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An Ode to Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi

In the land of the Pure, where five rivers flow,

Emerged a leader, with a clear vision to show.

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi was his name,

Indomitably courageous, seeking fortune and fame.

Born in Lahore, with dreams in his eyes,

A cricketer's spirit, reaching for the skies.

Through cricket fields, he made his mark,

But destiny called him to a different embark.

In the realm of politics, a journey began,

A mission for justice, a noble plan.

Imran Khan, with charisma so rare,

Championing the cause, with utmost care.

With the green and white flag unfurled,

He stepped into the political world.

Building a party, like a fortress strong,

Promising a nation where all could belong.

Through trials and tribulations, he strode,

A leader determined, on a challenging road.

In the corridors of power, he took his stand,

A captain of change for his beloved land.

With eloquence and passion, he spoke,

Awakening the masses, hearts awoke.

A promise for a Naya Pakistan, anew,

A dream that in every heart it grew.

Through battles fought on the political stage,

Imran Khan stood undeterred, like a sage.

A statesman with ideals, resolute and bold,

Guiding a nation, with a future to mold.

Economic reforms and social change,

Aiming for a system fair, and not estrange.

In the face of adversity, he remained stout,

For a better tomorrow, erasing doubt.

Yet, the journey is long, challenges vast,

In the tapestry of time, a die is cast.

Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, a leader true,

In the annals of history, his story grew.

So, let the narrative unfold,

Of a leader, a tale of courage untold.

Imran Khan, a captain in life's grand game, In Pakistan's story, etching his name...

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My most beautiful Libra rising, Imran Khan

i like to write about the rising signs a lot because i think people don't get that your ascendant is not just a facade. it is so much more than that. libra risings for example is some of the most emotionally intense people i've ever met, also extremely unique individuals yet mainstream astrology just considers them as the "prettiest" and the "mediator" and leave it at that. i don't think people get how interesting these people are. having capricorn (ruled by saturn) in your 4th house is never easy. these people's relationship dynamics with their moms are truly complex and so different than most.

they're also very smart and can be as egotistical as leo rising. also libra risings rarely let people in as much as others like to think. they're very careful of who they allow in tbh. i think more than anyone they should know it pretty well when it comes to losing friends and gaining new ones. they're very cautious of people but they only express this to their closest circle. i also think one of the fear libra rising has is to end up being alone. they are flirtatious when needed but at the end of the day, they will always go through life trying to find their perfect half.

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dont bash me if irman khan would be dr adam carlsan in bollywood apdation of the love hypothesis

I would see anything Imran Khan did again please I miss him

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Ex-Pakistan Leader Imran Khan applies for Oxford University chancellor role from jail

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister who has been imprisoned for over a year, is now aiming for a new role—Oxford University chancellor. His adviser confirmed on X that Khan submitted his application just before the deadline on Sunday night. The former cricket superstar, who studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) at Oxford’s Keble College in 1972, is already an honorary fellow…

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Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan And Wife Get 7-Year Jail For Illegal Marriage

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife have been sentenced to seven years in prison on a charge that their 2018 marriage broke the country’s laws, officials and their defence lawyers have said.   The verdict comes just days after Khan, who is also a cricket legend in the country, and his wife Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 14 years in prison. They were sentenced on Wednesday…

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The Cost of Peace in India-Pakistan Relations

Since their independence in 1947, India-Pakistan relations have sustained mutual animosity towards each other. The bloody partition that caused the death of over a million and displaced over 15 million Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs across borders has left a lasting imprint on the two countries. India and Pakistan fought three major wars in 1947, 1965, and 1971, and the 1999 Kargil conflict. Since…

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Imran Khan Updates: ইমরানের গ্রেফতারির পরেই ইসলামাবাদ জুড়ে কঠোর নিরাপত্তা...

