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World Exclusive: Pakistan Ex-PM, The Legend of Legends and One & Only, Imran Khan Says Defying U.S. Policy Led to His Downfall

— By Tom O'Connor | June 10, 2023 | Newsweek

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chair and Former Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks to Newsweek from his residence in Lahore on June 9. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Khan was illegally ousted from the Prime Minister’s Office in a Conspiracy by the “United States, Corrupt to their Cores Lowlives Army Generals who are Ruling Pakistan for the Past 75 Years, Since Pakistan’s Independence, directly/Indirectly, Politicians and Judiciary.”

In an exclusive interview, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks with Tom O'Connor, Newsweek's Senior Foreign Policy Writer and Deputy Editor of National Security and Foreign Policy, about the ominous road the country he once led is going down, his deepening legal troubles and what he believes was the role of the United States in his ousting from power over a year ago.

With the nuclear-armed nation of nearly 250 million people mired in economic and political turmoil, the conflicting narratives over Khan's saga has threatened to push Pakistan over the edge.

It's the second time in less than two years that Newsweek has interviewed the cricket star-turned-politician who leads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, having spoken with him in September 2021 during his premiership. The following April, he faced a no-confidence vote that pushed him out of power, which was followed by a slew of charges lodged against him under the incoming administration of current Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, whom Newsweek interviewed last August.

Today, Khan is largely confined to his residence in Lahore while on bail from successive court appearances on allegations ranging from corruption to terrorism and even murder. In all cases, he has maintained his innocence and accused the Sharif administration along with the influential armed forces of pursuing a concerted campaign to silence him as elections loom in October.

Khan asserts that the conspiracy began while he was in office, as he claims political forces within Pakistan swayed Washington to portray Khan as an enemy of the U.S. Though he rejects this characterization of his views, he does accuse the West of double standards and defends his own non-aligned policy in international affairs, even if he believes it ultimately helped lead to his removal from office and the beginning of a long, growing list of problems.

The Following Transcript Has Been Lightly Edited For Length and Clarity:

Newsweek: It's been less than two years since the last time I interviewed you, when you were on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Then, of course, you were the prime minister. And since then, you've been ousted, you've been shot, you've been arrested, and you're still in the midst of this arduous legal process. Can you tell us what's happened, and where are you right now in this process?

Khan: Well, the people who conspired to pull down my government, which was the ex-Army Chief [Qamar Javad Bajwa], and afterwards, he quite clearly stated [as such]. Because within his own circles, within the army circles, they kept asking, "Why did they remove me?" So, he actually then justified it that I was dangerous. He claimed I was dangerous for Pakistan. And they gave some other reasons, too.

So, what happened subsequently was unique in Pakistan, because on April 9 last year, my government was removed. And on April 10, which has never happened in this country, hundreds and thousands of people came out on the streets to protest. So that took the military establishment, which means the army chief—by the way, military establishment means one man. There's no democratic process there. It's just one man that makes decisions, and he's very powerful. Over the years, the army chief has gathered powers which probably no other army chief has in the world, I guess [except for] places like Myanmar and Sudan, but in democracies, it's unheard of.

But when the people came out, it was a shock to everyone, including myself. By the way, I'd never expected people because we never planned it. It was a spontaneous reaction. And then I went to the public, had a series of rallies, and all were massive rallies, bigger than any rallies in Pakistan. And then there were by-elections. So, my party swept. Out of 37 by-elections, my party won 30, with the army siding with the government. Normally, it is said that the establishment makes you win, but the establishment was on the other side with all the 22 parties or 12 parties. And despite that, we swept 30 elections.

Clearly what happened was, having realized that they made a mistake, the army chief, and whatever his advisers do, they decided that, whatever happens, I should not be allowed to come back.

So, what you're seeing right now is that same process going on, the assassination attempt was part of it. There were two, by the way, there was another assassination attempt on me on March 18. They were part of that, whatever happens, I can't come back. Then, this false flag operation, which happened on May 9, they could easily have come and pick me up, the police could have come and said, "Here's your warrant, and we're taking you to jail." That could have happened, but instead, while I'm sitting in the High Court [of Islamabad], I have this commando operation where they come and smash everything...They beat up everyone. I was hit over my head.

And then they took me away like I was some sort of the biggest terrorist in this country, not someone who was having the biggest party in the country. But the moment I was in the jeep, suddenly they were completely polite, very courteous and polite.

