My latest for the Washington Post on Imran Khan. The legendary cricketer and politician Pakistan can jail, censor but never erase. @PostOpinions
https://t.co/F5YMqo9I5Y
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
With Trump’s victory in the #USA election, how would General Assim Munir explain the ongoing unjustified imprisonment of his friend Imran Khan. It is time to release Imran Khan and others who are being held without a fair judicial process. #Pakistan
In the last few weeks there have been serious and concerning developments regarding my sons’ father, Imran Khan’s treatment in prison. The Pakistan authorities have stopped all visits to him by his family and his lawyers. They have also postponed all court hearings. In addition to cutting off in- person visits, and in defiance of a court order, his weekly calls to his sons, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, who are British and who live in London, were stopped on 10th September. We have received reports that the authorities have now turned off the lights and electricity in his cell and he is no longer allowed to leave his cell at any time. The jail cook has been sent on leave. He is now completely isolated, in solitary confinement, literally in the dark, with no contact with the outside world. His lawyers are concerned about his safety and well-being.
These actions come in the context of ongoing targeting of Imran’s family, as well as his party (PTI) members and supporters in an attempt to silence them and all political opposition in Pakistan. Imran’s nephew, Hassan Niazi, a civilian, has been detained in military custody since August 2023. More recently, Imran Khan’s sisters, Uzma and Aleema Khan, who have continued to speak out on his behalf, have also been arrested as they made their way peacefully to a demonstration and they are currently being held in jail, despite there being no proper or lawful basis for their imprisonment.
In June this year the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Imran is unlawfully and arbitrarily detained and called for his immediate release.
��As a matter of urgency , we are calling for Imran Khan’s release, and for the release of his sisters and nephew as well as for his sons’ contact with their father to be re-established, so that they may have assurance first-hand that he is well and not being mistreated.
I'll be honest, this was one of the strangest interviews I've ever done. With someone behind bars. Abroad. Unable to do follow-up questions with him.
But an interview nevertheless of immense news value.
Please do read/share/subscribe:
"Exclusive: Imran Khan Talks to Me From Prison"
Another Zeteo exclusive: my interview with the former Pakistani prime minister, who tells me about his dire prison conditions, his view of the U.S. & the Pakistani military, & why the world should care:
https://t.co/8soUhWrkbh
اپنی جماعت کے مرکزی سیکرٹری اطلاعات رؤف حسن پر بزدلانہ حملے کی شدید مذمت کرتا ہوں۔ پوری قوم جانتی ہے کہ ہماری قیادت پر ایسے حملے کون کروا رہا ہے۔ یہ وہی قوّتیں ہیں جو پردوں کے پیچھے چھُپ کر وار کرتی،اپنے ٹاؤٹوں، اپنے مہروں کے ذریع�� خوف و ہراس پھیلاتی، ججوں کو دھمکاتی اور پوری ڈھٹائی سے انتخابی نتائج کے ساتھ چھیڑ چھاڑ کرکے پورے انتخابی عمل کو ایک مذاق بنا کر رکھ دیتی ہیں۔
کان کھول کر ہماری بات سُن لیں کہ پاکستان تحریک انصاف ان مکروہ ہتھکنڈوں اور پُرتشدد کارروائیوں سے ہرگز خوفزدہ نہیں ہوگی جن سے اس کے سوا کچھ بھی حاصل نہیں ہوتا کہ شرپسند قوم کے سامنے مزید بےنقاب ہوتے ہیں۔
جرم تمہارے ، معافی نامے ہمارے؟
کس بات کی معافی!
ایک کے بعد ایک ناکام قاتلانہ حملے کی
قتل کی سازش کے ساتھ ہی پوسٹ مارٹم کی پریس کانفرنس کی
ظل شاہ کے قتل کو حادثہ قرار دینے کی
عمران خان خود اپنے اغوا کی
اپنے مینڈیٹ چوری ہونے کی
ججوں کی کنپٹی پر پستول رکھ کر ��پنے خلاف سنائے گئے فیصلوں کی
پارٹی کے لوگوں کو ہراساں کر کے استیفیٰ لینے کی
ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر صاحب آپ تب پیدا بھی نہیں ہوئے تھے جب سے میں اپنے ملک کی نمائندگی کر رہا ہوں، میں نے پوری دنیا میں اپنے ملک کا سر فخر سے بلند کیا ۔ عمران خان
#May9th_FalseFlag#نو_مئی_بہانہ_PTI_نشانہ
بانی چئیرمین عمران خان کے ٹیلی گراف میں چھپنے والے آرٹیکل کا اے آئی ورژن
“میں یہ بات واضح طور پر کہہ چکا ہوں کہ اگر مجھے یا میری اہلیہ کو کچھ ہوا تو جنرل عاصم منیر اس کے ذمہ دار ہوں گے۔ لیکن مجھے کوئی خوف نہیں کیونکہ میرا ایمان مضبوط ہے۔ میں غلامی پر موت کو ترجیح دوں گا“