Salman Rushdie S Attack Was Unwarranted Says Pakistan S Imran Khan Imran Khan

Khan also said he expected Afghan women to “claim their rights” in the face of Taliban restrictions in an interview with the Guardian in which he sought to play down his reputation as a firefighter. He is fighting for his political survival after being ousted in April. Khan says his staff and followers are being harassed and intimidated, and that he has been fighting an eight-year battle with illegal campaign finance charges that could see him banned from politics. Ten years ago, Khan walked out of an event in India because Rushdie was to appear and the two men exchanged insults, but Khan does not appear to have expressed support for violent action against the Indian-born author. His complaint about the attack is striking, however, in an area where most politicians do not comment at all. Asked about his response to the knife attack in upstate New York that left Rushdie critically injured, Khan said: “I think it’s terrible, it’s sad. “Rushdi understood because he came from a Muslim family. He knows the love, the respect, the reverence of a prophet who lives in our hearts. He knew that,” Khan said. “So I understand the anger, but you can’t justify what happened.”

“The Afghan people will claim their rights”

A year ago, Khan caused consternation in the West and many Afghans when he welcomed the Taliban’s seizure of power, saying it had “broken the chains of slavery”. He defended the Taliban’s treatment of women and girls, describing it as a local “cultural norm” and noting: “Each society’s idea of ​​human rights and women’s rights is different.” A year on, women remain excluded from the Afghan workforce and girls over 14 are still banned from school. However, Khan insisted that change had to come from within Afghanistan. “Eventually the Afghan women, the Afghan people, will claim their rights. They are strong people,” he said. “But if you push the Taliban from the outside, knowing their mentality, they will just put up defenses. They just hate outside interference.” Since losing a no-confidence vote in April, Khan has said his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been the target of efforts by the new government and security forces to push it out of politics. . A top aide, Shahbaz Gill, was arrested on Tuesday and hospitalized while in custody. Khan said he was beaten and “psychologically broken”. Islamabad police said Gill was arrested for public incitement against state institutions and “inciting the people to riot”. Khan said Gill was targeted because he had said that army officers should not obey illegal orders. “They are forcing him to say that I was the one who told him to say that,” the former prime minister said. A medical report on Gill said he had arrived at the hospital with rapid breathing, noting that he had asthma. He also referred to “body aches” and “soft tissue tenderness” in his arm, lower back and buttocks. It was reported late Thursday that he had been released from the hospital and was back in custody. The TV channel that interviewed Gill before his arrest, ARY, has been shut down in some parts of the country. Khan said that Gill’s arrest and the closure of ARY was part of a pattern under the current government of Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced Khan as prime minister. “What they’re doing to Gill is sending a message to everybody,” he said. “And they have scared our workers. Social media activists have come together and we have a very vibrant social media. They are trying to intimidate people.” Pakistan also had a poor human rights record during Khan’s tenure from 2018 to April this year, with extrajudicial killings of dissidents and frequent threats against journalists, especially female reporters who faced a spate of sexual abuse on social media. Khan blamed the excesses and disappearances on security forces’ counterinsurgency tactics. “They were responsible for collecting people, but according to them they were involved in this insurgency, which was going on in Balochistan and the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. So they would blame it, with some justification, because you wouldn’t be able to convict terrorists in the courts because you wouldn’t find witnesses,” Khan said. “In my time, we never tried to suppress the media. The only problem was that sometimes the… security services – three or four times we found out that they picked someone up and as soon as we found out we would immediately release them,” he said. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused security forces of human rights abuses during his reign. Photo: Saiyna Bashir/Reuters Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the litany of abuses under Khan’s government was “endless”. But he added that there is a new campaign to intimidate critical journalists. “Harassment of journalists has not stopped since Khan was replaced by Sharif as prime minister – quite the opposite,” RSF said in a statement. Khan is also facing a case against the PTI by the country’s election commission for illegal foreign campaign contributions. He did not deny the allegations but dismissed the case as politically motivated, saying rival parties such as Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had not faced similar scrutiny. One of PTI’s founding members, Akbar Babar, filed a lawsuit against the party in November 2014, alleging irregularities in the handling of about $3 million in foreign funding. Last month the Election Commission of Pakistan ruled that the PTI had received prohibited funding. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been tasked to probe further and the commission summoned Khan on Tuesday. Experts say Khan could be barred from politics or his party banned if the charges are proven. Khan accused Washington of creating the no-confidence vote that brought down his government, implying that the US had helped persuade members of his party to defect. He also blamed Pakistan’s military, which has long acted as kingmaker in the country’s political life. He was more cautious about blaming the security forces in his interview with the Guardian, but said: “If they were not behind the plot, they certainly could have stopped it because the intelligence agencies, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] and MI [Military Intelligence]they are world-class intelligence services and would surely know what was going on.”

