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President, @VizierConsult . Editor, @GlobelyNews . Contributor @ForeignPolicy , @TheNatlInterest , @WPReview , & more.

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. @KhalilJeries says the silence of evangelical Christians in the U.S. on the existential threat that Palestinian Christians face in Gaza from Israel's military offensive is "really painful" for him as a Palestinian Christian. 🎧 LISTEN to the full podcast:…

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6 months

CNN's @FareedZakaria on journalists who have embedded with the IDF in Gaza: "As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms...."

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وہ کون تھا؟

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2 years

lol, only in Pakistan:

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@bungarsargon Misleading and shameless for you to not include the whole quote. Tomorrow you’ll go on Fox News and talk about how the “liberal media” lies. But what did you just do here?

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3 months

Clearly, a case of premature electulation.

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Nawaz is coming !

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A poor choice by Gen. Bajwa to use the occasion of Defense Day to defend his personal legacy and attack his opponents. The speech, both in its content and delivery, was artless and tasteless. Bajwa’s successor must truly learn from his mistakes.

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This must be pretty humiliating. Miftah not only has to steady a sinking economy but also feed Gharidah’s kutta on Maryam’s orders. In this hierarchical society, even the finance minister is treated like a naukar. Says a lot about why the country is in dire straits.

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As they say, the cover-up is worse than the crime. Will only get uglier.

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This is a bad look for @TheDailyShow , @ComedyCentralPR , @kalpenn . Tonight’s guest is a foreign leader whose gov’t is tear-gassing the home of the top opposition ldr. They’re also obstructing the investigation into a failed assassination attempt on him. cc: @MarlowNYC @TimTeeman

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BilawalBhuttoZardari

@BBhuttoZardari

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I will be joining @kalpenn on @TheDailyShow Tuesday evening 🇺🇸 time. Looking forward to discussing 🇵🇰 & 🇺🇸 ties and much more.

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Another bombshell report by @theintercept : Pakistan secretly sold arms to the U.S. for Ukraine. And those sales helped Pakistan get an IMF bailout.

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U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal

The U.S.-brokered IMF loan let Pakistan’s military postpone elections, deepen a brutal crackdown, and jail former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

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Watching Imran Khan’s speech right now and this portion of the speech is directly addressed to the army. It’s as if he’s at the corps commanders conference and telling them all this to their faces. Such is the power of his pulpit.

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Went to the beach for a little break. Palestinian guy starts talking to me, asks if I’m from Pakistan. Then he asks, “You have a new president, right?” I say there’s a new PM. Then he says, “Yeah, America didn’t want him to be in power. They want to be the world’s policeman.” 😆

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In terms of COAS candidates, possibly the least controversial three-star… Would be historic too! 😂

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1 year

Rich people who rule poor countries buy luxury goods from rich countries and then beg them for money in the name of their poor people.

@hashim_i

NA-48 mandate stolen by 🥾

1 year

Great to see current Foreign (and future Prime, if the Generals have their way) Minister, Joffrey Bhutto wearing more than twice Pakistan's GDP per capita on his feet.

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It’s 1:30am in Lahore where former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is addressing massive crowd from a bulletproof container. His life remains in danger after a failed assassination attempt last year. The turnout is huge in spite of government attempts to block attendees.

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The Pakistan Army's counternarrative right now focuses on the condemnable violence of May 9. But to be effective, it would require the public to forget the killing of Arshad Sharif, attempted murder of IK, recording naked videos of elderly ppl, dragging of ex-PM out of court, etc

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How the Pakistani media will now portray the country's 1992 cricket World Cup victory:

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Caroline Davies

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Two sources at different TV stations confirm to BBC that they've been told not to mention or show Imran Khan, not even on their ticker tape Seems the authorities are not done trying to isolate Mr Khan We haven't heard back from the government or media regulator @reportpemra

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Much has happened in Pakistan in just the past week, but the latest publicly available pol. opinion survey (conducted in late Mar.-early April) finds: • 71% of respondents said they’d vote for Khan’s PTI • 70% blame the current gov’t, the army*, or both for the present crisis.