জি ২৪ ঘণ্টা ডিজিটাল ব্যুরো: পাকিস্তানের প্রাক্তন প্রধানমন্ত্রী তথা ‘তেহরিক-ই-ইনসাফ’ (পিটিআই) দলের প্রধান, তথা পাক ক্রিকেটের রাজপুত্র ইমরান খান গ্রেফতার হওয়ার পরেই পাকিস্তান জুড়ে নিশ্ছিদ্র করা হচ্ছে নিরাপত্তা, বিশেষ করে কঠোর নিরাপত্তার চাদরে মুড়ে ফেলা হয়েছে ইসলামাবাদ ও রাওয়ালপিণ্ডি। যদি ইমরানের গ্রেফতারির প্রতিবাদ করে কোথাও কোনও বিক্ষোভ দানা বাঁধে তবে তা প্রথমেই যাতে মোকাবিলা করা যায়, তাই এই…

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Imran Khan in High Court For Toshakhana case

Imran Khan News: The Lahore High Court will hear the Toshakhana corruption case against Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan today. At the same time, a case of treason has been registered against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Imran Khan along with all the prominent leaders of the party. Criticism of the government or its organizations in Pakistan is sedition According to the…

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Pakistan: Police reached his house to arrest former PM Imran Khan, Maryam Nawaz threatened Police have reached his house to arrest former Pakistan PM Imran Khan where supporters have pelted stones at the police. At the same time, Maryam Nawaz has threatened by tweeting, know what she has said- Image Source: TWITTER Police reached to arrest Imran Khan Lahore: Police have reached outside the…

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Asim Munir became Pakistan new Army Chief

Asim Munir became Pakistan new Army Chief

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Pakistan's powerful army chief has urged the country to leave "anarchy and polarisation" behind as two ex-prime ministers declared victory in an election that has defied expectations.

With most results in, independent candidates linked to jailed former PM Imran Khan have won most seats.

But Nawaz Sharif, another ex-PM widely seen as having the army's backing, has urged others to join him in coalition.

Officials have also rejected Western criticism of how the election was run.[...]

Mr Khan released an AI-generated video message rejecting his rival's claim and calling on supporters to celebrate. He has been jailed on charges of leaking state secrets, corruption and an unlawful marriage and his PTI party was banned from taking part in the polls.

About 100 of the winning candidates are independents and all but eight of them are backed by the PTI, the non-profit Free and Fair Election Network said.

On Saturday PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan said the party would try to form a government and would start protesting on Sunday if complete election results had not been released by then.

Mr Sharif's PML-N party won 73 seats and he acknowledged that he did not have the numbers to form a government alone, but insisted he could remove the country from difficult times at the head of a coalition.

The PPP of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the son of assassinated PM Benazir Bhutto, got 54 seats and the rest - the largest number of seats - were won by smaller parties and independents.

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In Pakistan, the current election is considered to be the most rigged in the country's history. Former PM Imran Khan is in prison and barred from election because the corrupt cronies (Nawaz Sharif, Shabaz Sharif, etc) know they'll never get enough votes to beat him.

Overnight, they forged votes and got the army to threaten voters.

🇵🇰Pakistan stands with Imran Khan. 🇵🇰

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This piece was published in 2018 and seems like he never got around to it. Did allow refugees to open bank accounts though

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Two bomb explosions near candidates' offices in the Pakistani province of Balochistan killed at least 28 people and wounded dozens on the eve of general elections, officials said.

The first blast killed 16 people in Pishin district, north of Quetta city.

A second explosion left 12 people dead in Qila Saifullah to the east. There was no immediate claim for the attacks.

The vote has been marred by violence and claims of poll-rigging. Former PM Imran Khan is barred from contesting.

Police are still trying to determine the cause of the two blasts.

Resource-rich Balochistan - Pakistan's largest, and poorest, province - has a history of violence. It has seen a decades-long struggle for greater autonomy by various groups, some of them armed. Islamist militants, including the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), operate along the border with Afghanistan.

The bomb in Pishin, a town about 100km (62 miles) south-east of the Afghan border, went off in front of an independent candidate's party office. The provincial authorities said 25 people were also wounded.

Images on social media showed cars and motorbikes blown apart by the force of the explosion. Officials told the BBC the candidate was meeting his polling agent at the time.

The second blast targeted the election office of the JUI-F party. A senior police official told AFP news agency it took place in the main bazaar of Qila Saifullah, about 190km (120 miles) east of Quetta.

Twenty people were wounded in the incident and the number of casualties in the two attacks could rise, officials said.

There have been violent incidents in both Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces in the week before Thursday's vote, and the violence in Pishin and Qila Saifullah was not unexpected.

