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Jul 15, 2020 3 tweets 2 min read Read on X
In this interview from last year, @ManzoorPashteen explained why the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement's slogans seemed harsh. "The truth is bitter," he said, & PTM's slogans didn't even fully convey the magnitude of anger felt by people at the grassroots. Source:
If you want to know why #PTM has been so viciously persecuted, watch this. @ManzoorPashteen calls out the army's gaslighting, and psychological manipulation via the media, & says that it isn't PTM but the army which brainwashes people. In KP, reality has undone this brainwashing.
Manzoor Pashteen said that in KP they were in constant psychological turmoil because they could see and hear stories of suffering but weren't allowed to express their pain. They were only permitted to say what powerful quarters in Pakistan wanted them to say.

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English translation of enclosed letter (as it should be widely read):

Open Letter to General Qamar Javed Bajwa
July 4, 2021, Karachi Central Jail
History will absolve me!

After 7 months of imprisonment, I was released temporarily to attend the budget session of parliament. (1)
Meanwhile, I came to know through social media that you told members of parliament during the in-camera briefing on “National Security” that if I apologized to you, then I would be released! (2)
Isn't it a blatant violation of the constitution that you are the head of an institution that is subordinate to a government ministry, that receives salaries from citizens’ taxes and the national treasury, and yet it not only interferes in political and judicial matters... (3)
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What's even more vile is potentially covering for the suspected killers & saying that the investigation is a "sensitive matter" whose details couldn't be disclosed. Tahir Dawar's son, @AmjidDawar, called for an international inquiry as the govt wasn't pursuing the investigation.
When he first disappeared, the details of which @AzazSyed shared in his column below, a PTI spokesman said that it was fake news & that he'd soon return safely: .

His body was later found with torture marks in Afghanistan close to a Pakistani check-post.
According to Azaz Syed's story, Tahir Dawar had arrested militants transporting ammunition to Afghanistan. He resisted pressure "from above" to release them, though his senior officer eventually did.
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Not only did ISI tell Justice Qazi Faez Isa that it didn't have the mandate to investigate TLP's finances (when it has assumed the mandate for literally everything else) but Chief Justice Nisar delayed the hearing for 5 months enabling TLP's electoral rise. All roads lead to GHQ.
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Mujibur Rehman's 7th March 1971 speech with English subtitles. (1)
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