Always unabashedly replug my selfie with Noam Chomsky ❤ taken at his MIT office in Nov 2010. Today reposting it to mark his rejection of PTI/IK's claim of a US conspiracy behind his govt's ouster. 😈✌🏽
#notsorry
Shireen Abu Aqleh, veteran Palestinian
#journalist
w/ AlJazeera, shot dead in the head by Israeli forces during raid on
#Jenin
Refugee Camp, another journalist wounded. She was wearing her press vest at the time of shooting. Rip!
#endimpunity
4 months into 2023 & Pk
#blasphemy
lynch mobs are in action again. Mr Tian a Chinese national, incharge heavy transport at Dasu Dam Kohistan accused of blasphemy over reprimanding a driver for skipping work to pray. 295-C & terrorism charges in FIR, accused now in police custody.
Just spoke to Mrs Saira, wife of Pashtun Member National Assembly
@Aliwazirna50
. Saira is more worried this time about his illegal detention than before. She says he has never sounded as worried as he did when she spoke to him for a few mins today.
#releaseAliWazir
Speechless. IK is tweeting about "Hindutva Supremacist fascist ideology" of India, the same day when in Pakistan a young man is sentenced to death over false blasphemy charges & his last lawyer was gunned down for defending him by violent Muslim supremacists in '14.
#JunaidHafeez
Over the last 5 years of Modi's govt, India has been moving towards Hindu Rashtra with its Hindutva Supremacist fascist ideology. Now with the Citizens Amendment Act, all those Indians who want a pluralist India are beginning to protest & it is becoming a mass movement.
Manzoor decides to not criticise Pakistani media for the lack of PTM reporting. "Pakistani media... well media is occupied itself... "Occupied Media". *Maqbooza media* is a big sixer from
#Pashtunlongmarch2karachi
.
DC ISB says the leaked video of assault by Usman Mirza is months old. -- Mirza's fb has a post from May where he said he was about to get arrested but would get bail. He got bail for the same case and got arrested again only after a social media campaign???
#ArrestUsmanMirza
.
@HUSNAINJAMEEL
MPhil student of PU, seen playing darbuka in this video is
#StudentsSolidarityMarch
organizer. Punjab Uni cancelled his degree. Husnain was informed verbally about the termination & was never given a warning. He was also barred from entering Punjab Uni campus.
As per vids uploaded from Sialkot, sr manager of Rajco Industry tore off a paper w/ words Labbaik Ya Hussain. Factory workers Talha, Furhan complained & decided on the spot to kill the SriLankan national. Here they quoted the Tehreek Labbaik's call for murder & other slogans. 👇🏽
Junaid Hafeez, blasphemy accused university teacher of Bahauddin Zakariya Uni, on trial for blasphemy for more than six years has been sentenced to death today by a Multan court. This is a vile and gross miscarriage of justice.
#junaidhafeez
#blasphemylaw
In 24 hrs 3 *unrelated* incidents in
#Pakistan
: MNA
@mjdawar
barred entry in Balochistan & taken to unknown location, govt official disappeared from Islamabad after a journo investigates an ex Lt Gen's business empire, dissident lawyer gets disappeared in Sindh.
#DasangaAzadiDa
Piercing clarity from Jalila Haider, Hazara hunger striker in Quetta while talking to Sarfaraz Bugti. She is a lawyer &
#humanrights
defender. Here she points out the hypocrisy of intelligence offcrs who profile HRDs & question their *funding* while ignoring sectarian militants.
A Punjabi boy from Lahore is not allowed to stand against the killings & discrimination of Pashtuns, forced disappearances of the Baloch & Sindhis, the rights of peasants of Okara or nationalists from GB. God forbid if the Punajbis woke up!
#ReleaseAmmarJan
#releaseptmactivists
Dissident Sarmad Sultan, 25, appears to have been forcibly disappeared. State's campaign of enforced disappearances continues w/ impunity. Despite govt's acknowledgement & pledge to criminalize disappearances, there is no end in sight to this heinous crime.
#bringbacksarmadsultan
Watched the video, a vile sickening propaganda tactic of Imran Riaz Khan, Sami Ibrahim & Jamil Farooqi, mocking and trivialising male-on-male ra*e & sexual assault, in an attempt to discredit and smear one of Pakistan's most ethical and courageous journalist Matiullah Jan.