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Glad to see Mian Sb. continues to protect his chin from COVID

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There’s a constitutional crisis in Pakistan and @BBhuttoZardari is silent. With his internship over, it appears Bilawal is lying low and playing video games until a general makes him PM.

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9 months

This is a bombshell report by @theintercept .

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2 years

Funeral prayer (namaz-e janaza) of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif, who was assassinated in Kenya on Sunday:

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U.S. officials say they don’t want to get caught up in Pakistan’s messy internal politics. But the problem is no language improves the poor optics of meeting with an appointee who remains in office beyond his constitutional tenure due to the illegal delay of provincial elections.

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U.S. Consulate General Lahore

8 months

🇺🇸🤝🇵🇰 In Lahore today, U.S. Ambassador Blome and CG Hawkins emphasized support for a thriving, democratic Pakistan and the need for interfaith harmony in their meeting with Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi. #USPak

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CJP comes down hard on military’s businesses (But silent on the elections it just rigged, lol.)

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CJP comes down hard on military’s businesses

Justice Isa asks govt to ensure armed forces focus on defence rather than commercial activities.

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Imran Khan's party has a very strong social media operation. So strong that the civilian gov't & army are targeting its social media team. Imran Khan's social media head @MashwaniAzhar is believed to have been abducted by the ISI. Recent past has seen torture & custodial deaths.

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@GreenblattJD @united Sir, this is a Wendy’s

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Pakistan’s election commission website down. So too is the website of the country’s largest news channel, Geo News.

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The Pakistan Army has developed a new AI chatbot named KamranGPT that gives you the final election results before voting actually happens:

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Kamran Khan

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اچھی بات ہے کہ پوری قوم حتی کہ پوری دنیا کو پتا ہے فروری 8 الیکشن کے نتائج کیا ہوں گے بہر حال ایک نئے دور کا آغاز ہوگا پاکستان SIFC کے ستون پر کھڑا مخلوط ( Hybrid ) یا (Inclusive) نظام حکومت سادہ لفظوں میں کہنا چاہئیے جمہوری فوجی اشراک کا ایک اور تجربہ کرنے جارہا ہے۰ اس سے…

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The Bajwa legacy: if he retires, on many, if not most fronts, he will leave behind a Pakistan that is worse off than when he assumed leadership of the army. Pakistan is in real dire straits.

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Naimat Khan

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A driver has been killed and two students injured in an attack on school van in Guli Bagh, #Swat in northwest Pakistan, reports @syedazmatjmc

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1 year

Today, the pursuit of a “minus-one solution” turned deadly. Those struggling to make sense of it: understand the mindset of those who rule Pakistan. They’ll say, yes Pakistan would burn for a few months, but only for a few months. Then a Khan-less PTI would split into factions.

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Apparently, among Pakistan's 240 million people, only two people — two people who would otherwise be unable to get a job in the real world — are fit to rule the country in the future. Only two people.

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زرداری اور نواز ایسے فیصلے کریں کہ آئندہ میرے اور مریم کے لیے سیاست آسان ہو: بلاول بھٹو

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I don't intend this as a personal attack on Mr. Kakar, but his appointment as caretaker PM shows the army values compliance over competence. As I discuss here, this is the Balochistan model of managed politics. During the Q&A at the Council on Foreign…

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Pakistan: The New Egypt on the Indus

Pakistan’s caretaker setup — intended to be a period of transition — will probably instead be a period of transformation.

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1 year

One could interpret this tweet by this Pakistani journalist as conveying a threat to Imran Khan on behalf of a senior ISI official. He writes that Khan's "protection has ended" with General Bajwa's retirement today. Khan was the target of a failed assassination bid this month.