So, when I look back, it was a planned thing because they want a reaction. And as a result of the reaction, this arson took place. Now, my party has been [around] 27 years [since] I started [it]. Never have we indulged in arson or violence, even when I was shot. There were demonstrations, but there was no arson. This time, when I'm inside, three days or four days later, the Supreme Court calls me up and then releases me. It was unlawful, clearly what they did was unlawful. They call it abduction. It wasn't an arrest.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chair and former Prime Minister Imran Khan (left) leaves from the High Court in Islamabad on June 8, a day before his interview with Newsweek. Khan says he is facing up to 150 charges, having received bail for 19 so far. Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images

Meanwhile, I come out and find that this corps commander's house had been burned and a television radio station had been burned, so I was quite surprised. And I thought maybe the mob had gone mad. Then we discovered that it was a planned thing. I mean, everywhere the word started coming that there were these people planted who did this. And amazingly, the corps commander's house is the most heavily guarded house. And yet, while the crowd took two hours to get to his house, the police knew where they were going, there was no protection. And yet the head of our Punjab party is sitting there, this woman [Yasmin Rashid], and she's telling everyone on the loudspeaker not to go inside the house.

Yet, not only are we blamed, but in in the next 48 hours, or maybe slightly more, my entire leadership is in jail. But worse, 10,000 of our workers are put in jail. Now this couldn't have been unless it was a planned operation, pre-planned. How can you immediately know where the workers were? So immediately, 10,000 workers are put in like a military operation. The rest of the workers are in hiding. The senior leadership can only come out if they go on the media and say, "I'm quitting the party." So, that's how the senior leaders have come out. Most of my people are in hiding now who are not in jail.

So, I'm quite isolated right now, and I have to face cases. I've got over 150 cases. Yesterday, I was in court, I had 19 cases. It's unheard of—19 bail cases, and ranging from murder—I mean, the latest case that they blamed me for murder. Out of the 150 cases, one of the cases was that some lawyer had done a treason case on me, which was a frivolous case, it would have been thrown out, irrelevant case really, and the lawyer gets shot in Quetta, which is a remote province. And they put a murder case on me.

So, this is the situation now. I have these cases against me, my leadership is in jail, unless they renounce, and a lot of them have renounced being in the party, and the other office bearers are either in hiding or in jail, the few of the 10,000 people, and it's ongoing, the arrests are happening.

But it's not just that. The entire media, which has asserted its independence over a period of time, the last 20 years, from a controlled media we went to a completely, in fact, overboard media...but very vibrant, they have been [told] that my name cannot be mentioned on television today—there are about 30, 40 channels. Everyone has been instructed. First, they stopped my interviews and speeches, and now I'm completely blacked out.

But the worst thing is our judiciary. There too was a movement. Sixteen years ago, I was put in jail when I joined the movement for an independent judiciary. Our chief justice had been removed by the then-dictator General [Pervez] Musharraf. So, we all stood for an independent judiciary. And actually, that movement worked. The chief justice was reinstated. And from then onwards, the judiciary became fairly independent—in other words, they would be protecting us from the excesses of the executive. And so, we were moving more towards democracy with an independent judiciary, vibrant media. And the only issue was the Election Commission, which was still a bit controlled. Now everything is rolled back.

The judiciary is now controlled; they [government officials] don't listen to the verdicts of the judiciary. One of our office bearers, five times he got bail in the cases he's been in. Five times they slapped another case and put him back in prison...He can only get out if he renounces being part of PTI.

So, this is the situation right now. The party is being systematically dismantled. But bear in mind, this party has ratings today over 70 percent. It is by far the most popular party in our history, and it's a federal party. Normally, the parties are confined to the four provinces. So, the rating is unprecedented in our history. I mean, in what Pakistan is now, no party is as popular, but they're trying to dismantle it. But in trying to dismantle it, they're actually dismantling the democracy.

