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Police file TERRORISM charges against former Pakistan PM Imran Khan after he criticized cops in a speech to supporters
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Posted on 08/22/2022 11:58:06 AM PDT by algore

Pakistani police have filed terrorism charges against former prime minister Imran Khan, authorities said, escalating political tensions in the country as the ousted premier holds mass rallies seeking to return to office.

The charges come after Khan gave a speech in Islamabad on Saturday where he alleged that a close aide had been tortured after his arrest.

Khan vowed to sue police officers and a female judge shortly before the terrorism charges were filed against him.

The former prime minister could face several years in prison but appears to still be free and has not addressed the charges lodged against him publicly.

Supporters of Khan gathered on Monday outside his hilltop mansion in the capital Islamabad, vowing to prevent his arrest, officials of his political party said.

Tehreek-e-Insaf, Khan's political party, warned it will hold nationwide rallies if the police arrest Khan and published videos online showing supporters surrounding his home.

The protesters chanted slogans against the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, which took over after Khan was ousted following a confidence vote in April.

'If Imran Khan is arrested... we will take over Islamabad,' a former minister in his cabinet, Ali Amin Gandapur, said on Twitter, as some party leaders urged supporters to prepare for mass mobilisation.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: imrankhan; isis; kahn; kashmir; pakistan; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 08/22/2022 11:58:06 AM PDT by algore
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To: algore

Are they taking notes from Biden?


2 posted on 08/22/2022 11:59:29 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: algore

Wow - the USA, Brazil, Pakistan - the pattern is repeating worldwide. Now, they’re coming after Kristi Noem.


3 posted on 08/22/2022 12:00:14 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: algore

Now we know where Merrick Garland went on his “vacation.”


4 posted on 08/22/2022 12:00:39 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: algore
'If Imran Khan is arrested... we will take over Islamabad,' a former minister in his cabinet, Ali Amin Gandapur, said on Twitter, as some party leaders urged supporters to prepare for mass mobilisation.

Sounds like an insurrection.

5 posted on 08/22/2022 12:02:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: algore

Welcome to the club PM Kahn. You are now an “MVE” per the fbi. 😂👍


6 posted on 08/22/2022 12:07:08 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: algore
The idiot Bush could have done anything he wanted after 9/11. He could and should have had the U.S. military confiscate all of Pakistan's nukes.
Instead he bent over for the Taliban-protecting scumbag Musharraf.


7 posted on 08/22/2022 12:08:34 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

American foreign policy has never figured out the fork tongued Islamic snake called Pakistan.


8 posted on 08/22/2022 12:14:00 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only road to keep USA viable.s)
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To: montag813

No wonder Bush couldn’t find Bin Laden.


9 posted on 08/22/2022 12:15:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: algore
Pakistan and the United States: both very much “Third World”.
10 posted on 08/22/2022 12:16:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: algore
Sounds like the Pakistani government went FULL US Department of Justice.

Never go Full US Department of Justice.

It makes you look third-world.

11 posted on 08/22/2022 12:29:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Now, they’re coming after Kristi Noem.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/south-dakota-governor-kristi-noem-misconduct-daughter-00053139

Worked on Palin. Worked on Trump.

Won't stop working until some decorations go up in local Esso stations around the country.

Remember - the US "Deportment of Jesters" has shown us all that US "law enfarcement" is political.

12 posted on 08/22/2022 12:33:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: algore

I guess the Pakistanis have been watching how Western States deal with dissenters.


13 posted on 08/22/2022 12:53:45 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: algore

Sounds like America.


14 posted on 08/22/2022 1:19:57 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: kiryandil; marcusmaximus; BeauBo; algore

Kiryandil “It makes you look third-world”.

So Americans are “you”, not “us” to kiryandil; hmm...


15 posted on 08/22/2022 8:24:08 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos
So Americans are “you”, not “us” to kiryandil; hmm...

Your Polish grasp of English is showing, Cronos.

My good Polish friends have similar comprehension problems.

The "you" is referring to Pakistan, and any other foreign countries that follow the lead of the illegitimate clowns who are running the US.

16 posted on 08/22/2022 8:29:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Not a Pole.

Besides you clearly indicate that you consider Americans who don’t support your President Putin, to be the other...


17 posted on 08/23/2022 4:50:44 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos
Besides you clearly indicate that you consider Americans who don’t support your President Putin, to be the other...

We've already established your level of English comprehension.

Or non-comprehension, to be more precise.

18 posted on 08/23/2022 6:09:52 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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