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جنرل باجوہ کی ریٹائرمنٹ کے ساتھ ہی کپتان کی پروٹیکشن آج ختم ہو چکی ہے اس لیئے آب وہ دن چلے گئے جب اسٹیبلشمنٹ کی ریڈ لائنز کراس کرنے کے باوجود بھی بچت ہوتی رہی ۔ جنرل عاصم منیر کے ہاتھ میں پاک فوج کی کمانڈ آتے ہی جنرل ندیم انجم پہلے کے مقابلے میں کئی گناہ زیادہ طاقتور ہوچکے ہی۔

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11 months

The case of the missing Imran Riaz Khan makes it to the Wall Street Journal:

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Worries Grow Over Fate of Missing Pakistani Journalist

A top television anchor disappeared during a crackdown on supporters of former leader Imran Khan.

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Bilawal is the new ladla. He’ll be a primary beneficiary of this round of political engineering. Easier to control. Unpopular and the agencies probably already have terabytes of videos of him.

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PPP to back bid to ban PTI, Bilawal tells PM

Bilawal rules out possibility of a constitutional amendment to establish new military courts.

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Three U.S. civilian officials meet two Pakistani army leaders. U.S. amb. to Pakistan is in view, but no indication the Pakistani amb. to U.S. was even in the room. Also noteworthy: U.S. amb. served most recently in Tunisia during the coup, and, years earlier, in Egypt during…

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The lone channel-branded microphone there serves as a metaphor for the symbolic relationship btwn "private" media & intel agencies in Pakistan today. Inflation at a record high. Default is near. Meanwhile, news channels gleefully broadcast live abductions & forced defections.

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Breaking coming 🚨

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“Resentment at both the army and the politicians is rising within law enforcement, too. ‘Like them, I also wear uniform, and I know them all. They think they are above the law. Only [Imran] Khan can correct them,’ a police officer told me.”

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ISI's 92-pg. "dossier" against Imran Khan paints him as a religious extremist, even referencing a 1997 visit to Chechnya at the invitation of Aslan Maskhadov. 1) Authors suffer from a lack of self-awareness. 2) Maskhadov was a respected, moderate, & principled freedom fighter.

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2 years

Not just mere software updates these days, there’s also switching to a whole other operating system:

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Hamid Mir حامد میر

2 years

اصل کہانی: پاکستان کو FATF کی گرے لسٹ سے نکالنے کے لئے GHQمیں DGMOکی سربراہی می�� 2019 میں اسپیشل سیل قائم کیاگیا اس وقت صرف 5نکات پر پیش رفت تھی اس سیل نے 30 سے زائد وزارتوں اور ایجنسیز کے درمیان کوارڈینیشن کی اور تمام 34 نکات پر عمل درآمد کروا کر پاکستان کو گرے لسٹ سے نکلوا یا

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Fearful that Imran Khan's PTI could still win Pakistan's February 8 general elections, the army is going to great lengths to deny the party a victory.

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Pakistan's Farcical Election

Fearful that Imran Khan's PTI could still win Pakistan's Feb. 8 general elections, the army is going to great lengths to deny it a victory.

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Defiance as a vibe. The boys can’t put this genie back in the bottle.

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PTI MIANWALI

3 months

میانوالی پولیس اور کارکنوں کے درمیان آنکھ مچولی کی ویڈیو😂 فلمی سین

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A simple, but provocative question that eventually came to be seen as subversive. A question for which he paid with his own life.

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2 years

The extraterritorial assassination of a journalist is the type of action that can trigger calls for a U.N. investigation and U.S. sanctions under the Magnitsky Act.

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The messaging from the Pakistan Army and its media amplifiers is it's has been exceedingly patient over the past yr and that's over. But to believe that, you'd have to suspend judgment about the attempted assassination of Imran Khan, the leaks, Mohsin Naqvi's links w/ the army.

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Excellent Q by @ryangrim , comparing the Biden admin's reactions to the Pakistan and Venezuela elections. Note how @StateDeptSpox constructs his response: he goes into detail on Venezuela but sticks to generics on Pakistan and is non-committal re: an assessment of the Khan case.