United States, Corrupt to their cores Army Generals, Politicians and Judiciary Backed “Pakistani Crimes Minister Shahbaz Sharif,” (The Most Corrupt, Looter, Money Launderer, Killer, Terrorist and out of Jail on bails Criminal) sits below a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who first led Pakistan after independence from the United Kingdom and partition with India in 1947, on February 2 in his office in Islamabad. Sharif heads the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party, named after his brother, Corrupt, looter, Traitor, Killer, and disqualified by The Supreme Court of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, who served three non-consecutive terms as premier, but, like every other leader in Pakistan's 75-year history, did not complete any of them. Office of the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

What you're outlining and what you're saying, is this planned operation, a false flag, a conspiracy. And you've named the military establishment, you've named the Sharif administration, and you've named the United States before. Who's behind this, and how are they coordinating? Where are they trying to achieve here in Pakistan? What's their goal?

Let me just give you exactly what happened. March 6, 2022, there's a meeting between the Pakistani ambassador Asad Majeed [Khan] and the U.S. Under Secretary of State for South Asia Donald Lu. A cipher is the secret, coded message that you get from your ambassadors...So, I get this message. Donald Lu is telling the ambassador that unless I, Imran Khan, am removed as the prime minister in the no-confidence motion, there'll be consequences for Pakistan. I mean, there were other things, but this was the main thing.

Next day, there's the no-confidence motion tabled in the National Assembly. And before that, we see that the American Embassy is meeting our parliamentarians, our backbenchers...[We know] they were meeting because we had the report of meeting... Some of the guys who were going into the American Embassy beforehand were first to jump ship. So, I was puzzled, because I didn't quite understand why would the U.S. object to a deal.

One thing was, I had gone to Russia. Unfortunately, when I arrived, that's the day [Russian President Vladimir] Putin moved into Ukraine. I mean, he certainly didn't consult me. Otherwise, had I known, obviously, I wouldn't have gone. But at the time, our foreign office had said we didn't have a good relationship with the Russians for a long time. And the whole sort of stakeholders, including the army leadership, they all wanted me to go because there was military hardware they wanted from Russia, and then we wanted cheap oil from Russia, plus get a pipeline, plus wheat—we have 2 million tons of wheat we import from them.

So, that's why the trip was planned. When I got there, of course, the same day, Putin walked into Ukraine. So, I think I was criticized for that. But what could I do?

When we got back, there was one issue, they [the U.S.] wanted us, through the United Nations, to condemn Russia. But I kept telling them that, look, if we condemned them, we had done a deal with them for cheaper oil, just like India, same deal as India, and also wheat—we were, as I said, 2 million tons short of wheat—so I said, if we condemn them right now, what about the impact it's going to have on our population?

Because the biggest reason for inflation in our country is always oil. Thirty-six percent of our imports are petroleum, and the oil prices already were going up. Now, they're about $70 to $80 a barrel—then it had reached $110. Anyway, my point was, let's stay neutral like India. I think maybe that was it.

Maybe it was the Taliban. [For] 20 years I kept saying there would be no military solution in Afghanistan, because I know the history. We already [have a] bordering province to Afghanistan, which is also Pashtun. Taliban are Pashtun, they're also Pashtun...So anyway, I'd been saying this throughout, that there was no [military] solution. So, I think that was maybe taken as anti-American, because I didn't believe in that military solution.

But later on, we discovered that it was the army chief. We found out six months after my government went, that the army chief actually had appointed a lobbyist, an ex-Pakistani ambassador called Hussain Haqqani, and he had paid him $30,000, when my government was in power, and we didn't know this. He was lobbying for the army chief who wanted an extension, and he wanted clearance from the U.S. And so, this guy was actually working [for the army chief]. He actually did a tweet that General Bajwa is pro-American, Imran Khan is anti-American.

So later on, we discovered that this was actually my own army chief [who] was feeding this thing. So, it wasn't really initiated from the U.S. It was him who had sort of made me into some anti-American...So, it was a conspiracy. It was the army chief, it was the guy who's the prime minister right now, and the U.S. came into it thinking as I'm someone anti-American.

I would like to talk a little about the situation in Pakistan right now, where we have a severe economic crisis, the effects of climate change and, on top of that, some real security concerns with the rise of militant activity. Are you concerned about the future of Pakistan's stability and the worst-case scenarios in terms of, perhaps, a return to military control, or even a total state collapse of a nuclear-armed nation?

When I discovered that General Bajwa was in the last two, three weeks actually trying to undermine my government, I had a meeting with him, and I tried to explain to him that, look, this is a commodity super cycle going on, where the energy prices have hit the roof. We are very delicately balancing our economy. If this government goes at this period, it will create political instability. And once there's political instability, the economy will go into a tailspin. And these guys who you're going to bring because they're the alternative, they have already been three times in government and twice they've left the economy bankrupt.

