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Apr 29 • 10 tweets • 13 min read
Actions and policies of ousted ex-PM #ImranKhan and his #PTIGovernment have led to arrests, denial of jobs, travel bans, and deportations of Pakistanis from #Turkey #UAE #France #SaudiArabia #China. All in just three years. The latest is Saudi crackdown on pro-Khan Pakistanis. /1
In April, ex-PM #ImranKhan's incitement was responsible for Pakistanis getting radicalized in two countries: #Turkey+#SaudiArabia. 🇹🇷 arrested 27 pro-Khan Pakistanis on Apr 12. 🇸🇦 has repeatedly arrested Khan sympathizers in 2019+2020+2021 & 2022. /2

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In 2020, PM #ImranKhan's followers launched online campaign against #Arab-#Israel peace agreement #AbrahamAccords, radicalizing young Pakistanis in the #Gulf who protested on streets in #UAE & #SaudiArabia, leading to loss of jobs, expulsions, visa bans/3

Two young Pakistanis were involved in violence in #France after PM #ImranKhan launched a concerted political+religious+diplomatic campaign against 🇫🇷 in Sept 2020. The mobilization backfired and destabilized🇵🇰 itself through violent street protests. /4

In 2020, there was chatter inside #GCC that PM #ImranKhan Govt wants to see #Pakistan diaspora in #Gulf -- largest in world -- reduced as part of Khan's alleged plan to downgrade ties due to ideological reasons. "Your PM wants us to expel your people," a journalist told me then/5
Like #Turkey+#SaudiArabia, #Qatar arrested pro-#PTI #Pakistan citizens who heeded ousted PM #ImranKhan's call to fill the streets []. Many will lose jobs, be expelled. @PakinQatar intervened to remind Pakistanis to respect the law/6
Ousted PM #ImranKhan's policies were partially responsible -- if not entirely -- for a #UAE visa ban on #Pakistan labor that lasted more than a year in 2020/21, the first in the half-century of ties between the two allies. /7

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The blunders that ousted ex-PM #ImranKhan committed in foreign policy not only led to the expulsion of Pakistanis from allied states like #KSA #UAE #Turkey for first time, but also created diplomatic space for archrival #India. Here is an examples from the UAE: /8
Radicalization under ousted PM #ImranKhan Govt did not only harm Pakistanis living in #Gulf #France #Turkey but came close home when pro-Khan @ARYNEWSOFFICIAL, owned by a business house launched from #UAE, found itself on the wrong side of its hosts. These tweets were deleted: /9
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Apr 30
The amount of anti-#Pakistan online content generated inside the country, mostly by supporters of a Pakistani political party, has for the first time surpassed similar content produced by troll farms linked to neighboring #India. /1
The quality and sophistication of the anti-#Pakistan content generated from within the country in recent weeks is more sophisticated and powerful than anything similar produced inside #India in recent years. /2
The sophisticated nature of the recent anti-#Pakistan campaign generated inside the country is in many ways at par with military-grade PSYOPS that states mount against each other, targeting key institutions of the country for internal collapse . /3
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Apr 27
April is proving to be a historic month in modern history of #Pakistan. After Supreme Court intervention and Parliament vote that ousted ex-PM for first time in 75 years, 🇵🇰 now has the youngest Foreign Minister in its history: @BBhuttoZardari. /1

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This image, courtesy @PresOfPakistan, is another first for #Pakistan and exemplifies how PM @CMShehbaz is uniting a politically divided 🇵🇰: a @PTIofficial President joins a @pmln_org Prime Minister in administering oath to a @PPP_Org Foreign Minister. /2
History made: Another reason why this April and this Foreign Minister is significant. This illustration shared by Senator @SeharKamran shows @BBhuttoZardari, his mother the late PM 🇵🇰, and his grandfather, ex-PM & ex-FM of #Pakistan, taking oath to serve/3
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Apr 25
Ex-PM #ImranKhan dragged #Cuba into domestic #Pakistan politics by using sanctions on Cuban people as something Pakistanis should look up to. This cynical analogy was unfair to both great nations. One more damage from the previous govt added to PM @CMShehbaz's repair list.
Federal Minister @betterpakistan represents many Pakistanis who believe #Pakistan should not be like #Cuba/#NorthKorea; and is within his rights to respond to the statement by ex-PM #ImranKhan who advised Pakistanis at an international forum to learn to live under sanctions.
#Pakistan and #Cuba enjoy excellent ties. But first the ex-PM dragged Cuba into Pak politics, and when a Minister @betterpakistan responded to the ex-PM, the Ambassador of Cuba apparently indirectly came to ex-PM's defense. This looks like an attempt to meddle in 🇵🇰 politics.
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Apr 22
Just in

#Pakistan's top security forum, the #NSC, attended by top Govt, military, and intelligence officials, chaired by PM @CMShehbaz, concludes there is no "foreign conspiracy" behind ex-PM #ImranKhan's exit from power after he lost parliamentary majority and was voted out. /1
Ex-PM #ImranKhan's conspiracy claim debunked by #Pakistan's top security forum:

"NSC discussed telegram from 🇵🇰 Emb in 🇺🇸 (...) informed by premier security agencies they found no evidence of any conspiracy (...) The NSC (...) concludes there has been no foreign conspiracy." /2
Today's National Security Committee of the Cabinet is more credible than the Mar 31 meet that ex-PM #ImranKhan politicized. This meeting is strengthened by the presence of Amb @asadmk17, ex-Washington, the Amb who wrote the cable and briefed the NSC. /3
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Apr 21
Ex-PM #ImranKhan addressing a rally. Entire focus is on incitement, using vocabulary reminiscent of 1960s Mideast: conspiracy+colonialism+anti-Americanism+religion; & 15yo drone attacks. Xenophobia was used as a political tool for yrs. Khan has hijacked it to unsettle #Pakistan.
Besides the above, ex-PM's strategy is to present himself as a victim of alleged international conspiracy instead of accountability for why his govt crashed under inexperience+mismanagement, squandering an impressive 2018 victory. /2
Part of the victimhood narrative is a claim that a pro-#ImranKhan TV channel is blocked in cable broadcasts across the country. But moments ago, #Pakistan's TV regulator called out this disinformation: /3

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Apr 20
Picture of the day: What kosher/halal #American intervention in #Pakistan politics looks like.
Ex-PM #ImranKhan, who protested #US figures/officials meeting #Pakistan politicians as meddling and conspiracy, receives American lawmaker and welcomes her support for his party.

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