Rich Pakistani begums travel to the US and Canada to give birth and upgrade their kids' passports, but Afghan children born & brought up in Pk due to decades long conflict Pk state contributed to are not considered Pakistani.
#AfghanRefugeesInPakistan
*Zaleel khwar kar k waasil e jahanum kar chadya*. We sent him to hell. These young lynchers are brainwashed into thinking that TLP's word on practicing Islam is the ultimate truth. TLP has mainstreamed radicalisation. Feel terrible for those exposed to their narrative.
#Sialkot
1/ The TV news host known for disrespecting Noor Mukaddam after her death & mocking Matiuallah Jan, was a misogynist workplace bully when he started out & was complicit in harassment of a female colleague via threatening text messages. But there was tolerance of his misbehaviour.
Using
#Ahmadis
, our most persecuted minority, as scapegoat to score political points does not only prove PMLN's Mian Javed Latif is bigoted scum but also someone inciting hate & violence. He is lying in this video.
Imran s/o Shabbir Ahmed & Adam s/o Mohammad Ali, Baloch students from Turbat, studying at Punjab college, Lahore, were picked up by men in civil clothing w/ others in police uniform, at around 4am on Friday. Their whereabouts remain unknown.
#endenforceddisappearances
Col. Retd Inam-ur-Raheem, one of the most outspoken defenders of rights of the forcibly disappeared and their families seems to have been forcibly disappeared himself from his house in Pindi last night. His whereabouts remain unknown to his family.
This is
@MaryamNSharif
w/ Baloch students in Lahore & in Balochistan w/ families of the disappeared. Please use your position/influence to ensure Baloch students are not harassed by law enforcement & Intel agencies in Punjab.
#ReleaseBebagrImdad
#StopharassingBalochstudents
The courageous
@taliakhattak
on enforced disappearance & the grossly unfair trial of her father rights defender IdrisKhattak by the military court. Says his lawyers hasn't been handed over charge sheet yet.
#releaseidriskhattak
Brazen censorship by current govt to block
@FactFocusFF
website. Can't access it via either of my networks. FF published 2 critical stories this week, including the recent on the wealth amassed by outgoing COAS Bajwa. What does the current civ-mil establishment have to hide?
General Musharraf sold Pakistanis to the US for
#waronterror
. 20 yrs on families of those disappeared have never even got to visit them in a Pk detention centre let alone know if they where sick, dead or alive. How dare Musharraf gets to return & die here?
.
@Gulalai_Ismail
's father human rights defender Prof. Ismail was picked up o/side Peshawar High Court early evening. His whereabouts were unknown for a few hrs, but now confirmed that he is in custody of Cyber Crime Wing of FIA. His lawyers do not know what he has been charged w/
Dr Shireen Mazari was definitely not forcibly disappeared. The authorities ie ISB police admitted to taking her into custody. CM Punjab ordered her release from custody. She was also brought to the court in less than 24hrs.
Mrs Saira told me
@Aliwazirna50
does not have C19 and is in good health, if anything happens to him in custody then state is responsible. She says his exact whereabouts must be disclosed; says taking him to Karachi & lack of transparency around this fake case is a cruel tactic.
These 2 young men in the photo above are claiming to be part of the lynch mob which complained against the SL manager of Rajco & then dragged him out to burn him to death, and are using Tehreek Labbaik's violence inciting narrative to justify why they did it. Speechless.
#Sialkot
Another Ahmadi worship place vandalised in Drigh Road area of Shah Faisal Colony, Karachi. Across Pakistan, attacks on Ahmadi worship sites are being carried out via a planned/coordinated campaign & yet provincial/fed govts are indifferent.
Images/video via community press ofc.
Just spoke to
@Gulalai_Ismail
who is released now. She was in custody for about 40hrs, but not informed of reasons of her arrest. When she was taken out of the G7 station, she thought she will *go missing*. For hrs she was kept in a police van parked at Aabpara police station.
“We are also deeply concerned about the fate of Gulalai Ismail. Her whereabouts must be established immediately. The charges against her are an outrage. She has merely exercised her rights to peaceful freedom of assembly and expression. No harm must come of her,” said
@Rabail26
Seeing photos of PTI's protest in Lahore, & thinking of sedition cases slapped on students & progressive activists incld Iqbal Lala, Mashal Khan's father after the 2019 student march. Hoping that ALL Pk citizens who have grievances can always assemble on the roads w/o reprisals.