So, I said they won't be able to control it. Then I sent my finance minister the next day to Bajwa, who explained to him how delicately the economy was balanced. But once there's instability, there will be a lot of problems, especially on our currency, and then we won't be able to control it. So, he was warned. And this is exactly what happened.

The economy from then onwards started going down, our currency started going down. And then it started hitting our industry. The measures they took then to cut the current account deficit, that had an impact on our industry, which was growing. This is all recorded in the economic survey of Pakistan. We actually were growing in the last two years on an average of 6 percent. We were one of the highest growth rates in Pakistan.

And our industry was all around, the agriculture, production sector, agriculture and industry were really after 17 years growing. So, the moment the measures they took once the current currency started falling, inflation started going up, because the moment your currency falls, all imports, especially the inflexible imports like oil and food, palm oil, all of them go up. So, the inflation started going up.

And since then, it has just kept going down. Now we are in probably the worst economic situation in our history. We have the worst inflation. A year ago, when we were there, it was 12.2 percent. Today it is 38 percent inflation, highest in our history. Our exports are falling. So, the dollar income is going down, our exports have gone down by 13 percent, remittances from overseas have gone down by 13 percent. We have record debt. Right now, we've increased the amount of debt. Our entire revenue collection goes into servicing the debt, the debt is still there, but just paying the interest on the debt, the whole revenue goes in there.

So, it is the worst economic situation right now. And the worry is that what this establishment is trying to do right now to crush us is only creating more economic instability.

The only thing that can bring stability are free and fair elections. What you would want in Pakistan in this situation are free and fair elections, a government coming with public mandate, backing of the public, which then can take the very difficult decisions of restructuring the whole economy, bringing in reforms, the whole governance reforms needed and so on. For instance, our government corporations are making huge losses, but unless you have public backing, public mandate, you cannot really restructure them.

So, therefore, we are stuck in this situation. The measures they are taking are creating more economic instability and political instability, which then is feeding into the economic instability. Our currency is now even worse than Sri Lanka, our inflation is even higher than Sri Lanka right now. And this is unsustainable, because sooner or later something will give, because...in just one year buying power has fallen by about 35-40 percent.

Laborers sit under the shade of a wall along a street in Rawalpindi on June 9. Pakistan failed to meet any economic growth targets for the fiscal year 2022-23, according to a key government report released on June 8, a day before the new budget is to be presented to the National Assembly by the corrupt PDM Government under the Umbrella of The Corrupt Traitor Army Generals, Politician sand Judiciary. Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images

Last time we spoke beyond Pakistan itself, we spoke about China, we spoke about Afghanistan, we spoke about the situation in the region and in the world, and there have been these great geopolitical shifts, both while you were in office and after you've been in office, the current battle for influence between the U.S. and China, Russia's war in Ukraine. Where is Imran Khan in all of this, and where is Pakistan, where should Pakistan be in your vision?

Look, what Pakistan needs desperately is stability. For stability, Pakistan should stay out of any conflict. Because that war on terror that Pakistan joined—which by the way I did oppose—it was a ridiculous thing for us to join the U.S. war on terror, simply because we had trained the mujahideen in the '80s to fight the Soviets. Fighting them was considered jihad, and jihad was glorified, and we have trained people in jihad to do guerrilla warfare against the Soviets.

So, the whole war against the Soviets was conducted from the Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan and, again, 70 percent of Pashtuns on our side of the border, 30 percent on the other side, and Taliban are Pashtun. Most of the mujahideen commanders were Pashtun, except for Ahmad Shah Massoud. So, I kept telling them, "Look, if you now join the U.S. war, how are you going to convince these people that fighting the Soviets was jihad, but fighting the U.S. is terrorism? They are going to turn against us. How can you suddenly convince them that jihad is no longer glorious?"

And that's exactly what happened. 80,000 Pakistanis died in that [war on terror]. And over $100 billion was lost to the economy, because there were suicide attacks, bomb attacks going on all over the country. So, I opposed that at the time. And I think that also might have been considered being anti-American. Because, for some reason, if you don't agree with the U.S. foreign policy, you turn anti-American.

