It has now been around 1,100 days since my father, Imran Khan, was imprisoned, and my brother and I haven’t heard his voice since March. For months, we’ve been denied contact with him. We remain in the dark about his access to healthcare as his eyesight continues to deteriorate. He urgently needs medical attention, and with no family or legal access, we don’t even get any second hand information or reassurance.
I’ve found myself especially missing him recently. I want to speak to him about mundane things like my cricket, books I’ve been reading and what new movies are good. I understand the people of Pakistan want their chosen leader free, but I miss my father more than ever.
But this is not just about a father. It is about Pakistan, and its future. A rigged, authoritarian regime continues to crush political opposition, undermine democratic institutions, and deny millions of Pakistanis their right to freely choose their leaders, whilst terrorising those who speak their beliefs.
I once again plea to the international community to not look away. Silence in the face of injustice only enables it.
La regularización de inmigrantes aprobada hoy es una gran noticia.
Para que tengan los mismos derechos y obligaciones, pero sobre todo para que vivan sin miedo.
Pese a que corren tiempos difíciles en el mundo, no nos olvidemos nunca de ser humanos.
Qué orgullo ser español 🇪🇸
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
My sons Sulaiman & @kasim_khan_1999 applied for visas in January (again… ) to allow them to visit their father @ImranKhanPTI in Pakistan. The Pakistan consulate states that online visa processing normally takes 7–10 working days. It has now been 60 days. This despite the public promise that they could safely travel there to see their father after 4 years, made by both Defence Minister @khawajaMAsif to @mehdirhasan & PM spokesperson @mosharrafzaidi to @SkyYaldaHakim
Meanwhile, they are not allowed to speak to him on the phone, nor send him a letter. They haven’t seen him since 2022 after he was shot in an assassination attempt.
This is an appeal directly to Pakisan’s PM @CMShehbaz to please allow Imran Khan’s two sons to see their father asap, particularly since, by all accounts, his health is in decline.
Real allies owe each other mutual support in times of struggle, but not blind obedience down a reckless path.
War is not the answer.
https://t.co/i84YV404Nv
La posición del Gobierno de España se resume en cuatro palabras: NO a la guerra.
Os dejo íntegra mi intervención valorando los últimos acontecimientos internacionales. 👇
The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR.
https://t.co/KpRjBfwY4B
تیراہ میں ایک دفعہ پھر سیکورٹی فورسز کی فائرنگ سے معصوم لوگوں کو نشانہ بنایا گیا۔ جس کی میں شدید الفاظ میں مذمت کرتا ہوں۔ ۴ معصوم شہری شہید اور ۵ زخمی ہوئے۔ یہ کولیٹرل ڈیمیج وہاں پر معمور سیکورٹی اہلکاروں کی نا اہلی ہے۔ صوبائی حکومت شہداء اور زخمیوں کی فیملی کے ساتھ کھڑی ہے اور اس غم کے وقت اُن کو اکیلا نہیں چھوڑیں گے۔
A personal plea to @elonmusk
My two sons have not been allowed to see or speak to their father Imran Khan who has been held unlawfully (acc to the UN) for 22 months of solitary confinement.
X is the only place left where we can still tell the world he is a political prisoner without basic human rights.
Yet every time I post about him, the reach inside Pakistan (and often globally) is throttled to almost zero.
You promised free speech, not “speech but no one hears it”.
Please fix the visibility filtering on my account so we can get the message out! @MarioNawfal
“دیکھیں ISPR صاحب، میری ذرا غور سے بات سن لیں، آپ جب پیدا بھی نہیں ہوئے تھے نہ تب میں اپنے ملک کو دنیا میں represent کرتا تھا، میں نے اپنے ملک کا دنیا کے اندر سر اوپر کیا، عزت دلوائی اپنے ملک کو”
- عمران خان
Strongly condemn the shameful treatment of my aunts outside Adiala Jail last night. The Pakistani government and its handlers have crossed every moral and legal line.
Attacking unarmed women, dragging them on the road and unleashing police force in darkness is the behaviour of a regime terrified of accountability. This fascist approach will not break our family and it will not silence the nation standing for justice.