What’s happening to Imran Khan is outrageous. I hope @elonmusk can do something to stop this obvious suppression of support for him, and that the Pakistan authorities afford Imran his basic human rights.
.@elonmusk
Elon, you may recall we have met before.
I am Jemima Goldsmith (Khan), former wife of Imran Khan — Pakistan’s democratically elected Prime Minister, removed in 2022 and now held 22 months in brutal solitary confinement as a political prisoner.
Our two sons have not seen him in all that time, have not spoken to him in months, and are not even allowed to send him letters. His name is banned from every Pakistani TV and radio station. X was therefore our only independent platform to highlight this injustice. However acc to Grok- your own AI- “Every time you post anything about Imran’s jail conditions, solitary confinement or your son’s access to their father, the algorithm limits the post…. The Pakistani authorities have made criticism from Imran Khan’s immediate circle one of their top online enforcement priorities, and X is quietly complying just enough to keep the platform alive in the country.”
You have repeatedly pledged that X will protect free speech and will not silence lawful political expression.
Yet Grok has examined my X analytics (3.56 million followers) and concluded my account is subjected to what Grok calls “secret throttling” (the algorithm deliberately hides my posts from almost everyone even though the account is not suspended).
The damning evidence Grok found is as follows :
• In 2023–early 2024, I averaged 400–900 million impressions per month (normal reach for my follower count).
• But in the entire 2025, impressions dropped to only 28.6 million total — a 97% crash to <3% of expected reach.
• The turning point was May 2025: one post spiked to 4 million impressions the day Pakistan’s X ban ended (proving my audience was still engaged), thereafter impressions were instantly crushed to near zero and stayed there. These numbers & assessments are all verbatim from Grok.
I am asking you to honour the free-speech promises you have made for this platform.
Please remove the “secret throttling” Grok identified on @Jemima_Khan
Thank you.
🇵🇰 OPINION: THE PAKISTANI MILITARY JUST DECLARED WAR ON DISSENT, AND IMRAN KHAN IS GROUND ZERO
Something dangerous just happened in Pakistan, and the world should not look away.
The country’s military DGISPR, through its official spokesperson, held one of the most aggressive, unprecedented press conferences in modern Pakistani history. Without naming him directly, the entire briefing was aimed at one man, jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The military, now led by General Asim Munir and the powerful establishment behind him, accused Imran, the former leader and the most popular political figure in the country, of inciting anti-state sentiment, working against national security, and even encouraging foreign media and intelligence agencies to undermine the army. They called him mentally unstable, a national security threat, and implied he was a tool of foreign powers. His supporters were labeled conspirators, traitors, and agents of chaos.
Let that sink in.
A man who won the votes of tens of millions is allegedly being publicly criminalized for criticizing Asim Munir, the current army chief, and Qamar Bajwa, the former army chief. Not for treason, not for terrorism, but for challenging the narrative.
This isn't just a clash of personalities, this is the full force of a military institution silencing a democratic movement.
And it’s getting worse.
The military has now banned Imran Khan’s own sister, a prominent doctor, from visiting him in jail simply because she reportedly carried a message from her brother criticizing the army chief.
A family member is being denied access for passing on words. Not weapons. Not plans. Words.
They’ve also openly threatened to cut off all visits, even from lawyers, if any political message is conveyed.
This is not justice, this is not due process, this is authoritarian muscle cloaked in national security rhetoric.
And the truth is, none of this is new.
Since 1947, Pakistan’s military has repeatedly inserted itself into civilian politics, removing elected leaders, shaping foreign policy, and deciding the limits of political debate. Every time a civilian leader rises with genuine public backing, the generals move to break them.
For people unfamiliar with Pakistan’s deep state politics, Imran Khan is not some fringe figure. He’s a former cricket legend turned anti-corruption reformer who challenged the old political order, and allegedly, for that, the military has targeted him relentlessly. Arrests, assassination attempts, media blackouts, now total erasure.
The message is clear, either you support the military or you are the enemy.
This moment matters far beyond Pakistan.
When a nuclear-armed country silences its most popular civilian leader, brands political speech as sedition, and begins dismantling the boundary between security and governance, the entire region becomes more unstable.
