Zainab Shahid

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[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

https://t.co/dyfmm6jLeQ
This is the end of the 1973 Constitution. We must resist.

All refs to “Unrepresentative Parliament” = Unelected Parliament post stolen election fronting for Field Marshall Asim Munir’s lifelong military dictatorship #saynotocensorship
#nomoredoublespeak

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Whether IK is a "self-serving opportunist" is for the electorate to decide. See 8 Feb 2024. On the other hand, what's the Field Marshal? Altruistic savior messiah? Also plz do educate us about the merits of the "hybrid" setup. I'll start: military courts,27 Amendment, Kashmir...

[Ayesha Ijaz Khan @ayeshaijazkhan]

Agayee ho na aukat pay — that’s exactly how I knew you would react.

Instead of spewing nonsense about “Imranophobia” — get over your truthphobia and accept that Imran Khan had no morals.

It’s not only that he “made mistakes and terrible political choices” — he was a callous self-serving opportunist who thought what he did to others wouldn’t come back to bite him. Well guess what? He was wrong.

Once you can admit that, we can have a very cordial conversation about what the current hybrid setup is doing right and wrong.

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Your spite and facetiousness in the form of “what goes around comes around” isn’t going to bring back Naaru or any other victims of the state. But it certainly cheers on current injustices by the same actors who are responsible for the past injustices you’re pointing out.

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Let’s assume (incorrectly) that you’re making arguments in good faith and not Imran-phobia; even if IK made terrible mistakes and political choices in office, does that justify a former PM’s persecution by the military regime and the precedent it sets for our collective future?

[Ayesha Ijaz Khan @ayeshaijazkhan]

That description of Bushra was pure sarcasm — and as she’s routinely described in PTI circles — don’t pretend you didn’t know that.

As for what goes around, comes around — look up what happened to Mudassar Nauru (a poet) in Imran Khan’s time as PM — he was abducted and while he was in custody, his wife died crying, leaving behind a young child. When his grandmother met Imran with her plea, he pretended not to know anything about it — as PM! Then read about what he said to the Hazaras when they came to him with dead bodies. He said, “Don’t blackmail me!”

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

You got me, I don’t know how to read: “seduced by a spell-casting native witch-wife” doesn’t sound like a “critique” of Bushra.

Re cheering on when it happened to others, you must be referring to Nawaz’s time in solitary confinement without access to family or medical treatment

[Ayesha Ijaz Khan @ayeshaijazkhan]

You obviously didn’t follow the thread. @afiyaszia had critiqued Jemima, not Bushra. You need to ask PTI why they rate ex-wife Jemima over present incarcerated wife, Bushra.

Also, perhaps take some stock of how many times that “persecuted prisoner” defended the military for doing to others what is happening to him today. Allah bachaye aisay democrats say.

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Which local feminist principles are being defended here? The ones being used to demonize an unjustly incarcerated & persecuted political prisoner of the military regime as a “witch” because of her choice of attire? Allah bachaye aisay feminism se

[Afiya Shehrbano Zia @afiyaszia]

@sabizak Lazy. one can oppose every dictator and every imperialist intervention and every political leader while still defending local feminist principles. Those aren't contradictory positions…you just need more than one axis to think with.

[Haider Ali Butt @HaiderSalma_]

Desi Liberal feminists are the worst kind on planet Earth. She is following the legacy of her forefathers, a Desi Hexenkommissar, who used to execute women by falsely accusing them of being witches. When are you writing another shit book on this kind of wave of feminism?

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

In the light of this report Executive Director of PIMS should be fired because this report clearly says that life-safety arrangements in PIMS were compromised not as per standard requirements.

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Completely perverse priorities when the authorities are more interested in suppressing news and locking people up during an emergency than saving lives and doing the right thing :

[خان @khantainer]

Another eyewitness statement from PIMS:

There was no one available to rescue the babies, so people tried to put out the fire themselves.

[Mohammad Zubair @Real_MZubair]

Dr Faisal was kept in police custody between 8.30 pm on Thursday evening (outside Adiyala jail) till 4.30 Friday morning (Shifa hospital) - for 8 long hours without even once taking him to examine Imran khan even for a minute.
This despite clear written judgment of the SC. Such is the brutality and fascism of this government

[Usama Khilji @UsamaKhilji]

Maybe the next amendment should the rename the CDF to Badshah Salamat. 👑

[Mariana Baabar @MarianaBaabar]

IK did not go to Shifa so how did Shifa release tests?
SC had prohibited medical reports to be made public.
#boys make up their own rules as they go

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Imran Khan wanted to go to Shifa and get treatment per SC orders. He’s been in solitary confinement for 10+ months, denied human access, information or medical treatment. He fears he will meet the same fate as Morsi who died in prison. This is a cruel trick on the whole nation.

