27/12/2024
𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐦𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐉𝐚𝐢𝐥:
- 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟔, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
"God willing, 2025 will be the year of genuine sovereignty, democracy and rule of law. 2024 was a challenging year for Pakistan. Undoubtedly, freedom is always hard-earned!
The proposal I received for a deal was: "Negotiate with us, and we will give your party 'political space', but you will be placed under house arrest and moved to Bani Gala."
My response was that all other political prisoners must first be released. I would rather stay in jail than accept any deal. I will neither go into house arrest nor to any jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
My message to my nation is to not lose heart; your captain is standing firm!
To overseas Pakistanis:
Join the campaign to boycott remittances. Currently, the government is playing 'committee after committee' regarding our demands. If negotiations yield positive results, the boycott campaign will be halted. This is a protest for true freedom and the restoration of democracy.
Had there been rule of law in the country, we would have attracted investments, and the economy would have stabilized. But no attention was paid to this. Investors are withdrawing their capital, and factories are shutting down.
Trials related to May 9 were conducted in military courts on their whims. If these trials had been conducted in open courts, the video footage of the events of May 9 would have had to be presented. The video record of the attack on me at the Islamabad Judicial Complex on March 18, 2023, was deliberately made to disappear. A transparent trial is a fundamental constitutional right of citizens. Trying cases in military courts has violated the basic rights of citizens and has caused severe embarrassment for Pakistan at an international level.
The Constitutional bench has been set up (in the Supreme Court) so that it can be used the way Qazi Faez Isa was being used.
Intelligence agencies are meant to safeguard our borders and prevent terrorism. Who will guard our borders if their focus is on political engineering and dismantling PTI? They must rethink their policies.
Afghanistan has been bombed twice. Earlier, it was claimed that forcibly repatriating refugees would reduce terrorism, but it only fueled hatred, which is detrimental to regional peace. Not once did Bilawal, when he was the Foreign Minister, visit Afghanistan although that should have been the priority. I had even told General (Rtd.) Bajwa to not replace General (Rtd.) Faiz because the situation in Afghanistan would be very different after the US forces exited. However, he was making decisions to enable his own extension rather than to benefit Pakistan. Which is why Pakistan suffered as there was an increase in terrorism."