It also reveals the cracks in the global democratic order.
As Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, once warned, the armed forces are the servants of the people. Not the masters.
Imran Khan’s battle is no longer just a domestic one, it’s a test of whether a political movement powered by the people can survive the wrath of an entrenched military elite.
Today it’s banning lawyers, tomorrow, it may be banning elections.
It’s heartbreaking to watch yet another democracy crumble from within.
ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر پختونوں سے معافی مانگو۔ یہ پورے خیبرپختونخواہ کی توہین ہے۔ آپ نے آج یہ زبان استعمال کر کے یہ ثابت کردیا کہ جو سہیل آفریدی نے کہا تھا وہ ٹھیک کہا تھا۔ تم پختونوں کے وزیر اعلی کے بارے میں یہ کہہ رہے ہو تو عام پختون کے ساتھ کیا کیا سلوک ہوا ہوگا؟
”عاصم منیر ایک ذہنی مریض ہے جس کی اخلاقی پستی کی وجہ سے پاکستان میں آئین اور قانون مکمل طور پر ختم ہو چکے ہیں اور کسی بھی پاکستانی کے بنیادی انسانی حقوق اب محفوظ نہیں۔
مجھے اور میری اہلیہ کو عاصم منیر کے حکم پر جھوٹے مقدمات میں جیل میں رکھا گیا ہے اور شدید ترین ذہنی ٹارچر کیا جا رہا ہے۔ مجھے مکمل طور پر ایک سیل میں بند کر کے قید تنہائی میں ڈالا ہوا ہے۔ چار ہفتے تک میری کسی ایک انسان سے بھی ملاقات نہیں ہوئی۔ اور بیرونی دنیا سے بالکل بےخبر رکھا گیا، جیل مینؤل کے مطابق دی جانے والی ہماری بنیادی ضروریات بھی ختم کر دی گئی ہیں۔
ہائی کورٹ کے احکامات کے باوجود پہلے میری سیاسی ساتھیوں سے ملاقات پرپابندی لگائی گئی اور اب وکلأ اور اہل خانہ سے ملاقات بھی بند کر دی گئی ہے۔ انسانی حقوق کا کوئی بھی چارٹر اٹھا کر دیکھیں ذہنی تشدد بھی "ٹارچر" ہی کہلاتا ہے اور جسمانی تشدد سے بھی ذیادہ سنگین عمل سمجھا جاتا ہے۔
میری ہمشیرہ نورین نیازی کو سڑک پر گھسیٹا گیا، صرف اس لیے کہ وہ مجھ سے ملاقات کا جائز حق مانگ رہی تھیں، یہ صرف عاصم منیر جیسا شخص ہی کر سکتا ہے۔ اس نے ڈاکٹر یاسمین راشد جیسی بزرگ کینسر سرائیوور کو سیاسی انتقام کی غرض سے جیل میں ڈالا ہوا ہے۔ میری اہلیہ بشریٰ بیگم کو صرف مجھ پر دباؤ ڈالنے کے لیے قید کیا ہوا ہے۔ ان کے بچوں سے بھی انکی ملاقات نہیں کرنے دی جا رہی۔ ان کو تمام سہولیات سے محروم رکھا گیا ہے، ان سب مثالوں سے اس شخص کی ذہنی سطح کا اندازہ ہوتا ہے۔
قید تنہائی کاٹنا انتہائی تکلیف دہ عمل ہے لیکن میں یہ صرف اپنی قوم کی خاطر برداشت کر رہا ہوں۔ جب تک قوم خود غلامی کی زنجیریں نہیں توڑتی، پاکستان پر مسلط مافیاز ایسے ہی اس کا استحصال کرتے رہیں گے۔ ایکسٹینشن مافیا، لینڈ مافیا، چینی مافیا، مینڈیٹ چور مافیا ہر ایک اس قوم کو تب تک غلام بنا کر رکھے گا جب تک کہ یہ قوم خود اٹھ کھڑی نہیں ہوتی۔ آپ آج ان کے غلام ہیں، آپ کی نسلیں ان کی نسلوں کی غلام ہوں گی اگر اس چکر کو توڑنا ہے تو قوم کو خود غلامی کی زنجیریں توڑ کر “حقیقی آزادی” کے لیے کھڑا ہونا ہے۔