But all I'm saying is that Pakistan, the lesson we learned from that was that we need peace and stability. We have a population now of almost 250 million people. Now 250 million people with over 100 million people vulnerable, 50 million people below the poverty line. What Pakistan needs is stability, to have trade with its neighbors, to have peace in Afghanistan, so you can trade with the Central Asian countries who can go through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean.

So that was my idea, that look, we should stay neutral in conflicts. We need to worry about our population, which is the fastest-growing population. We have a huge amount of illiterate, out-of-school children, our health issues are terrible, we have very high child-mortality rates.

So, my concentration always was, "first worry about your own people rather than getting involved in conflicts." And I basically agree with the Indian foreign policy, because India throughout stayed non-aligned. India's foreign policy, look at them, now—they're trading with China, they're trading with Russia, and yet they're part of the strategic alliance with the United States. And that's how it should be, because your foreign policy must reflect what is in the interest of your own population. And that somehow, in the terms of I guess the U.S., is considered anti-American.

And if Pakistan does not achieve this stability, where is the nation headed?

You know, we are at a genuine crossroads in our history of 75 years. Now we are facing either you have free and fair elections, and you go towards democracy and rule of law and strong democratic institutions, or where we are headed right now [which] is basically a totalitarian state. We are now headed towards those dark ages of martial law where there are no fundamental rights.

I mean, our people picked up—10,000 people being picked up. The maximum people involved in the arson could not have been more than 200. There were only four places that got burned. So, 200, okay, 300? How do you justify 10,000 people for one month have been put in jail in inhuman conditions?

I take pride in the fact that the first time women started participating in politics, taking part in peaceful protests was PTI. It's the first time it's happened. And if you see the footage of our protests, whether it is on the 25th [of March] last year, or our rallies, [there is] a huge amount of participation of women and families. And what they did, the sort of brutality against women is just in our part of the world inconceivable. Women have a certain respect in this society. It's never happened that the women get beaten up and jailed and living in these terrible conditions. It's never happened before.

So, I think this brutality is to spread fear, terror. It is actually to spread terror. That is to stop people supporting my party. Anyone associated with my party is jailed, anyone. I mean, even TikTokers, social media people are picked up. Two or three of our best investigative journalists, one was killed last year, because he was very supportive of my point of view, and anti-this regime change. Arshad Sharif was one of our best journalists. First, they had sufficient cases against him. He then left the country, went to Dubai. From Dubai, the Pakistani government pressured to have him ousted. He left Dubai, went to Kenya, where he was murdered.

Now this other guy, who again, is very anti-the regime change and pro-my point of view, and he has the highest viewership on YouTube, because they didn't allow him on our main TV channel, so he went on YouTube. He's disappeared for 20 days. The court asked him to be produced there. The police said, "We don't know where he is." So, he's disappeared for 20 days and he's one of our top journalists. We fear the worst. We think he's been tortured so much—there's a lot of custodial torture going on. So, we feel that if he arrives in court in that condition he's in, that will create a lot of uproar in the society. And that's why he's disappeared.

So, this is what we are facing right now, them trying to crush this party is actually dismantling the democracy, the whole democratic structures, and basically the future of our country.

Staged by the corrupt to their cores Army Generals and Politicians and Blamed to Imran Khan. Proofs are out now and no one can deny them. Black smokes billows from a building allegedly set ablaze by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party activists in support of PTI leader and former Prime Minister Imran Khan during a protest against his arrest on corruption charges, in Peshawar on May 10. (It’s a Totally Bullshit and Blatant Lie) Though the Islamabad High Court initially approved his detention, the Supreme Court of Pakistan later overruled the move and he was released after two days of massive demonstrations that at times turned violent. Abdul Majeed/AFP/Getty Images

For the readers from around the world who say, "that's happening in Pakistan and that's not my problem," what would you say? Why should people around the world be invested in the fate of Pakistan and your fate, specifically? Why does it matter to them? And what are the concerns if things do not turn out well?

You know, I'm not really that worried about my own fate, because that's secondary. The main thing is the future of Pakistan, which is what I'm worried about. Because I really fear now that this path which we are being taken on, there is nothing but darkness ahead.

Because, apart from anything else, our whole democracy is being dismantled. And remember, our journey to democracy has had many hiccups, because half the time we were ruled by military dictators, each time around a decade, and once the dictator left, then we had to start all over again. And so, then the whole process will start again.