Does this look like peaceful political expression or assembly to anyone? Can spot an injured policeman in this video at the beginning.
#ZamanPark
#Lahore
Shireen Mazari was taken into custody on camera/record by LEAs & not abducted. Arrest could be arbitray if done w/o due process/warrant/FIR, but def not an abduction. Calling such arrests abductions undermines what happens to victims of enforced disappearance/state abductions.
Kya Hum Aap Kay Saath Nahi Hain? - Iconic video of TLP's handlers & creator of project Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan in 2017 distributing 💰 to the group's protestors during Faizabad sit-in. Every time someone chants TLP's call for murder, we must
#neverforget
this face.
#blasphemy
Pakistani author/columnist
@mohammedhanif
boycotts
@goetheinstitut
conference, where he was to speak this month in Hamburg, as they had disinvited Palestinian poet
@m7mdkurd
from the event. Artist Moshtari Hilal & essayist Sinthujan Varatharajah have also pulled out of the event.
Withdrawing from
@goerheinstut
’s Hamburg conference where they first invited and then disinvited Palestinian journalist and poet Mohammed El Kurd. Reason is even more offensive. Apparently Kurd is not respectful enough towards Israel. How do you say bugger off in German? 1/3
Ramzan in Pakistan: Peaceful PTM protesters killed in NWA. Then more protesters including sr citizens baton charged & arrested in Hayatabad a bit before Iftar. These protesters were fasting & tbh Iftar photos they've been posting every day from the sit-in were life-affirming.
A former
#Ahmadi
man, Tahir Ahmed was killed in the Peshawar session court today. He was facing
#blasphemy
charges. Initial reports say the targeted man suffered from mental health problems.
#Pakistan
This is huge - Supreme Court of Pakistan orders KP's provincial govt to submit list of internment centers and data of detainees by tomorrow 11:30 am. Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has traced "missing persons" to these centers aka 'Pakistan's Guantanamo camps'.
No PM-elect Shehbaz Sharif ensuring that all Pakistani children, especially those from low-income households have access to education, is not sadqa jaria. It is your job to make sure they get free education.
In solidarity w/
@GulBukhari
who has faced vile abuse on social media for years, was arbitrarily detained in June & now a horrid smear video implying she is antistate is being whatsapped by those who are scared of free speech & expression in
#Pakistan
.
#Journalismisnotacrime
#FoE
So my criticism of government has resulted in a video campaign on WhatsApp groups against me, calling my criticism anti-Pakistan.
Dissent is patriotic. And I will continue to dissent & criticise. Difference of opinion does not make you more Pakistani or patriotic than I.
Just spoke to
@Gulalai_Ismail
's sister. She does not know where Gulalai is held during detention either. First, this system of repression leads to
#humanrightsdefenders
' arrests for peaceful protest and then families, friends and lawyer not given access.
#releasePTMactivists
The Baloch women rights defenders of
@BalochYakjehtiC
& families of the disappeared are showing Islamabad & Lahore what a people's movement looks like. No one bought their allegiance to go to Quetta or to gather in districts across Balochistan.
Right after Mumtaz Qadri's execution an Ahmadi man was target killed in Kot Abdul Malik that week. Day after Khadim Rizvi's death, there is an attack on Ahmadis and a young doctor lost his life to the brutal fascism of majoritarian extremists.
RIP Dr Tahir Ahmad. Allah Yerhamo.
Pakistan bloodbath update: Pastor William Siraj (L) an assistant priest of Church of Pakistan, Peshawar Diocese, shot dead this afternoon in Peshawar. Rev Patrick Naeem (R) survived the targeted killing attempt. -- 2022 started with a heinous hate attack on Pakistani Christians.
Baloch youth Shahbaig, was forcibly taken off the Turbat-quetta bus earlier today, a way of disappearing Baloch men. But the people's protest & resistance worked, Shahbaig was handed over to police & released. Almost unprecedented. Wow! ✊🏾
Pics
@Baluch_SM
#Enforceddisappearances
Advocate Shafiq Ahmad Awan of Okara appears to have been forcibly disappeared from near his house on Dec 10, around 5 pm. His whereabouts remain unknown to his family. Previously, Shafiq was picked up for about ten hours on June 24 from near his home & was released in Pattaoki.