وکٹ کے دونوں جانب کھیلنے والوں کی میری پارٹی میں کوئی جگہ نہیں ہے۔ ایسے لوگ تحریک انصاف کے "میر صادق" اور "میر جعفر" ہیں۔ این ڈی یو ورک شاپ میں تحریک انصاف کے لوگوں کی شرکت شرمناک ہے۔ ایک جانب ہم لوگ ہر قسم کی سختیاں برداشت کر رہے ہیں تو دوسری جانب جب ہمارے ہی لوگ ہم پر ظلم ڈھانے والوں سے سماجی تعلقات بڑھانے کی کوشش کرتے ہیں تو مجھے انتہائی تکلیف ہوتی ہے۔
میں ہمیشہ کہتا آیا ہوں کہ اپنے ہی لوگوں پر ڈرون اٹیکس اور ملٹری آپریشنز سے دہشتگردی مزید بڑھتی ہے- عاصم منیر کی پالیسیاں اس ملک کے لیے تباہ کن ہیں۔ اس ہی کی پالیسی کی بدولت آج ملک میں دہشتگردی کا ناسور بے قابو ہے جس پر مجھے انتہائی دکھ ہے۔ اس کو اپنے ملک کے مفادات کی رتی برابر بھی پرواہ نہیں ہے۔ یہ جو کچھ کر رہا ہے، محض مغربی دنیا کی خوشنودی کے لیے کر رہا ہے۔ افغانستان کے ساتھ آگ کو جان بوجھ کر بھڑکایا، اس کا مقصد ہے کہ اسے “انٹرنیشنلی مجاہد” سمجھا جائے- اس نے پہلے افغانوں کو دھمکایا، پھر مہاجرین کو ملک سے دھکے دے کر باہر نکالا، ان پر ڈرون حملے کیے جس کے اثرات پاکستان میں دہشت گردی بڑھنے کی صورت میں آئے۔ اس شخص نے اپنے ذاتی مفاد کے لیے ملک کو دہشتگردی کی بھینٹ چڑھا دیا ہے۔
سہیل آفریدی قابل تعریف ہے کیونکہ جبر کے اس ماحول میں وہ مفاہمت کے بجائے مزاحمت کو ترجیح دے رہا ہے۔ سہیل آفریدی کو پیغام دیتا ہوں کہ وہ فرنٹ فٹ پر آ کر کھیلتا رہے۔ اس ملک میں کوئی قانون اور آئین نہیں ہے۔ قانون صرف تحریک انصاف کے لیے حرکت میں آتا ہے ورنہ ہر کوئی اس سے مبرا ہے۔ سہیل آفریدی جو بھی کر رہا ہے اسے جاری رکھے میں اس کی مکمل حمایت کرتا ہوں۔
گورنر راج کی دھمکیاں لگانے والے کل کی بجائے آج لگا لیں اور پھر دیکھیں ان کے ساتھ ہوتا کیا ہے!!
محمود خان اچکزئی اور علامہ راجہ ناصر عباس میرے لیے انتہائی قابل احترام ہیں۔ وہ جمہوریت پسند اور اصول پرست لوگ ہیں۔ مجھے حیرت ہے کہ اب تک ان کا نوٹیفکیشن جاری نہیں ہوا۔ میں تحریک انصاف کی پارلیمانی جماعت کو ہدایت کرتا ہوں کہ سپیکر اور چئیرمین سینیٹ کے سامنے اس معاملے پر احتجاج کریں تاکہ ان کا اپوزیشن لیڈر کا نوٹیفکیشن جاری کیا جائے۔ اس کے علاوہ موجودہ نظام مخالف کسی بھی قسم کی تحریک کے لیے جو بھی کال تحریک تحفظ آئین پاکستان کی جانب سے دی جائے تمام تحریک انصاف اس پر عمل کرے“
اڈیالہ جیل میں نا حق قید سابق وزیراعظم پاکستان عمران خان کی ایک ماہ قید تنہائی کے بعد اپنی بہن سے ہونے والی ملاقات میں گفتگو (2 دسمبر، 2025)
Part 1 of 2
“Asim Munir is a mentally unstable person whose moral degradation has led to the complete collapse of the Constitution and the rule of law in Pakistan, leaving the fundamental human rights of every Pakistani unprotected.