And unfortunately, we had these two families who would intermittently rule this country, they also have three times in power. And so, from that, the progress started with our media. Twenty years, as I said, our media started asserting its independence, until then it was controlled. The government controls the media. The government controls the judiciary.

So, this 20-year period by the Musharraf martial law was liberal compared to what is going on right now. Because I was in the opposition, I went to jail for a few days in Musharraf's time, but it was liberal compared to what is happening now. So then started this movement called the Lawyers' Movement, which went for independence of the justice system. And secondly, the media asserted itself. Some of the media, some of the journalists actually suffered in this time. But we progressed. So, we had moved to a point when we are actually moving towards a genuine democracy.

What has now happened is that this is basically rolled back everything. And unless there's a course correction, by which I mean, free and fair elections, it means basically, that the country has no future, because the economy without rule of law is not going to pick up. Our biggest problem is that, because out of 140 countries, Pakistan on the rule of law index is 129. And this is before this crackdown happened. Now God knows where we are, we'll be closer to Myanmar and all these countries' model because we must have slipped much further back, because then at least there was a judiciary that was protecting us. Now the judiciary is completely subdued.

I dissolved my two provincial governments because we couldn't perform, so we dissolved the assemblies, and the Constitution clearly states that the elections had to be held in 90 days. The federal government refused. After I dissolved my governments, I then went to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court ordered the elections to be on May 14. The government refused. So, if the government doesn't listen to the Supreme Court, what confidence would investors have in investing in this country?

So, the opposite has happened. Rather than any investment coming into Pakistan, there's a flight of capital. People are taking their money out of the country. In the past eight, nine months, 900 professionals have left Pakistan. I run the only specialized cancer hospital in Pakistan, a charity hospital, and it's very difficult to attract cancer specialists because they are in great demand all over the world. And any specialist can get three to four times the salary which he gets here. So, 10 percent of our consultants from our hospital are leaving. Such is this situation right now.

And this would be happening everywhere. People who can get jobs abroad, who are professionals, they are the ones you don't want to lose. So, in this hopelessness, where we are headed right now, with a bunch of guys who have failed consistently, 60 percent of the cabinet was on bail on corruption cases, the sitting prime minister was under trial for one of the biggest scandals, and General Bajwa stopped his cases because he could, and the guy [Sharif] is now the prime minister.

So, in the way we are headed right now, there is hopelessness. And the hope will come with free and fair elections.

As to your point, "Why should the world worry about us?" The world should not worry about what is happening to me. It should be worried about—and I'm talking about the Western world—the professed values of rule of law, of human rights, fundamental rights, custodial torture, democracy. All those professed values are completely being violated in Pakistan.

You can't just use these things when you want to beat up China on Hong Kong or on Uyghurs, or Russia. You have to be consistent. When they see these violations going on, they should speak out. But, having said that, countries always fix their problems from within. I don't expect any interference from outside, like they did in Afghanistan or Iraq to bring in democracy.

But condemnation of values that are professed, they should be a bit consistent in that. There's a complete silence from the U.S. government and the British government, and they're saying it's an internal matter. Since when were human rights violations and custodial torture and democracy being wound up—how can that be purely an internal matter? Because they comment about everywhere else.

An activist of corrupt and illegal ruling party Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) stomps a wall poster denouncing former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party members, in Rawalpindi on May 27. Crime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his administration have accused Khan of weaponizing his massive support base to undermine legal processes. The Wall Poster was Sponsored By the Corrupt to their Cores Army Generals and PDM Government Who are So Scared of Imran Khan that they Continuously Disobeying the Rule of Law and Constitution of Pakistan. Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images

And I have to ask if you see any parallel between what's happening to you and what's happening in the U.S. right now, given yet another indictment against our former president, the first time in history, and concerns here regarding rule of law and electoral integrity?

There's a lot of difference in what's happening in the U.S. For instance, when [former President Donald Trump] challenged his election, and he thought that there was electoral fraud, very quickly, it was proved to be wrong. It was found to be wrong immediately, because you have very good systems there. And secondly, the attack on Capitol Hill, I mean, if it happened in Pakistan, we would be the first to condemn it.

But if you are trying to say about me and Donald Trump, our worldviews and our ideologies are completely different. I am opposite to his neoliberal economics. And he thinks greed is a great thing because the more you make, the more you grow.