Dear
@Jack
&
@Twitter
this man & his party are campaigners of hate, they are inciting violence against the most marginalised Pakistanis, the govt, judiciary & are engaged in violent protests across Pakistan at the moment. Suspend their accounts, do not let them cause more harm.
Trolled my father by sending him a *GHABRANA NAHI HAI NAYE PAKISTANIO!* msg. Do not want to troll or laugh at my bechara younger brother and cousins who worship IK. Should bother Ammi though, she called me a lifafa foran after election.
Terrible news coming out of
#Pakistan
about Pashtun
#humanrightsdefender
Arman Lunri's death. Arman is Wranga Lunri's brother. Their family had to move cities in 2018 due to threats against them for their political dissent &
#PTM
support. So so tragic.
Thanks very much
@mjdawar
. Hayat should never have been arbitrarily detained or arrested. He was put behind bars to set an example for all dissidents who criticize policies of security state online. Let's all work towards getting Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act fixed.
Islamabad High Court has finally ordered to release
#HayatPreghal
on Bail. We are extremely thankful to
@amnesty
@Rabail26
and all other friends who have supported us in his case.
Watching
#ManzoorPashteen
's electric speech from Sri Lanka on FB & can only imagine how amazing it must be to hear him speak after hrs of waiting. It is already May 14 here. Dear Pakistani *establishment* -whoever you are- thanks v.much for taking this rally into another day.
Update on Pakistani state's relentless war against its human rights activists: Police case filed against
@Gulalai_Ismail
u/ sections 6 & 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act. She has only recently been removed from the no-fly list after 6 months.
#Pashtun
#Pakistan
#PTM
#humanrightsdefenders
23 Pakistani human rights defenders sent on judicial remand for 14 days are prisoners of conscience, & must be immediately/unconditionally released. Peaceful assembly is neither unlawful nor a riot. PROTEST IS A RIGHT NOT A CRIME.
Cc
@ImranKhanPTI
#releasealislamabadprotesters
They have all been sent to Adiala Jail. More power to each one of us and our fight. We will not back down. Keep bringing your sedition charges and your intimidation tactics!
#shame
#ReleaseIslamabadProtestors
.
@ImranKhanPTI
can you please act responsibly for once and do your job? A member of parliament has been forcibly detained in a false case. There is ZERO transparency in how the state operates with regards to rights defenders and dissidents during your tenure.
#releaseAliWazir
Ammar has immense class/ethnic privilege. He was arrested from his house in DHA. There is visual evidence of arrest, family/comrades/lawyers have access. Yet he was arrested in a false case. I shudder to think how the security state treats the Baloch & Pashtuns.
#ReleaseAmmarJan
If you think this is a gang of robbers or monsters breaking into someone's house, you your mistaken. This is the police breaking into
#AmmarJan
's house.
Shameless!
#ReleaseAmmarJan
Military generals made disastrous strategic calls at the cost of Pakistanis. Protest movements/political workers who questioned such policies are repressed for demanding accountability/peace. Wardi is literally why we have dehshat gardi here.
Sedition FIR ag/
@ManzoorPashteen
👇🏽
Fatima's father Muhammad Osaid was disappeared from Gulberg, Lahore on Feb 26. Her brother Sauleh is 4. They had to move out of their house in Lahore because no one could pay the rent. Sauleh cannot go to school as there is no breadwinner to pay the fee.
#enforceddisappearances
Where is the *genius* who thought of further weaponizing clerics from smalltime sectarian barelvi groups and ensured they register as a political party to bring down the then democratically elected govt?
#whocultivatedTLP
Getting reports about four Baloch women getting forcibly picked up from diff parts of Awaran. Women: Sakina, Sayad Bibi, Nazal, Hameeda. --- Sakina (left) was forced into displacement due to conflict previously.
Reported Amir Liaquat's account to
@Twitter
. Not that I have high hopes from its (faulty) reporting mechanism but had to try. His malicious tweets at
@ImaanZHazir
are not merely offensive but dangerous.
This guy is a known inciter of hatred
@Jack
. Throw him out of here.