My wife and I have been imprisoned on fabricated charges at his command, and we are being subjected to severe psychological torment. I have been completely isolated in a cell, placed in solitary confinement. For four weeks I was not permitted to see a single human being, and I was kept entirely cut off from the outside world. Even the basic necessities guaranteed under the jail manual have been denied to us.
Despite the orders of the High Court, first my meetings with my political colleagues were prohibited, and now even my meetings with my lawyers and family have been stopped. Any human rights charter will show that psychological torture is classified as 'torture', and it is regarded as even more severe than physical abuse.
My sister Noreen Niazi was dragged on the road simply because she demanded her rightful meeting with me. Only a man like Asim Munir could sanction such conduct. He has imprisoned Dr. Yasmin Rashid, an elderly cancer survivor, purely out of political vengeance. My wife, Bushra Begum, has been imprisoned only to exert pressure on me. Even her children are not allowed to meet her, and she has been deprived of all facilities. These examples reveal the character and mental disposition of this man.
Enduring solitary confinement is extremely painful, but I am bearing it only for the sake of my nation. Until the nation itself breaks the chains of slavery, the mafias imposed on Pakistan will continue to exploit it. The extension mafia, land mafia, sugar mafia, and mandate-thief mafia will keep this nation enslaved until the people themselves rise. Today you are their slaves; your future generations will be slaves to their generations. If you want to break this cycle, the nation must break the chains of enslavement itself and stand up for Haqeeqi Azadi (genuine freedom).
There is no place in my party for those who play on both sides of the wicket. Such people are the ‘Mir Sadiq’ and ‘Mir Jafar’ of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The participation of PTI individuals in the NDU workshop is shameful. On one hand, we are enduring all kinds of hardships, and on the other hand, when our own people socialise with those who oppress us, it causes me deep pain.
I have always stated that drone attacks and military operations on our own people only fuels terrorism. Asim Munir’s policies are disastrous for this country. It is because of his policies that the scourge of terrorism has spiraled out of control, which deeply grieves me. He has no regard for the interests of his own nation. Whatever he is doing is merely to please the Western world. He deliberately ignited tensions with Afghanistan seeking to portray himself internationally as a ‘mujahid’ (warrior). He first threatened Afghans, then expelled refugees by force, and conducted drone strikes on them; the consequences of which came in the form of rising terrorism inside Pakistan. This man has sacrificed the country to terrorism for his own personal interests.
Sohail Afridi is commendable because he chose resistance over reconciliation during repressive times. My message to Sohail Afridi is to continue playing on the front foot. There is no law or constitution in this country. The law is invoked only against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf; everyone else remains exempt. Whatever Sohail Afridi is doing, he should continue. He has my full support.
As for those issuing threats of Governor’s Rule: impose it right away instead of waiting, and then see consequences for themselves!
Conversation with his sister by the unjustly imprisoned former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, after one month of solitary confinement in Adiala Jail (December 2, 2025) 1/2
My father has been under arrest for 845 days. For the past six weeks, he has been kept in solitary confinement in a death cell with zero transparency. His sisters have been denied every visit, even with clear court orders allowing access. There have been no phone calls, no meetings and no proof of life. Me and my brother have had no contact with our father.
This absolute blackout is not a security protocol. It is a deliberate attempt to hide his condition and prevent our family from knowing whether he is safe.
Let it be clear: the Pakistani government and its handlers will be held fully accountable legally, morally and internationally for my father’s safety and for every consequence of this inhumane isolation.
I call on the international community, global human rights organisations and every democratic voice to intervene urgently. Demand proof of life, enforce court ordered access, end this inhumane isolation and call for the release of Pakistan’s most popular political leader who is being held solely for political reasons.