1- Iddat case details thread 🧵

As I read the 51-page judgment on the iddat case (Khawar Maneka versus Imran Khan - Compliant # 7096/2023), I will be sharing some of my observations as i come across them in this thread. 👇 2- Right off the bat, on page 4, you will see why Khawar Maneka is bringing forward this case under PPC Section 496. In screenshot below he mentions that his right to make ruju’ (reconcile with his wife) during the iddat period was violated by this Nikah during iddat 👇

The Outsiders’ blind spot for Imran Khan 🧵

Many ppl outside of Pakistan, especially non-Pakistanis in the Muslim world, are curious and worried about developments in Pakistan. I was moved to do this thread by some conversations I had with this group of questioners. I picked a recurring theme with foreigners trying to grapple with what is going on in Pakistan - their window into Pakistani events is mostly through Imran Khan’s political narrative. My objective here is not to enlighten you about the chronology of how & why Pakistan got here.

I can never know what the situation was like for my family in Bihar just before partition. Just given of what I know about the Muslim League, I don’t think I would have personally bought the partition idea. I am not very impressed by the leadership of that era frankly. None of them stands out as someone who would’ve struck me as “OK, I am willing to suspend everything for the vision/idea of this person.” Never got the chance to talk to my grandfather for what were his reasons of buying the Muslim League dream.

There are video proof and audio leaks of PTI parliamentarians from KP/GB getting armed ppl to Zaman Park. But this woke lot is disturbed that Punjabis living in Zaman Park are incensed that outsiders have occupied their peaceful neighborhoods and made it a war zone. Zaman Park is not a D-chowk type enclave secluded and cut off from the populace. It’s a damn neighborhood. Imran Khan and his goons are making life for its residents untenable with daily hooliganism, rioting, sloganeering and resulting police shelling, containers, checklists etc.

Who are Imran Khan’s political allies today? No one of note. The only one you could pull out is PMLQ who have now merged with PTI. Because an exclusivist brand does NOT tolerate other entities outside of it. Khan is on path to fascism. It’s the state’s job to stop him, period. If Khan wins, which is a possibility even if remote, then we will see him grow worse and worse in his behavior. We will move to a one-man system that will then collapse after he dies. And because whole system would become contingent on him, state will also collapse.