[PTI @PTIofficial]

عمران خان نے پمز میں اپنی بہن @DrUzma_KhanPK سے ملاقات کے دوران کہا-
”میرے ساتھ ظلم ہو رہا ہے، مجھے اذیت دی جا رہی ہے۔“- عمران خان

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Last few hours remaining in the Supreme Court’s “within the next two days” deadline to move Imran Khan to hospital. Let there be no mistake: this is a test of whether the SC’s orders and rule of law mean anything at all in Pakistan. Hoping for a departure from recent history:

[Khan Saab @Hanii_tales]

“Pass the bill or Imran Khan will return.”

That fear has become the military establishment’s biggest bargaining chip. New bills, new amendments, more power handed over by this fake government terrified of losing its seat. Pakistan is paying the price & being pushed decades back.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

“I’m not talking because every time I talk, blood comes out of my mouth and makes my dress dirty, and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”

Hind Rajab’s last words to the paramedics she was on the phone with before Israeli soldiers pumped 355 bullets into the car she was in.

[Usama Khilji @UsamaKhilji]

2019 vs 2026

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Anybody following politics in Pak knows that the Supreme Court did not independently order IK's move to hospital and (barely) reinstate his fundamental rights. PML-N's resistance through bogus reviews and amnesia re their own past is both despicable and revealing of its fears

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

Does the regime really think they're going to get a PR boost from blocking foreign media from covering Pakistan? This is from the Supreme Court today

[Fakhar Ur Rehman @Fakharrehman01]

Foreign media barred from Supreme court to cover IK case?

[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

Imran Khan's medical reports are alarming. I have gone through them with several specialists, and I am writing this in plain language so every Pakistani can understand exactly what is happening.

In order of priority, this is what worries me most: his anxiety and stress levels, his palpitations, and his high blood pressure. Sleeplessness is not mentioned in the report, but looking at the medications, it is almost certainly there too.

I have known Imran Khan for more than 35 years. Stress was never his weakness. That it is now at peak levels tells you everything about what three years of imprisonment and total isolation have done to him.

The causes are not hard to understand: the state of the country, his colleagues in jail, those sentenced, the killed, and their grieving families. His own isolation, no newspapers, no books, no knowledge of what is happening outside. And yes, his anxiety over Bushra Bibi, his sisters, his workers and his party.

Look at the medications, as there is no diagnosis. He is on Citanil and Lexotanil, three times a day. That is not sleeplessness being treated. That is daytime anxiety being treated. Read that twice.

His heart rate is 54 bpm. Doctors will call that "normal." It is not normal for him. His resting heart rate has been in the low 40s his whole adult life, the mark of a lifelong elite athlete. A jump to 54 is a real shift.

He has reported heart palpitations. That is not something to note and move on from. It needs a 24-hour Holter monitor immediately, to catch the frequency and get him on the right medication. Even an Apple Watch linked to an Apple ID outside Pakistan (as that function is disabled in Pakistan) can flag Atrial Fibrillation and palpitations in real time.

He is on three separate BP medications now. That requires proper daily AM/PM monitoring to titrate correctly, not once-a-week guesswork. He is also on a cholesterol-lowering drug. Raised cholesterol at his age is both genetic and stress-driven, and needs diet, exercise, and medication working together, as does his blood pressure. Less salt. More movement. Real monitoring.

And the following tests that must happen now, without further delay:
1) A Stress Test
2) An Echocardiogram
3) Cardiac MRI
4) Cardiac Artery Calcium (CAC) scan, because of raised cholesterol to check for calcified deposits that block arteries and lead directly to heart attacks or the need for stents.
5) Cardiac CT Angiogram and other tests if indicated.

I am deeply worried. Isolation is taking a physical toll on his body. If this is not addressed immediately, the damage may become irreversible with more complications to follow.

@ImranKhanPTI definitely needs to be moved to a hospital environment now, under an independent panel of doctors. Neither his family nor the people of Pakistan trust government-appointed doctors alone. We have already seen reports manipulated before, numbers exaggerated or suppressed, platelets among them.

The next three months will decide whether his condition is reversed or becomes permanent.

We all are alarmed.

The country needs him more than ever before. May Allah keep him healthy. Ameen. 🤲

[Zainab Shahid @zainabstan]

This 14th August, can’t help but think of Imran Khan, Yasmin Rashid, Imaan Mazari & Hadi Ali, Mahrang Baloch, and Mir Raza Ali & his family. May Pakistan be a less punishing home for more of its inhabitants.