any attempt to interfere in this process will be met with a vigorous public protest.
Sohail Afridi was chosen because of his long-standing affiliation, dating back to his student days with ISF, and the ideology of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. This decision also reinforces the narrative of involving grassroots workers in decision-making instead of relying solely on electables.
Attempts by certain quarters to link the change in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister to my family are completely unfounded. The decision is purely political and no member of my family in any way influenced it. No family member has any connection to my political decisions.
Ali Amin is among my old and loyal associates, but he is embroiled in disputes. These disputes from Asim Munir’s policy of confronting terrorism through empty displays of force rather than a comprehensive political strategy. The year 2025 marks the worst period in Pakistan’s history in terms of terrorist incidents, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa can no longer withstand the crisis. I hope the new Chief Minister and his team will work with public representatives to adopt a comprehensive policy aimed at eliminating terrorism and establishing lasting peace.
For the past two decades I have consistently outlined a clear strategy to combat terrorism. Because of that strategy, terrorism was largely brought under control during Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s three-and-a-half-year government. At that time, PTI even negotiated with the then anti-Pakistan and India-aligned Ashraf Ghani government, and issues involving tribal communities and Afghan refugees were resolved through understanding.
In 2021, the military leadership at the time proposed a plan for the resettlement of militants who had laid down their arms. However, our elected representatives from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal areas opposed it, and therefore it was never implemented during our tenure. Yet, contrary to these facts, the PTI government is being falsely accused of having allowed terrorists to be settled in the country and thereby causing the present wave of terrorism. If these accusations hold any truth, the nation deserves to know precisely which terrorists were resettled, and the details of when, where, and how.
At times, it is alleged that the Afghan government is responsible for terrorism in Pakistan because militants based in Afghanistan carry out operations here; at other times it is claimed that decades-long settlement of Afghan migrants in Pakistan is responsible. Both claims are unfounded, for even after the disgraceful expulsion of millions of Afghan refugees, terrorism has only intensified. Such contradictions leave no doubt about the ill intentions behind the Asim Munir-imposed system and its hostility toward the people.
My position on confronting terrorism has always been unequivocal. History has proven time and again that when force replaces political foresight and strategy, failure is the only outcome. Collateral damage resulting from military operations often forces the public, in revenge, to take up arms, perpetuating a cycle that grows progressively worse.
Politically motivated reprisals have produced a stream of baseless cases against me, repeatedly refiled. Cases large and small, including Tosha Khana, Al-Qadir, cipher, iddat, and again Tosha Khana, have been brought against me and my wife, Bushra Bibi, solely to coerce me into abandoning my commitment to true freedom. I want to send my nation this message once more: no matter what they do, I will not bow before them, nor will I allow my nation to bow.”
Message from former Prime Minister Imran Khan from prison - October 9th, 2025
“2021 میں اس وقت کی فوجی قیادت نے ہتھیار پھینکنے والے دہشتگردوں کو واپس بسانے کا منصوبہ پیش کیا تھا، مگر اس منصوبے کو خیبرپختونخوا اور قبائلی علاقوں کے ہمارے منتخب نمائندوں نے مسترد کر دیا تھا- اس منصوبے پر ہمارے دور میں عمل نہیں ہوا۔
لیکن اب حقائق کے برعکس تحریک انصاف کی حکومت پر یہ سراسر جھوٹا الزام لگایا جا رہا ہے کہ ملک میں دہشتگردی اس دور میں بسائے گئے دہشتگردوں کی وجہ سے پیدا ہوئی ہے۔ قوم کو بتایا جائے کہ کون سے دہشتگرد کب، کہاں اور کیسے بسائے گئے؟”
ناحق قید سابق وزیراعظم پاکستان عمران خان کا جی�� سے پیغام
(9 اکتوبر، 2025)
𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑:
Let us revisit the Constitution of Pakistan
Let us remind that the armed forces are a tool of the state, not the state itself
Let us reiterate that the real power lies with the people
𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞
#FascismUnderAsimLaw