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@RyanGrim presses @StateDeptSpox on discrepancy in US response to 🇻🇪 & US ally🇵🇰: "Nothing about [Imran Khan's] prosecution seems less than kangaroo. So why would Venezuela's be a political case, but when it comes to Pakistan, that's a matter for the Pakistani courts?"

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Azam Swati, a Pakistani politician recently tortured by the ISI, now says his wife received an intimate video of them secretly recorded during a stay at gov’t lodges arranged by an ISI-backed politician. He says the video is an attempt by the ISI to blackmail him.

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Shocking details of what happened last night to Azam Swati and his family being stated by @AzamKhanSwatiPk himself 2/2

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Pakistani diplomats posted in the U.S. are not being paid because their government simply doesn’t have the dollars to pay their salaries. But the country’s foreign minister will make a prolonged visit to the U.S. later this month aimed in part at self-promotion.

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Arab News Pakistan

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#Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will visit the #UnitedStates from December 14-21, the @ForeignOfficePk said on Monday

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Strange. The number of valid votes (i.e. excluding invalid votes) is actually greater than the total votes cast (including the invalid votes). Dar Sb.'s accounting?

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Yes, the “nation needs stable hands.” Just not around its neck.

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Dawn.com

3 months

Elections 2024: Nation needs stable hands, healing touch to move on from politics of anarchy, polarisation, says COAS Follow our live election coverage here:

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In Pakistan's torturous politics, it's generally the children who avenge wrongs done to their parents. This time around, it was a mother's turn.

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Don Lu appears again! 😂 "...Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Masood Khan sat down with Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu...for a meeting about how Pakistani arms sales to Ukraine could shore up its financial position in the eyes of the IMF."

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U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal

The U.S.-brokered IMF loan let Pakistan’s military postpone elections, deepen a brutal crackdown, and jail former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

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Another bombshell report by @theintercept : Pakistan secretly sold arms to the U.S. for Ukraine. And those sales helped Pakistan get an IMF bailout.

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For the State Dept’s “concern” about allegations of election interference in Pakistan to be credible, you’d have to ignore the past two years of its policy toward Pakistan. It literally hosted the Pakistani army chief in December. The man who is trying to rig these polls now.

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Pakistan’s SC chief justice advised a lawyer who was kidnapped for a week by security agencies to stop complaining. This was at a hearing on a new law the lawyer was challenging. He was kidnapped to get him to withdraw his petition against the law.

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CJP offers platitudes to cope with testing times

Says Pakistan passing through a transition, and everyone must show courage, fortitude and patience.

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A Pakistani politician says a video purportedly of him in which he says he's dropping out of tomorrow's elections is actually AI-generated. He says he's still in the race. (He's w/ ex-PM Imran Khan's PTI. The army is desperately trying to decrease turnout among Khan supporters.)

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Muhammad Basharat Raja

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3 months

آرٹیفیشل انٹیلیجنس کے ذریعے فیک ویڈیو پھیلائی جا رہی ہیں۔ میں حلقہ #NA55 سے تحریک انصاف کا اُمیدوار ہوں اور انشاللہ کل ہم یہ سیٹ بھاری لیڈ سے جیتیں گے۔ #ووٹ_قیدی_عمران_خان_کا

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Could this impact @DunyaNews 's broadcasting license in the UK, @Ofcom ? This Pakistani channel just aired an interview with a politician who was abducted by the state. Strangely, the interview took place at the home of the interviewer, who is seen as close to Pakistani…

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Asad Ali Toor

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Senior journalists and journalist bodies should come forward and take a position that can a journalist or anchor give his/her platform for airing any abductee/prisoner’s under pressure so called confessions or revelations? Let’s call out loud and clear! #UsmanDar #PTI #DunyaNews

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The optics of this tweet & the press conf are strange to say the least. I hope those who’ve been actively spreading Pakistani gov’t talking pts take a pause on this one. Esp. if you’re a woman. There has to be a red line, right? Pls. don’t let politics consume all of your values.