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Khan also said he expected Afghan women to “claim their rights” in the face of Taliban restrictions in an interview with the Guardian in which he sought to play down his reputation as a firefighter. He is fighting for his political survival after being ousted in April. Khan says his staff and followers are being harassed and intimidated, and that he has been fighting an eight-year battle with illegal campaign finance charges that could see him banned from politics. Ten years ago, Khan walked out of an event in India because Rushdie was to appear and the two men exchanged insults, but Khan does not appear to have expressed support for violent action against the Indian-born author. His complaint about the attack is striking, however, in an area where most politicians do not comment at all. Asked about his response to the knife attack in upstate New York that left Rushdie critically injured, Khan said: “I think it’s terrible, it’s sad. “Rushdi understood because he came from a Muslim family. He knows the love, the respect, the reverence of a prophet who lives in our hearts. He knew that,” Khan said. “So I understand the anger, but you can’t justify what happened.”

“The Afghan people will claim their rights”

A year ago, Khan caused consternation in the West and many Afghans when he welcomed the Taliban’s seizure of power, saying it had “broken the chains of slavery”. He defended the Taliban’s treatment of women and girls, describing it as a local “cultural norm” and noting: “Each society’s idea of ​​human rights and women’s rights is different.” A year on, women remain excluded from the Afghan workforce and girls over 14 are still banned from school. However, Khan insisted that change had to come from within Afghanistan. “Eventually the Afghan women, the Afghan people, will claim their rights. They are strong people,” he said. “But if you push the Taliban from the outside, knowing their mentality, they will just put up defenses. They just hate outside interference.” Since losing a no-confidence vote in April, Khan has said his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been the target of efforts by the new government and security forces to push it out of politics. . A top aide, Shahbaz Gill, was arrested on Tuesday and hospitalized while in custody. Khan said he was beaten and “psychologically broken”. Islamabad police said Gill was arrested for public incitement against state institutions and “inciting the people to riot”. Khan said Gill was targeted because he had said that army officers should not obey illegal orders. “They are forcing him to say that I was the one who told him to say that,” the former prime minister said. A medical report on Gill said he had arrived at the hospital with rapid breathing, noting that he had asthma. He also referred to “body aches” and “soft tissue tenderness” in his arm, lower back and buttocks. It was reported late Thursday that he had been released from the hospital and was back in custody. The TV channel that interviewed Gill before his arrest, ARY, has been shut down in some parts of the country. Khan said that Gill’s arrest and the closure of ARY was part of a pattern under the current government of Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced Khan as prime minister. “What they’re doing to Gill is sending a message to everybody,” he said. “And they have scared our workers. Social media activists have come together and we have a very vibrant social media. They are trying to intimidate people.” Pakistan also had a poor human rights record during Khan’s tenure from 2018 to April this year, with extrajudicial killings of dissidents and frequent threats against journalists, especially female reporters who faced a spate of sexual abuse on social media. Khan blamed the excesses and disappearances on security forces’ counterinsurgency tactics. “They were responsible for collecting people, but according to them they were involved in this insurgency, which was going on in Balochistan and the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. So they would blame it, with some justification, because you wouldn’t be able to convict terrorists in the courts because you wouldn’t find witnesses,” Khan said. “In my time, we never tried to suppress the media. The only problem was that sometimes the… security services – three or four times we found out that they picked someone up and as soon as we found out we would immediately release them,” he said. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused security forces of human rights abuses during his reign. Photo: Saiyna Bashir/Reuters Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the litany of abuses under Khan’s government was “endless”. But he added that there is a new campaign to intimidate critical journalists. “Harassment of journalists has not stopped since Khan was replaced by Sharif as prime minister – quite the opposite,” RSF said in a statement. Khan is also facing a case against the PTI by the country’s election commission for illegal foreign campaign contributions. He did not deny the allegations but dismissed the case as politically motivated, saying rival parties such as Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had not faced similar scrutiny. One of PTI’s founding members, Akbar Babar, filed a lawsuit against the party in November 2014, alleging irregularities in the handling of about $3 million in foreign funding. Last month the Election Commission of Pakistan ruled that the PTI had received prohibited funding. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been tasked to probe further and the commission summoned Khan on Tuesday. Experts say Khan could be barred from politics or his party banned if the charges are proven. Khan accused Washington of creating the no-confidence vote that brought down his government, implying that the US had helped persuade members of his party to defect. He also blamed Pakistan’s military, which has long acted as kingmaker in the country’s political life. He was more cautious about blaming the security forces in his interview with the Guardian, but said: “If they were not behind the plot, they certainly could have stopped it because the intelligence agencies, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] and MI [Military Intelligence]they are world-class intelligence services and would surely know what was going on.”