In mid-January, Baloch Liberation Army-Azad (BLA) insurgents released a pamphlet after claiming responsibility for bombing an election training office. The pamphlet urged people to boycott the elections. Soon after, reports of hand grenade attacks on political party offices were reported from various cities in the province.

Many voters in Balochistan feel neglected by the country's political parties, given the province has so few seats in parliament. They often feel candidates are foisted on them, with few if any links to Balochistan.

And many feel the vote is unfair. "It is a selection," numerous people told BBC Urdu in the city of Turbat last month.

Following Wednesday's attacks, the Balochistan government said Thursday's vote would proceed as planned.

"Rest assured, we will not allow terrorists to undermine or sabotage this crucial democratic process," provincial information minister Jan Achakzai posted on X, formerly Twitter.

More than 128 million voters are eligible to cast ballots in the election. In Pakistan's first-past-the-post system, 266 of 336 National Assembly seats are directly elected.

But many people are questioning the credibility of the vote as Khan and his party, the PTI, have been sidelined.

The PTI won the largest number of seats in the last general election but Khan was jailed on corruption charges last year and disqualified from running for public office. Last week he was convicted in three other cases and faces years in prison - he says all the charges are politically motivated.

The authorities deny carrying out a crackdown, but many PTI leaders are behind bars, in hiding or have defected. Thousands of the party's supporters were rounded up after protests - at times violent - when Khan was taken into custody last year.

PTI candidates are having to run as independents following the electoral commission's decision to strip the party of its cricket bat symbol. Electoral symbols are vital in helping voters mark their ballots in a country with high rates of illiteracy.

The man tipped to win Thursday's election is three-time former PM Nawaz Sharif, who himself was behind bars at the last election. Analysts say it appears he has done a deal with the military to facilitate his return to politics.

A high turnout will be key to the PTI's chances, many analysts say. How to tackle, and who to blame for, the country's economic crisis will be high in voters' minds. Results must be announced within 14 days of the election.

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Pakistani Corrupt Military Use Age-Old Tactics To Keep Imran Khan Away From Election

Former Prime Minister, Once Corrupt Military’s Golden Boy, Has Been Sentenced In Two Separate Politically Motivated Cases To 10 and 14 Years

— Hannah Ellis-Petersen, South Asia Correspondent | Guardian USA | Wednesday January 31, 2024

A vendor holds a picture of the jailed Former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photograph: Bilawal Arbab/EPA

The script seems eerily familiar. Imran Khan, once the golden boy of Pakistan’s Corrupt Powerful Military Establishment, found himself at the receiving end of not one, but two, damning court verdicts this week.

Sentenced to 10 years in jail on Tuesday, and 14 years on Wednesday, the brazen timing of the convictions in two separate cases made one thing abundantly clear: the military will stop at nothing to keep Khan away from Pakistan’s general election, which will be held next week.

It was not so long ago that Khan himself benefited from these age-old tactics utilised repeatedly in Pakistan’s chequered political history. In 2018, when Khan was running for prime minister, it was the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif who had fallen out of grace with the military and found himself facing charges of corruption and being barred from office. Less than two weeks before the election in July 2018, Sharif was sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Now the tables have turned again. Khan has become the military’s harshest critic, confined behind bars, while a cowed Sharif has reconciled with the army generals and his path back to power has been cleared. As allegations of pre-poll rigging have abounded, Sharif is expected to be all but escorted into an election win.

Khan was already banned from running in the election, but the back-to-back convictions and hefty prison sentences speak to the strength of the military’s campaign against its former protege.

Since he was toppled from power in April 2022 – after a vote of no confidence widely acknowledged to have been orchestrated by the military – Khan’s criticisms of the army establishment and its tight control over Pakistani politics has been unprecedented.

Yet his campaign against the military was always doomed to fail given its iron grip, and since August, when Khan was finally arrested, it was made clear that the military would stop at nothing to sideline Khan and destroy his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

Any pretence of due judicial process being followed was abandoned entirely at both cases where Khan was sentenced this week. Instead of an open courtroom, the trials were conducted inside the jail where Khan is being detained and his lawyers were not allowed to choose or cross-examine any witnesses.