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Rana Sana Ullah Khan

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11 months

The country's agencies intercepted a conversation, revealing disturbing plots and planned actions, including a raid on the PTI leader's house and a staged rape. Objective: falsely implicate law enforcement institutions in the crime, aiming to internationalise the issue.

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Israel’s advocates continue to engage in a very, very dark campaign of famine denial. What Klompas omits is that this World Food Program bakery in north Gaza just opened today. And days ago, USAID’s Samantha Power said famine has already begun in parts of north Gaza.

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😂 “immykFC”

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This is not a good sign

ISI and MI say Imran Riaz not in their custody, senior cop tells LHC

LHC asks journalist's legal team to meet police, provide them with any evidence in their possession.

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Caught the tail end of Hamid Mir’s interview with Miftah Ismail. Miftah Sb. tried to give an answer on SBP autonomy issue that would satisfy IMF, other lenders, & voters, but Hamid Mir has no ability to comprehend or articulate economic issues with even a modicum of nuance, lol.

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I don't think this deadly attack on an elderly Sikh man in Queens even made the news.

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Mayor Eric Adams

6 months

Jasmer Singh loved his city and deserved so much more than his tragic death. On behalf of all New Yorkers, I want our Sikh community to know you have more than our condolences. You have our sacred vow that we reject the hatred that took this innocent life and we will protect you.

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Under pressure from the U.S. and the EU to hold elections this fall, Pakistan's rulers are banking on their covert arming of Ukraine to induce the West to look the other way.

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Fearing Imran Khan, Pakistan's Elections May Be Postponed

Pakistan's rulers are mulling the delay of this fall's general elections to give them more time to neutralize the popular ex-PM Imran Khan.

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Bizarre: the head of Pakistan’s election commission won’t meet his own country’s president, but will meet the U.S. ambassador.

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@GreenblattJD @united Is the word “sorry” in your vocabulary? You took a photo of strangers, posted it for the world to see, and leveled a false accusation at them, tagging their employer. Have some shame.

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Imran Khan: Jailed Pakistan Ex-PM’s Voice Breaks Free Through AI

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Imran Khan: Jailed Pakistan Ex-PM's Voice Breaks Free Through AI

Imprisoned ex-PM Imran Khan addresses his supporters ahead of Pakistan's February 8 general elections using artificial intelligence.

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Pakistan Army issues hard-hitting statement clearly aimed at Imran Khan & his PTI. Some alarming language: • "conclusive defeat" • "dealt with iron hands" • tightening the "noose of law" The latter is concerning given Khan is now being falsely implicated in a murder case.

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We are deeply concerned by the lack of presidential elections in Mali this month. We call on the transition government to honor its 2022 commitments and announce an updated electoral calendar to reach a new era of civilian-led democratic governance for the Malian people.

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Alexei Navalny, Imran Khan and Washington's Double Standards

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Alexei Navalny, Imran Khan and Washington's Double Standards

Washington's swiftness in blaming Russia for Alexei Navalny's death contrasts with its indifference to the failed attempt to kill Imran Khan.

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Overseas Pakistanis who remit over $50,000 will also get an exemption from one round of scrotal electrocution during abduction.

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Part 2/3: · Health insurance card for journalists and artists · Duty exemption on the raw material used for solar panels, batteries · Tax exemption extended for Real Estate Investment Trusts · Diamond card for overseas Pakistanis: who send back over $50,000 to the country.

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Is having Rana Sanaullah on Geo for 40 minutes straight every day just leveling insults an effective communications strategy for the PML-N-led government? Who is he convincing?

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Really interesting use of Spaces. Ex-PM of Pakistan @ImranKhanPTI , facing arrest & potential threats to his life again, takes direct Qs & comments from among the 63K+ participants. He’s motivating them — says the darkest hour is just before dawn — & they’re motivating him too.

