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Apr 10 • 15 tweets • 14 min read
Massive vilification campaign targeting #Pakistan, the Supreme Court, Parliament, and Armed Forces has been traced to individuals close to ex-PM #ImranKhan's inner circle, including spreading fake story of a #US drone attack on 🇵🇰, meant to bolster Khan's anti-West narrative. /1
A key aide to former PM #ImranKhan is sought by @FIA_Agency for links to a massive anti-#Pakistan campaign in retaliation to decisions by the Supreme Court and Parliament nullifying Khan's illegal actions and ousting him in a historic vote. /2

The intense anti-#Pakistan campaign from inside the country following #ImranKhan's ouster has caught the attention of digital media+cybersecurity experts. Khan's #PTI has run one of the most potent vilification & hate-spewing media ops in 🇵🇰 pol history./3
A court will review a petition today to place former PM #ImranKhan on a no-fly list. Members of his government are already barred from travel without official clearance after the unusual events of last week that jeopardized the business of the state. /4

A sophisticated information operation underway in #Pakistan following #ImranKhan ouster to inflame public sentiments using religion & anti-West mobilization. Objective: Target institutional pillars of State; sustain instability. A decade of disinfo setups should be dismantled./5 ImageImage
🎞️ With a #PTI flag behind him, a pro-#ImranKhan activist burns #Pakistan flag and posts the video, in protest against Parliament voting out Khan Govt after losing Parliamentary majority:/6

#SelfRighteousCult /7

The wave of #PTI-linked social media demonization of #Pakistan's Judiciary, Parliament, and Military shifts to focused attack on Chief of the Army Staff, trending #BajwaTraitor+#BajwaSurrender. Countered by Pakistanis through #BajwaforPakistan /8

A senior military retired officer, known for combative social media content sympathetic to #ImranKhan's #PTI, urges supporters not to target #Pakistan Army chief & state institutions after Khan's ouster. /9

A supporter of ousted ex-PM #ImranKhan's #PTI verbally attacks two opposition politicians at #Ramadan iftar, calling one of them 'lotay'/'turncoat' for ditching Khan. The lawmakers respond to the public shaming by Khan's supporter in kind. /10

#PTI leader, ousted PM #ImranKhan, introduced public shaming as part of a wider project of confrontationalist, verbally violent politics. Tonight, this supporter ended up shaming & altercating with two opposition lawmakers at #Ramadan iftar [Also see ] /11
Digital media analyst @asadbeyg writes this insightful thread into the online campaign targeting #Pakistan Army chief an the military after the ousting of PM #ImranKhan, and the role of incitement of hate & verbal violence in poisoning public discourse/12

#StayStrongBajwa is trended to support #Pakistan Army chief after an online vilification campaign. Former #Balochistan minister @Jan_Achakzai tweets in support of Army & Gen #QamarBajwa's role backing the Constitution, Parliament, & the Supreme Court /13
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Army supports its chief Gen #QamarBajwa in decision to back the Constitution+Parliament+Supreme Court of #Pakistan. Cdrs take note of online campaign to disparage #COAS, who underlines the Army will defend 🇵🇰 "against all internal and external threats under all circumstances."/14 Image
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Apr 11
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Prime Minister @CMShehbaz of #Pakistan. 🇵🇰

Elected with 174 votes with the backing and support of #Pakistan's major political parties @pmln_org @MediaCellPPP @OfficialMqm @MoulanaOfficial Image
#Pakistan's new Prime Minister @CMShehbaz comes with several honors: first to become PM with the support of 🇵🇰's all of the major parties; brother to 🇵🇰's only thrice elected PM; and comes with foreign policy experience, and ties with 🇵🇰's key international partners.
There is no #US conspiracy against the previous #Pakistan government. Prime Minister @CMShehbaz announces calling a meeting with Parliament's national security committee with top civil & military leaders 🇵🇰 & ex-Amb to 🇺🇸 to decide the fate of this manufactured crisis.
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Apr 8
PM #ImranKhan appeared calm, collected, in what likely is his last TV speech in office. He declared #Pakistan is not independent in foreign policy; praised #India+#Russia; called future 🇵🇰 govts "imported," won't recognize them; & invited Pakistanis to challenge them on streets:
The most significant part of PM #ImranKhan's speech is that he underlined his respect for the Judiciary, and that he accepts Supreme Court of #Pakistan verdict overturning his attempt to block the no-confidence vote.
PM #ImranKhan's last TV speech in office is intense & impressive public relations exercise to dilute the most democratic attempt in #Pakistan's modern history to remove a govt from office. The is the jist of the speech.

Quick points from a live #thread:
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Apr 8
Prime Minister #ImranKhan in live TV address: We accept the decision of the Supreme Court of #Pakistan
PM #ImranKhan: I respect the Judiciary but disappointed in the verdict by the Supreme Court of #Pakistan
PM #ImranKhan live on TV repeats claims about a conspiracy; says he can't make the diplomatic cable public but repeats earlier claims: a foreign official knew of no-confidence vote; arrogantly gave orders to our diplomat there will be consequences if Khan survivors!
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Apr 3
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#Pakistan's largest business & trade association rejects #PTIGovernment's policy of targeting the country's trade interests with key partners in the West, and supports Army Chief's policy statement on relations with the #US and the #EU. /1

Federation of #Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry @FPCCI1, in a statement by its president Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, expresses strong support for 🇵🇰's ties with the #US 🇺🇸 and the #EU 🇪🇺. Sheikh says the business community stands with the State. /2
Irfan Iqbal Sheikh, President @FPCCI, says #Pakistan's largest trading partners are #EU & #UK with exports at approximately $15.8 billion per year and the #US at $6.5 billion. "We greatly value these partners," he said. /3
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Apr 2
#Iran becomes the only foreign government so far to come out to openly endorse Prime Minister #ImranKhan's claim about a #US conspiracy to topple him. Tehran's state-run channel suggests that #Pakistan's opposition parties are executing American agenda:
Three weeks ago, #Nasrallah the chief of #Iran's main militant group #Hezbollah, globally designated as a terrorist organization, praised PM #ImranKhan in a TV speech. Pakistani @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL broadcast clips from militant chief's speech.

#Iran's state media is encouraging PM #ImranKhan to take on the West [], which serves no Pakistani interest, while #Tehran is busy negotiating a deal with Western powers that includes economic cooperation.
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Apr 1
Ex #US Special Rep for #Afghanistan Reconciliation @ZalmayKhalilz met #Pakistan Army #COAS Gen #QamarBajwa today and "pledged to play his role for further improvement in 🇺🇸 diplomatic coop with 🇵🇰 at all levels," acc to a military statement. Khalilzad is attending @IsbDialogue.
Army chief #COAS Gen #QamarBajwa takes a clear stand on #Pakistan's vital interests at @IsbDialogue:

"Sadly, #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine is unfortunate" and 🇵🇰 "shares a long and strategic relationship with 🇺🇸 which remains our largest export market."

A day earlier, PM #ImranKhan at @IsbDialogue advised #Pakistan to consider following the example of sanctions-hit #Cuba, addressing Islamabad's policy elite, taking his ideological aversion of the West to a new level:

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