Relieved to know that
@Gulalai_Ismail
is released on her own recognizance in
#PTM
Swabi Jalsa case. But her name is still on Exit Control List & passport confiscated by FIA. Pak authorities must end this continuous intimidation of
#humanrighstdefenders
.
After the Lahore blast, at least four Pashtun men appear to have been forcibly disappeared from the city from Jan22-26. 2 men are from Quetta, 2 from Pishin, Balochistan. Names: AbdulShafiq (L), 24, Naqeebullah (R), 26, Hafeezullah, 55, Qassam Khan.
PTI's Usman Dar does not acknowledge that the party's Sialkot Jalsa was going to be forcibly held on CTI ground, a Presbyterian church owned property. -- Sure do your jalsa but not by trampling on the rights of Christian residents.
Extreme cruelty.
@anwaar_kakar
's caretaker administration did not have the mandate to expel refugees, and is now also deporting Pk Pashtuns who are from KP/tribal areas. 19yro Anas, born in Hyderabad, s/o Muhammad Rauf of SouthWaziristan, forcibly deported to Afghanistan.
Muhammad Rauf, a Pakistani citizen, is waiting outside detention center since last night & today he received a call from his son Anas,who were calling from the Chaman border stating that the Pakistani authorities are deporting him to Afghanistan.
#AfghanRefugees
@anwaar_kakar
If you are in
#Islamabad
or
#Lahore
today, please go to the PTM protests against Pashtun human rights defender Arman Lunri's murder, ISB o/side press club at 3pm, LHR at Liberty roundabout at 4pm.
#armanluni
#armanloni
Today AC Islamabad & police raided/sealed AQS private gallery & barred
@dohrpk
from launching their film/story book on
#enforceddisappearances
at the gallery premise as planned, calling it an *anti state activity*. The launch was in collab w/ Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.
17 days since Suleman Farooq Chauhdry, 27yo CSS candidate from ISB was forcibly disappeared from Bahria Town Phase 3 on Oct 4. His mother sits on the prayer mat and cries for her son to return every day. Last night she went to the terrace of her house at 1:30 am looking for him.
Six days since Shafiq Ahmad Awan, dissident lawyer from Okara was disappeared. His whereabouts and fate remain unknown to his family. Police has not registered his FIR yet.
#whereisadvshafiq
Advocate Shafiq Ahmad Awan of Okara appears to have been forcibly disappeared from near his house on Dec 10, around 5 pm. His whereabouts remain unknown to his family. Previously, Shafiq was picked up for about ten hours on June 24 from near his home & was released in Pattaoki.
Dr Deen Muhammad, a political dissident was forcibly disappeared on June 28, 2009 from Urnach, Balochistan. 10 yrs since he was forcibly separated from his wife and three children. His daughter
@SammiBaluch
was 12 & in class 5 when her father was picked up.
#enforceddisappearance
Someday we must talk about how class privilege plays a part in whose arrest/detention gets most condemnations on social media, and how it plays a role in creating more confusion around facts.
#thinkingoutloud
Academic, historian & dear friend Ammar Ali Jan is facing a dangerous defamation campaign by Islami Jamiat Talba for supporting & speaking to Pashtun students at Punjab Uni about peaceful resistance. They are calling him *anti-state & Indian agent.*
This December, it has been a year since Junaid Hafeez was sentenced to death for blasphemy via Facebook. And for 7.5 years Hafeez has been languishing in prison for a crime he never committed.
#freejunaidhafeez
#repealblasphemylaw
One month, three days since
#HafeezBaloch
, student of QAU in Islamabad was forcibly disappeared from Khuzdar, Balochistan. Baloch students says Hafeez was u/ surveillance & getting harassed prior to his disappearance.
#StopharassingBalochstudents
#ReleaseHafeezBaloch
A group called Hum Awam Pakistan, carrying a banner with COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa and DG ISI Faiz Hameed shows up at Mall Road right when
@mjdawar
arrives for his address to
#PeoplesSolidarityMarch
.
Within 2 weeks of a Christian man's lynching, two Ahmadi men, Ghulam Sarwar & Rahat Ahmad Bajwa killed in Saadullah Pur, Mandi Bahauddin in separate attacks. The killings are faith-based per Ahmadiyya community. A teenager has confessed to murdering victims for their religion.