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Khan also said he expected Afghan women to “claim their rights” in the face of Taliban restrictions in an interview with the Guardian in which he sought to play down his reputation as a firefighter. He is fighting for his political survival after being ousted in April. Khan says his staff and followers are being harassed and intimidated, and that he has been fighting an eight-year battle with illegal campaign finance charges that could see him banned from politics. Ten years ago, Khan walked out of an event in India because Rushdie was to appear and the two men exchanged insults, but Khan does not appear to have expressed support for violent action against the Indian-born author. His complaint about the attack is striking, however, in an area where most politicians do not comment at all. Asked about his response to the knife attack in upstate New York that left Rushdie critically injured, Khan said: “I think it’s terrible, it’s sad. “Rushdi understood because he came from a Muslim family. He knows the love, the respect, the reverence of a prophet who lives in our hearts. He knew that,” Khan said. “So I understand the anger, but you can’t justify what happened.”

“The Afghan people will claim their rights”

A year ago, Khan caused consternation in the West and many Afghans when he welcomed the Taliban’s seizure of power, saying it had “broken the chains of slavery”. He defended the Taliban’s treatment of women and girls, describing it as a local “cultural norm” and noting: “Each society’s idea of ​​human rights and women’s rights is different.” A year on, women remain excluded from the Afghan workforce and girls over 14 are still banned from school. However, Khan insisted that change had to come from within Afghanistan. “Eventually the Afghan women, the Afghan people, will claim their rights. They are strong people,” he said. “But if you push the Taliban from the outside, knowing their mentality, they will just put up defenses. They just hate outside interference.” Since losing a no-confidence vote in April, Khan has said his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been the target of efforts by the new government and security forces to push it out of politics. . A top aide, Shahbaz Gill, was arrested on Tuesday and hospitalized while in custody. Khan said he was beaten and “psychologically broken”. Islamabad police said Gill was arrested for public incitement against state institutions and “inciting the people to riot”. Khan said Gill was targeted because he had said that army officers should not obey illegal orders. “They are forcing him to say that I was the one who told him to say that,” the former prime minister said. A medical report on Gill said he had arrived at the hospital with rapid breathing, noting that he had asthma. He also referred to “body aches” and “soft tissue tenderness” in his arm, lower back and buttocks. It was reported late Thursday that he had been released from the hospital and was back in custody. The TV channel that interviewed Gill before his arrest, ARY, has been shut down in some parts of the country. Khan said that Gill’s arrest and the closure of ARY was part of a pattern under the current government of Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced Khan as prime minister. “What they’re doing to Gill is sending a message to everybody,” he said. “And they have scared our workers. Social media activists have come together and we have a very vibrant social media. They are trying to intimidate people.” Pakistan also had a poor human rights record during Khan’s tenure from 2018 to April this year, with extrajudicial killings of dissidents and frequent threats against journalists, especially female reporters who faced a spate of sexual abuse on social media. Khan blamed the excesses and disappearances on security forces’ counterinsurgency tactics. “They were responsible for collecting people, but according to them they were involved in this insurgency, which was going on in Balochistan and the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. So they would blame it, with some justification, because you wouldn’t be able to convict terrorists in the courts because you wouldn’t find witnesses,” Khan said. “In my time, we never tried to suppress the media. The only problem was that sometimes the… security services – three or four times we found out that they picked someone up and as soon as we found out we would immediately release them,” he said. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused security forces of human rights abuses during his reign. Photo: Saiyna Bashir/Reuters Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the litany of abuses under Khan’s government was “endless”. But he added that there is a new campaign to intimidate critical journalists. “Harassment of journalists has not stopped since Khan was replaced by Sharif as prime minister – quite the opposite,” RSF said in a statement. Khan is also facing a case against the PTI by the country’s election commission for illegal foreign campaign contributions. He did not deny the allegations but dismissed the case as politically motivated, saying rival parties such as Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had not faced similar scrutiny. One of PTI’s founding members, Akbar Babar, filed a lawsuit against the party in November 2014, alleging irregularities in the handling of about $3 million in foreign funding. Last month the Election Commission of Pakistan ruled that the PTI had received prohibited funding. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been tasked to probe further and the commission summoned Khan on Tuesday. Experts say Khan could be barred from politics or his party banned if the charges are proven. Khan accused Washington of creating the no-confidence vote that brought down his government, implying that the US had helped persuade members of his party to defect. He also blamed Pakistan’s military, which has long acted as kingmaker in the country’s political life. He was more cautious about blaming the security forces in his interview with the Guardian, but said: “If they were not behind the plot, they certainly could have stopped it because the intelligence agencies, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] and MI [Military Intelligence]they are world-class intelligence services and would surely know what was going on.”

