Imran Khan's sisters arrested and detained and security forces seizing ministers in broad daylight.
The arrests come a week before a planned protest march by Khan’s PTI party.
Pakistan's Interior Minister said the government would do everything it could to stop the march.
Our country is in international news for either security incidents or for the illegal abductions by law enforcement agencies. Whoever is in Asim Munir’s close circles shall realize the harm they are all bringing to the country and work on stopping the fascism.
Pakistan deserves better headlines!
#ستمبر27_فیصلہ_کن_مارچ
UPDATE: The crackdown appears to be widening. After Aleema Khan’s 30-day detention, family members say homes linked to Imran Khan’s sisters have been raided — and that Aleema’s two sons and her 20-year-old niece Sakina have also been detained.
My mother, Aleema Khan @Aleema_KhanPK, was abducted a few hours ago. We still have no information about where she is being held. Leaving her family in the dark about her whereabouts is indefensible.
If cowardice had a face, this politico-military government would be it.
@Kasim_Khan_1999
Today, my aunt, Aleema Khan, has been abducted by police in Lahore. Our family has been told nothing about where she has been taken. Her family and lawyers cannot reach her.
This is the behaviour of a fascist government - abducting people, terrorising families and trampling human rights, due process and the rule of law while pretending to stand for democracy.
First they imprisoned my father. Now they are coming after his family.
We demand immediate access to her for her family and lawyers, full disclosure of where she is being held, and her immediate release.
The world cannot keep looking away from what is happening in Pakistan.
Deeply concerning to see Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former PM Imran Khan, arrested and detained for 30 days under the Maintenance of Public Order law — days before PTI’s planned Sept 27 protest.
I interviewed her in December about her brother’s imprisonment.
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🚨BREAKING:
🇵🇰 Police have arrested Imran Khan's sister days after she spoke out against his treatment in prison
It's reported that Punjab Police forcibly took Aleema Khan into custody outside her home
Her whereabouts and those of her driver are presently unknown, as are the reasons for her arrest
Supporters are calling for her family and legal representatives to be informed of her whereabouts, the legal grounds for her detention, and any case under which she is being held
Source: @JKhanClassified / Writer: Ian
This is a disgrace.
Now my Aunts Dr. Uzma and Noureen, along with my cousins Shershah and Shahrez have now been abducted as well.
They have broken into my aunties and cousins houses and forced them
into vehicles with no explanation.
No reasons for arrest have been stated.
No news has been released as to where they have been taken.
This is criminal behaviour. Inexcusable. The Pakistani people are petrified of their own leaders.
No upstanding nation should tolerate this criminal establishment. Intervention is now imperative.
The world MUST take action.
Very powerful and much needed intervention from former Prime Minister @BorisJohnson calling on Pakistan to free @ImranKhanPTI
“What the Pakistani generals fear is that if they let him out, his millions of fans in Pakistan will simply bear him aloft to a tumultuous victory in the next available election. That is why they are treating him with such cruelty – refusing even to allow his two sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, to have visas to visit him in jail.”
https://t.co/MQrw0NGsA0
“Imran Khan is not in jail, in solitary confinement for more than three years now because of any corruption or crime. It is because the Pakistani Generals know that if they let him out, he will be carried aloft in the next election on a wave of support to a democratic victory.”- Former British Prime Minister @BorisJohnson
#FreeImranKhan
Boris Johnson: "Pakistani generals fear is that if they let him out there is a risk that in next election he will be carried aloft on a wave of tumultuous support by his millions of fans to a democratic victory. And that is what they fear"
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
Pakistan does recognize his worth. But, as in all times, those who have to give back the rights and resources that belong to the people, and those who aspire to his stature without deserving it, don't—or won't—recognize it!
#FreeImranKhan@BumbleCricket
Sister to former PM @ImranKhanPTI, @Aleema_KhanPK talks to @MarioNawfal, as Imran Khan remains arbitrarily detained for 1134 days; solitary confinement, incommunicado, vision loss in right eye, deteriorating health concerns, life at risk.
Asim Munir’s military dictatorship regime has Imran Khan illegally incarcerated under conditions which violate United Nations’ Nelson Mandela rules:
Extended periods of complete isolation with no contact with family, lawyers or personal physicians, solitary confinement in a ‘death cell’, no human contact, dirty water, suspect food, unsanitary conditions, 24/7 camera surveillance, no sunlight, no electricity, no books, no rights as per law, and DELIBERATE MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE (in blatant violation of Supreme Court’s order).
#FreeImranKhan