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BREAKING: US Congress escalates pressure on Asim Munir regime
44 US Congressmembers write to @SecRubio on Pakistan's "escalating crisis of authoritarianism"
They call for targeted sanctions in response to "Asim Munir’s central role in driving Pakistan’s crackdown on dissent"
The time to act is now.
Support Senator Markey’s letter calling for Imran Khan’s release and holding Asim Munir accountable. Get your senator to sign on. Every voice matters. Support democracy in Pakistan.
🆕 Historic US Senate letter on Pakistan's human rights crisis
ONE-CLICK — ASK YOUR SENATOR TO SIGN:
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The letter demands:
-freedom for Imran Khan
-sanctions on Asim Munir
-no military aid without democracy
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
🆕 Historic US Senate letter on Pakistan's human rights crisis
ONE-CLICK — ASK YOUR SENATOR TO SIGN:
tinyurl.com/SenateLetterFree…
tinyurl.com/SenateLetterFree…
tinyurl.com/SenateLetterFree…
The letter demands:
-freedom for Imran Khan
-sanctions on Asim Munir
-no military aid without democracy
📢As a Massachusetts constituent, I'm grateful and proud that my senator, @SenMarkey, is leading a Senate letter telling Sec. Rubio: ENOUGH.
The letter calls for the release of Imran Khan and other political prisoners, targeted sanctions against officials responsible for serious human rights abuses, and human rights conditions on U.S. military assistance to Pakistan. It also raises concerns about transnational repression targeting Pakistani Americans and their families.
This is not about interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs. It is about ensuring that U.S. policy does not enable repression, undermine democratic institutions, or provide unconditional support to those responsible for human rights violations.
The future of Pakistan belongs to its people, not to Washington or its military establishment.
Please take 30 seconds to sign @justfp's letter and urge your U.S. senators to join Senator Markey in standing for human rights, democratic freedoms, and accountability. Ask your senator to sign 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
📢As a Massachusetts constituent, I'm grateful and proud that my senator, @SenMarkey, is leading a Senate letter telling Sec. Rubio: ENOUGH.
The letter calls for the release of Imran Khan and other political prisoners, targeted sanctions against officials responsible for serious human rights abuses, and human rights conditions on U.S. military assistance to Pakistan. It also raises concerns about transnational repression targeting Pakistani Americans and their families.
This is not about interfering in Pakistan's internal affairs. It is about ensuring that U.S. policy does not enable repression, undermine democratic institutions, or provide unconditional support to those responsible for human rights violations.
The future of Pakistan belongs to its people, not to Washington or its military establishment.
Please take 30 seconds to sign @justfp's letter and urge your U.S. senators to join Senator Markey in standing for human rights, democratic freedoms, and accountability. Ask your senator to sign 👇
actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
We stand with @CPJAsia in demanding #JusticeForArshadSharif. Journalists cannot be killed without accountability. Pakistan’s authorities must ensure a transparent judicial process, establish the truth, and hold those responsible to account.
#Pakistan: CPJ reiterates its call on Pakistani authorities to ensure justice for journalist Arshad Sharif and accountability for his killing through a transparent judicial process.
#JusticeForArshadSharif
@CMShehbaz, @PakPMO, @AzamNazeerTarar, @MIshaqDar50, @ForeignOfficePk, @PakinKenya
Free Imran Khan! 🇵🇰 Urge your senator to support Senator Markey’s letter calling out Asim Munir by name and demanding Imran Khan’s release. google.com/url?q=https://cli…
🇵🇰 EXCLUSIVE: IMRAN KHAN'S SONS SAY THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO KILL THEIR FATHER!
I spoke again with Qasim and Sulaiman Khan, and this conversation was the most heartbreaking.
Not only is their father, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, still in solitary confinement, but his three courageous sisters, Aleema, Uzma and Noreen, have now also been arrested
And when @PTIofficial supporters hit the streets, many were arrested, beaten, and even killed!
Imran Khan’s sons say they haven't spoken to their father in over 6 months, nobody has seen him for 2 months, and they're increasingly worried about his deteriorating health.
I asked them the hardest question of all: Do they still believe they’ll ever see their father again?
Qasim admitted, he has very little hope, but they will never stop fighting
I told them both I wouldn't give up hope.
And I meant it.
@Kasim_Khan_1999
Everyone who believes in democracy and human rights can make a difference. Senator Markey is championing a major Senate letter that calls out Asim Munir by name and demands the release of Imran Khan, while confronting Pakistan’s escalating human rights crisis.
✍️ Send a letter to your senators and urge them to support this effort: google.com/url?q=https://cli…
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
🇵🇰 #Pakistan: I am deeply concerned by reports that human rights lawyers @ImaanZHazir and @AdvHadiali were denied access to their lawyers and objected to the manner of their presentation during proceedings inside Adiala jail, prompting the defense team to walk out.
Jail trials must not undermine fair trial guarantees, access to counsel or the effective right to defense.