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Imran Khan, who led Pakistan’s national cricket team to a surprise World Cup victory in 1992, hopes to pull off another big win in Thursday's elections — this time from behind bars.

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Pakistan Elections: Will Imran Khan Defy the Odds Again?

Pakistan's generals believe they have Thursday's election in the bag. But supporters of Imran Khan could pull off a surprise.

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Today: Send in paramilitary forces to violently arrest a former PM while he’s *in court*. Tomorrow: Host a security conf. on overcoming global divides. Pakistan’s rulers want the world’s respect. Flying in Peter Frankopan ain’t going to do the trick. Trying behaving normally.

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Khan addresses the military spokesman, tells him he’s been representing Pakistan internationally before mil spox was even born. Uses the respectful pronoun “aap,” while aiming to put him in his place.

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ISPR Saaheb! 🤣🤣

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While Trump and Khan share much in common, there’s one huge difference between the two: Khan is actually the target of the Deep State.

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The Parallel Lives of Donald Trump and Imran Khan

Donald Trump and Imran Khan have much in common. But there’s one huge difference between them: Khan is actually the target of the Deep State.

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Translation: Third place Bilawal is trying to claim part of Imran Khan's victory and some of Khan's candidates. (Bilawal is banking on the ISI pressuring Khan-aligned independents to vote for him as PM.) Hopefully the results aren't being rigged to facilitate that outcome.

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Results are incredibly slow coming in. However, initial results are very encouraging ! PPP candidates and independents whom we have supported/ engaged with seem to be doing well! Let’s see what the final tally is in the end… ✌️

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Pakistan is among the few non-Western countries arming Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion.

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Why Is Pakistan Arming Ukraine?

Pakistan, along with Azerbaijan, is among the few non-Western countries arming Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion.

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@FrontalForce Source:

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After being abducted by police, a winning candidate with Imran Khan’s PTI was brought to court with a plastic bag over his head. An obvious risk of suffocation. I think @StateDeptSpox would call this an “irregularity.” The same words he’d use for Alexei Navalny’s death, right?

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🚨🚨 Dear World, After the historically rigged elections in Pakistan, this is what has been done to the winning candidates of the PTI to force them into supporting the PML-N Government. In this video, a PTI-winning candidate, Ahmer Bhatti from PP165, is presented in the court…

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Pakistan is running out of dollars. Banks are not issuing letters of credit. Pakistani diplomatic staff overseas are not being paid. GDP growth rate will fall to 2 percent (or below) this FY. But Pakistan's ruling party is celebrating its latest political maneuvering.

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Checkmate

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Pakistan's army chief (and de facto ruler) is currently in the U.S. He met with Secretary of State Blinken last week. I imagine there will be a question on this social media shutdown by the military-dominated government at tomorrow's State Department press conference.

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⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show a nation-scale disruption to social media platforms across #Pakistan , including X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube; the incident comes just ahead of a major virtual gathering organized by persecuted opposition leader Imran Khan's party, PTI

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Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee says that not only should allegations of election interference in Pakistan be investigated, but that those responsible for election fraud “must be held accountable.” Last part should have folks in Pindi worried.

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“Any allegations of corruption or fraud must be fully investigated, and those responsible must be held accountable. The United States supports the right of the Pakistani people to a democratically elected government that respects the rule of law and human rights.” (2/2)

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But like its Egyptian counterpart, the Pakistan Army can't be an engine of reform because it is committed to maintaining its inefficient, parasitic role in the country's economy.

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Pakistan: The New Egypt on the Indus

Pakistan’s caretaker setup — intended to be a period of transition — will probably instead be a period of transformation.

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The Intercept got the full text of the cable on a Pakistani amb.'s mtg. w/ a State Dept. official. The amb. serves head of gov't (was PM Khan then). But Pak mil also reads these comms. State official tells Pak amb. multiple times that if Khan is booted bilat ties will improve.