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Khan also said he expected Afghan women to “claim their rights” in the face of Taliban restrictions in an interview with the Guardian in which he sought to play down his reputation as a firefighter. He is fighting for his political survival after being ousted in April. Khan says his staff and followers are being harassed and intimidated, and that he has been fighting an eight-year battle with illegal campaign finance charges that could see him banned from politics. Ten years ago, Khan walked out of an event in India because Rushdie was to appear and the two men exchanged insults, but Khan does not appear to have expressed support for violent action against the Indian-born author. His complaint about the attack is striking, however, in an area where most politicians do not comment at all. Asked about his response to the knife attack in upstate New York that left Rushdie critically injured, Khan said: “I think it’s terrible, it’s sad. “Rushdi understood because he came from a Muslim family. He knows the love, the respect, the reverence of a prophet who lives in our hearts. He knew that,” Khan said. “So I understand the anger, but you can’t justify what happened.”

“The Afghan people will claim their rights”

A year ago, Khan caused consternation in the West and many Afghans when he welcomed the Taliban’s seizure of power, saying it had “broken the chains of slavery”. He defended the Taliban’s treatment of women and girls, describing it as a local “cultural norm” and noting: “Each society’s idea of ​​human rights and women’s rights is different.” A year on, women remain excluded from the Afghan workforce and girls over 14 are still banned from school. However, Khan insisted that change had to come from within Afghanistan. “Eventually the Afghan women, the Afghan people, will claim their rights. They are strong people,” he said. “But if you push the Taliban from the outside, knowing their mentality, they will just put up defenses. They just hate outside interference.” Since losing a no-confidence vote in April, Khan has said his party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been the target of efforts by the new government and security forces to push it out of politics. . A top aide, Shahbaz Gill, was arrested on Tuesday and hospitalized while in custody. Khan said he was beaten and “psychologically broken”. Islamabad police said Gill was arrested for public incitement against state institutions and “inciting the people to riot”. Khan said Gill was targeted because he had said that army officers should not obey illegal orders. “They are forcing him to say that I was the one who told him to say that,” the former prime minister said. A medical report on Gill said he had arrived at the hospital with rapid breathing, noting that he had asthma. He also referred to “body aches” and “soft tissue tenderness” in his arm, lower back and buttocks. It was reported late Thursday that he had been released from the hospital and was back in custody. The TV channel that interviewed Gill before his arrest, ARY, has been shut down in some parts of the country. Khan said that Gill’s arrest and the closure of ARY was part of a pattern under the current government of Shehbaz Sharif, who replaced Khan as prime minister. “What they’re doing to Gill is sending a message to everybody,” he said. “And they have scared our workers. Social media activists have come together and we have a very vibrant social media. They are trying to intimidate people.” Pakistan also had a poor human rights record during Khan’s tenure from 2018 to April this year, with extrajudicial killings of dissidents and frequent threats against journalists, especially female reporters who faced a spate of sexual abuse on social media. Khan blamed the excesses and disappearances on security forces’ counterinsurgency tactics. “They were responsible for collecting people, but according to them they were involved in this insurgency, which was going on in Balochistan and the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. So they would blame it, with some justification, because you wouldn’t be able to convict terrorists in the courts because you wouldn’t find witnesses,” Khan said. “In my time, we never tried to suppress the media. The only problem was that sometimes the… security services – three or four times we found out that they picked someone up and as soon as we found out we would immediately release them,” he said. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused security forces of human rights abuses during his reign. Photo: Saiyna Bashir/Reuters Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the litany of abuses under Khan’s government was “endless”. But he added that there is a new campaign to intimidate critical journalists. “Harassment of journalists has not stopped since Khan was replaced by Sharif as prime minister – quite the opposite,” RSF said in a statement. Khan is also facing a case against the PTI by the country’s election commission for illegal foreign campaign contributions. He did not deny the allegations but dismissed the case as politically motivated, saying rival parties such as Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had not faced similar scrutiny. One of PTI’s founding members, Akbar Babar, filed a lawsuit against the party in November 2014, alleging irregularities in the handling of about $3 million in foreign funding. Last month the Election Commission of Pakistan ruled that the PTI had received prohibited funding. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been tasked to probe further and the commission summoned Khan on Tuesday. Experts say Khan could be barred from politics or his party banned if the charges are proven. Khan accused Washington of creating the no-confidence vote that brought down his government, implying that the US had helped persuade members of his party to defect. He also blamed Pakistan’s military, which has long acted as kingmaker in the country’s political life. He was more cautious about blaming the security forces in his interview with the Guardian, but said: “If they were not behind the plot, they certainly could have stopped it because the intelligence agencies, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] and MI [Military Intelligence]they are world-class intelligence services and would surely know what was going on.”