![]() ![]() It claimed that during the violent protests, government property worth Pakistani Rs 25 crore was damaged. Youth were incited against the state through the use of social media,” said the report.Įarlier, on 14 May, the Islamabad police stated that 564 people had been held for violence following the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, and that further arrests were being made, according to Dawn. “The forensic reports of the links will be made part of the investigation report. Police added that the renowned PTI personalities and social media handlers kept sharing allegedly offensive material, as reported by Samaa.Ī forensic test is being conducted on the videos and posts over allegedly anti-state statements contained in the shared links. Security personnel escort a vehicle carrying former Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan as he arrives to appear before an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad. The article has been republished and the views expressed in the article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Global Village Space.Police said that the links shared are based on the videos and posts of PTI leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Murad Saeed and Hammad Azhar and the statements of the political leaders will also form part of the Joint Investigative Team’s final report on the 9 May violence cases, the report said. He specializes in Russian affairs and geopolitics, specifically the US strategy in Eurasia. No patriotic Pakistani can support what he just did.Īndrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst, radio host, and regular contributor to several online outlets. Regardless of how one feels about him or his policies, he still officially represents Pakistan on the world stage, and his latest tweet just made this proud nuclear-armed power look ignorant and petty. In addition, Sharif should edit out his comparison of IK to Goebbels or delete his tweet and repost it without that false equivalence if he’s not able to do the former. That person needs to be fired right away and replaced with someone much more competent. Pakistan’s powerful military-intelligence structures presumably had the final say on who got this job, which makes one wonder why they selected the incumbent after they just dealt such tremendous harm to the country’s soft power through Sharif’s latest tweet that they wrote for him. This observation raises concerns about the criteria for this prestigious position since there’s no doubt that the person that’s presently occupying it should never have been there in the first place. Whoever wrote Sharif’s inflammatory tweet clearly wasn’t thinking about how it could be interpreted abroad and was focused solely on partisan politics. This makes it seem like the Chinese leader was in cahoots with a wannabe war criminal, which isn’t true but this false narrative could potentially be picked up by his enemies to discredit the People’s Republic. Read more: Pakistan consider allowing women to perform Hajj, Umrah without male guardianĪfter all, President Xi previously hosted IK, who’s now accused of being a Nazi with genocidal intentions and supposedly no different than Goebbels. Even worse, Sharif might have just unintentionally offended his country’s Chinese ally too. Nobody takes such claims seriously, especially whenever they’re made by the face of a country about a member of the opposition. Prior to last year’s regime change, this South Asian state had tried to present a positive image of itself to the international community, but whatever successes it might have achieved were all for nothing after its figurehead just compared his political opponent to a Nazi. Sharif’s tweet, therefore, shows the world that Pakistan has stooped to the point of alleging that its most popular politician is a Nazi, which makes the country look very bad. This figurehead is therefore obligated to be more responsible with his words since everything that he says is an official representative of state policy. ![]() IK and his team’s repeated claims that their replacements are Nazis aren’t on the same level as Sharif’s tweet either since he’s the face of nuclear power while they’re just his opposition. Read more: Pakistan Navy continues rescue, relief operation at cyclone affected areas of Sindh, Balochistan It can also be interpreted as whitewashing the Holocaust too after recklessly claiming that a tweet is equivalent to Goebbels’ incitement of that infamous genocide. This makes Sharif’s tweet very offensive to those whose families suffered during World War II. For starters, IK’s recent words didn’t lead to the genocide of millions like Goebbels’ lies did, and to imply otherwise downplays that role of the latter’s propaganda in fueling the Nazis’ war crimes. ![]()
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