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NEW: Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan by @mazmhussain & me

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Pakistan’s caretaker setup — intended to be a period of transition — will probably instead be a period of transformation. General Asim Munir is likely to seek to reshape Pakistani politics with two models in mind: Balochistan and Egypt.

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Pakistan: The New Egypt on the Indus

Pakistan’s caretaker setup — intended to be a period of transition — will probably instead be a period of transformation.

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Brain drain will not only accelerate, may also see a decline in visits back home given risk of being tried in a military court or secretly recorded in your hotel room for future use as blackmail. People will just choose to live normal lives in the US & Canada and never look back.

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Unprecedented brain drain underway. Whoever can get a job abroad is leaving. Sets Pakistan back by atleast av decade. So poorly thought through.

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Biggest sign of the election being rigged is Amir Muqam winning a seat lol

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Alexei Navalny, Imran Khan and Washington's Double Standards

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Alexei Navalny, Imran Khan and Washington's Double Standards

Washington's swiftness in blaming Russia for Alexei Navalny's death contrasts with its indifference to the failed attempt to kill Imran Khan.

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Wow -- this is a big story: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau says the Indian government could be behind the assassination of a Canadian Sikh leader in British Columbia.

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Hardeep Singh Nijjar: Canada accuses India of role in Sikh leader's murder

PM Trudeau described "credible allegations potentially linking" Delhi with Hardeep Singh Nijjar's killing.

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What's also striking here is that after Trudeau discussed the murder with Indian PM Modi at the G20 summit, his plane was discovered to have technical issues. Trudeau refused to use a plane offered by New Delhi and was stuck there for two days.

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Wow -- this is a big story: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau says the Indian government could be behind the assassination of a Canadian Sikh leader in British Columbia.

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A blurry Imran Khan actually appears for about a millisecond 34 seconds into this video on the legends of Pakistani cricket. I had to pause, restart, and rewind the 1992 part of the video like a dozen times to find him. Not visible in normal viewing. Close enough to what I…

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One of Pakistan’s top journalists @MazharAbbasGEO says the country is "headed toward a sham democracy." He bids adieu to the falling pillars of democracy: "Goodbye to constitution, goodbye to rule of law, and goodbye to freedom of expression."

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1 year

Looks like the chaprasification of Asim Munir is complete. A poor look for the army chief to be seen as just another Ramzan Sugar Mills employee.

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Many senior officers believe that Munir is overly beholden to Sharif and bound to do his bidding. Munir's mismanagement of the situation, especially in the last few days, has caused several senior officers, including some Corps commanders, to threaten to resign.

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They should just change the name of this show to “Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Aur Rana Sanaullah Kay Saath.”

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Another day, another abduction in Pakistan. For the Biden administration, this is all just an internal matter for Pakistan. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

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This is actually true

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The Karachi mayor is selected through an indirect election. This person’s party won the Karachi mayoral election though its rivals had a majority of seats. How did his party win? It forced dozens of local council members from the other side not to vote. Some were kidnapped.

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Humbled, honored and greatful for the trust reposed in me and my party by the people of Pakistan once again. From Karachi to Kashmore the peoples party has emerged victorious in sindh local body elections. Today our chairman and mayors have been elected across the province. In a…

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On a side note, this quote from Don Lu in the cipher is amusing: “I think we will actually see a change in India’s policy once all Indian students are out of Ukraine.” Reflect the rose-colored glasses with which the DC establishment views India.

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Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan

“All will be forgiven,” said a U.S. diplomat, if the no-confidence vote against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeds.

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The Pakistan Army may have the ability to coerce, but it can no longer convince. Its strong-arm tactics to neutralize Khan as a political force have backfired. He's as popular as ever. For Khan's rivals, election day may end up being a day of reckoning.

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Imran Khan Remains Pakistan's Most Popular Politician By Far

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan holds a 60 percent approval rating — surpassing his major rivals by at least 24 points.

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