Given the hefty crackdown on PTI in recent months, including all rallies being shut down by police and all coverage of the party largely banned from news channels, the party is a shadow of its former self, even if it still commands huge support from voters.

For many observers, Khan’s double convictions only serve to confirm that the elections are likely to be among the least credible in Pakistan’s recent history, pushing the country several steps back on its turbulent path towards democracy.

It is reflected too in the unusually muted political campaigning period. As the military has proved to be unafraid to show its hand in “managing” the election, even as it claims to be apolitical, all semblance of a fair fight has dissipated, with parties barely even putting forward a manifesto.

Among Pakistan’s voters, many of whom still revere Khan, there is a sense of anger and apathy. Yet most will echo the same refrain; in Pakistani politics, nothing ever really changes.

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Imran Khan, Pakistan Former PM, Sentenced To 14 Years in Prison For Corruption (Politically Motivated Charges)

Ruling against Khan and wife Bushra Bibi comes just a day after a 10-year sentence was handed down, and just before Pakistan goes to the polls in a general election

— Hannah Ellis-Petersen, South Asia Correspondent | Wednesday 31 January 2024

Pakistan former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on corruption charges. Photograph: Mohsin Raza/Reuters

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a corruption case, a day after he was given a 10-year sentence for leaking state secrets.

Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, was also handed a 14-year sentence in the case, known as Toshakhana, which accused them both of illegally selling state gifts. The judge also banned them both from holding political office for 10 years.

The sentence, given at a hearing held in the Rawalpindi prison where Khan, 71, is being held, further worsens the plight of the beleaguered former prime minister, who has been in jail since August and is facing more than 100 different charges.

The judge had denied Khan’s lawyers’ request to cross-examine witnesses in the trial and his lawyers were not present on Wednesday, when the sentence was given.

Khan questioned why there was an apparent rush to wrap up the case. “Why are you in a hurry to announce the verdict? I have not even recorded my final statement,” he told the judge, before exiting the courtroom. The verdict was then given without either Khan or Bibi present.

Bibi surrendered to the authorities at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Wednesday morning.

The Toshakhana verdict came a day after a special court, also held in prison, found Khan guilty of leaking state secrets in relation to a sensitive diplomatic cable that allegedly went missing in his possession. Khan had described the trial as a sham and lawyers said he would be appealing against the verdict.

The timing of both consecutive convictions was deemed as significant by observers, coming a week before Pakistan goes to the polls in its long-delayed general election. Though Khan is already banned from running, he remains hugely popular among voters.

This is Khan’s second sentencing in the Toshakaha case, which related to allegations that the former prime minister bought several gifts given by rulers and government officials at low prices and sold them on for an undeclared profit. Khan had denied all wrongdoing.

The anti-corruption watchdog alleged that Khan and his wife had received 108 gifts from heads of state and foreign officials, some worth millions of rupees, during his term as prime minister and that many had been illegally kept or sold by the pair.

Khan was initially given a three-year sentence in the case in August, but after a higher court threw out the judgment, the legal proceedings began again after investigators presented fresh evidence relating to jewellery given by the Saudi crown prince and allegedly kept by Khan and his wife.

On Wednesday, the judge issued an even more severe sentence against both Khan and his wife, which included a collective fine of 787m rupees ($2.8m).

Khan, who was toppled from power in 2022, has claimed that the mounting cases against him are politically motivated.

Since he was removed from office in a vote of no-confidence, Khan began to publicly criticise the country’s powerful military, who have long been accused of meddling in politics. He alleged the military leadership bore a “grudge” against him and were orchestrating his imprisonment so he could not run in the elections.

Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has also faced harassment and intimidation, with senior leadership imprisoned or put under pressure to leave the party, while workers have been prevented from campaigning or holding political rallies in the buildup to the election.

A statement by PTI on X after Wednesday’s verdict said Khan and Bibi had faced “yet another kangaroo trial in which no right to defence was given to both”.

The party said there had been a “complete destruction of every existing law in Pakistan in two days”.

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President of Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan's party arrested in Lahore

ISLAMABAD: The president of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s party was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, local channel Geo News said.Pervez Elahi joins a long list of key leaders from the party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, to be arrested in recent weeks in a countrywide crackdown.Khan’s own arrest on May 9 sparked widespread protests, raising fresh worries about…