Criminal charges should never be used as punishment for freedom of expression and human rights advocacy. (1/2)
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Pakistan - State of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, imposition of governor rule and the deployment of armed forces
Reports of arbitrary detentions of key leaders – including the provincial chief minister – and internet disruptions across the province raise concerns about the proportionality of these emergency measures. While states may, in strictly limited circumstances, derogate from their human rights obligations to respond to a public emergency that threatens the existence of the nation, emergency measures are not a blank cheque to crack down on human rights, silence dissent, or concentrate power.
Read more: amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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Western media finally reports that US-backed military regime of Asim Munir "opened fire" on pro-democracy protesters seeking freedom for political prisoner Imran Khan
Khan's party easily won the last election before brazen fraud imposed unpopular longtime pro-military puppets
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
🇵🇰 Pakistan police crack down on pro-Khan protest
Police opened fire at a protest in northwest Pakistan, leaving several people injured, as authorities cracked down on supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, a police official and a member of Khan's party said.
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
CORRECTED: Pakistan regime woes compound after desperate efforts to stifle pro-democracy movement, as economy stalls and poverty surges
Jailed Imran Khan's woes compound after Pakistan suspends his provincial government reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
As Pakistan’s government arrests opposition leaders and suspends an elected provincial government, President Trump continues to embrace its military chief.
The United States should stand with the Pakistani people, not enable political repression. We must press for the release of political prisoners, including Imran Khan.
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Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
❗️ SAY IT WITH US: "U.S. foreign policy is not and has never been motivated by human rights or democratic values!"
Glenn Greenwald and Erik Sperling discuss two cases that explode this myth:
"Saudi Arabia tends to be the most prominent example, but Pakistan is such an important one as well."
"We don't even make any pretense about the fact—and, again, this was done under Biden—that you have this incredibly popular leader," Imran Khan, "who was democratically elected."
"And because that will of the Pakistani people didn't serve the American and Israeli vision of that region, we just said, 'Yeah, get rid of him and we'll support this military junta.'"
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
Tonight LIVE at 7 PM ET! @RogerWaters & @MonaMiari on art, politics, and cowards in the music industry. Then, Etan Mabourakh (@etanmab) on Democrats' fecklessness on Iran and Dr. Hussain Nadim (@HNadim87) on repression in Pakistan. youtube.com/live/O_YTexPjzhM
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
📺 TONIGHT: Dr. @HNadim87 joins Katie Halper @kthalps at 7:30 PM ET to discuss the ongoing repression in Pakistan, including emergency rule in KP, police firing on protesters, and what it means for US policy. Tune in! #Pakistan #KPK #GovernorRule #Emergency #KhyberPakhtunkhwa
youtube.com/watch?v=O_YTexPj…
Tonight LIVE at 7 PM ET! @RogerWaters & @MonaMiari on art, politics, and cowards in the music industry. Then, Etan Mabourakh (@etanmab) on Democrats' fecklessness on Iran and Dr. Hussain Nadim (@HNadim87) on repression in Pakistan. youtube.com/live/O_YTexPjzhM
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
🚨🚨 Another new low for Pakistan! The brother of a sitting Chief Minister has filed a habeas corpus petition over the CM’s disappearance. More than three days have passed, and he has yet to be produced before a court.
Under the Field Marshal and his cronies, Pakistan has officially become a nation of “missing persons.”
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Pakistan's US-trained regime reportedly using live fire to put down the historic pro-democracy protests
@State_SCA @CIA @CENTCOM
@NATO @EUatUN must condemn & cut all ties with dictator Asim Munir or be complicit
#SOSPakistan
Horrifying footage appears to show police firing directly at PTI protesters, leaving civilians wounded. Why? Demanding the release of their elected political leader and standing by democracy.
Those responsible for ordering and carrying out this brutality must be held accountable. Relentless bloodshed and fearmongering from Asim Munir’s petrified regime. Scared people often lash out with the most cruel brutality, and that’s what we’re seeing here. A man terrified to lose power, and terrified of his own people’s will.
The world must watch and take action. We absolutely must take a united stand against tyranny and evil.
When a regime fears the will of the people, it resorts to force. Pakistan’s military rulers are dismantling democracy because they cannot win it. Washington must stop providing political cover for this authoritarianism.
In the last province controlled by the ousted former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, Pakistan's US-backed military government has "declared a state of emergency and imposed governor's rule... effectively removing its elected government from power." commondreams.org/news/us-bac…
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
“Amid mass protests calling for his release, Amnesty International has argued that Pakistani authorities have weaponized criminal proceedings to keep Khan out of power and crack down on dissent.
After the emergency measures went into effect this weekend, the internet monitoring organization NetBlocks reported major disruptions to internet service in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Mobile phone networks have reportedly been disrupted, public transit closed, and several roads across the province shut down.”
In the last province controlled by the ousted former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, Pakistan's US-backed military government has "declared a state of emergency and imposed governor's rule... effectively removing its elected government from power." commondreams.org/news/us-bac…
Coalition to Change U.S. Policy on Pakistan (CUSP) retweeted
In the last province controlled by the ousted former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party, Pakistan's US-backed military government has "declared a state of emergency and imposed governor's rule... effectively removing its elected government from power." commondreams.org/news/us-bac…