I'm not really against that because our country, we have a bad experience. Basically, there's a ruling elite that has captured our country. So, when I talk about real democracy and rule of law, I was inspired when, as a teenager, I went to England to study and then I played professional sport. It was the first time I discovered what is rule of law, because we had at that time martial law, you actually have rules there, you're not independent, you're not a free country. So, it's the first time I understood what rule of law meant.

And I used to compare my own society all the time, because half the time I was playing for a long time professional sport in England, and half the time I was in my own country. So, when I gave up cricket and started my politics, the main reason was rule of law. I called it Movement for Justice [the English name for Tehreek-e-Insaf], justice and rule of law. Because this elite was sucking the blood of our country. They were above law.

Either we were military, which was above law, or we had these politicians who would indulge in corruption, but they were above the law. They would not be challenged by our judiciary or institutions. And even when they were caught, they would then be given immunity from the corruption cases, which was given by what was called the NRO [National Reconciliation Ordinance] by Musharraf.

My whole movement was to bring the powerful under the law, which is the only difference between prosperous societies and poor societies. This is, as a 17-year-old, my experience of the world, the difference between prosperous countries and poor countries is just one: rule of law. If you have rule of law, you have prosperity. Because all the things, you attract investment, people feel safe.

In Pakistan's case, I mean, our people from here are investing in Dubai. Just in the last few years, $10.4 billion of property was bought by Pakistanis in Dubai, because they feel there's rule of law there. So not having rule of law means we are deprived of investment from the 10 million overseas Pakistanis. Ten million Pakistani's GDP is more than 250 million Pakistanis here. And if you could have attracted their investment, we would not have been in this problem right now. But the problem is they cannot invest in this country, because they do not trust our justice system.

And when you're 129 of 140 countries before this crackdown you can understand that they would go and invest in Dubai and Malaysia, in other countries, but they don't invest in this country. So, if we could only track their investment, Pakistan would be able to stand on its own feet. India and China when they opened up, the first investment started coming from overseas Chinese and overseas Indians.

Newsweek has reached out to Hussain Haqqani (More than 99% People of Pakistan Consider this Schizophrenic a TRAITOR) and the Pakistani Embassy to the United States for comment on allegations made throughout the interview.

Reached for comment, a U.S. State Department spokesperson referred Newsweek to deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel's remarks during a press conference Tuesday in response to Khan's allegations that Washington was manipulated into backing efforts to oust him.

"These allegations are categorically false; you have heard me say this before. Pakistani politics are a matter for the Pakistani people to decide and for them to pursue within the auspices of their own constitution and laws," Patel said at the time. "The U.S. values our longstanding cooperation with Pakistan, and we've always viewed a prosperous and democratic Pakistan as critical to U.S. interests. And that remains unchanged." (No One Believes United States. US is an Arrogant, Stubborn, Hegemonic, Liar, Double-faced, War Monger, War Criminal, Fake Democracy Preacher and a Conspirator. United States’ History is full of Bullshits and Interferences in Other’s Countries Affairs and Toppling them to Bring Puppets in Powers Who Love to Lick Its Scrotums and Accepts their Destructive Policies. Unfortunately Imran Khan Says F*** You United States!. I will run Pakistan with Independent Foreign Policies. So STFO Uncle Sam.)

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Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133: Release Date & How To Read

The release date of the upcoming Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133 is right around the corner, and fans of this exciting magical manga series are really excited to know what new spells they are going to witness next in the upcoming chapter.   Shonen Jump right now is a magazine that is infested with gag series or series that simply rely on comedy for the main appeal. Whether it be a more mediocre series like Me & Roboco or a really high-potential comedy manga like Sakamoto Days, there is no other series in the magazine right now that is as funny as consistently as Mashle: Magic and Muscles. The manga series was originally written and illustrated by the famous Japanese manga artist Hajime Komoto. The first chapter of the manga was published on January 27, 2020, and has been serialized since then in Shueisha's Weekly Shoen Jump magazine. According to last month's stats, there are about thirteen tankobon volumes got collected from Mashle: Magic and Muscles. An anime television series adaptation of the manga is also set to premiere in the next month and is being produced by the famous Japanese studio, A -1 Pictures.  Let us quickly find out more about the premise and characters of the manga series before jumping into Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133 release date.  What Is The Magical Manga 'Mashle: Magic and Muscles' All About?  For as funny as Mashle: Magic and Muscles may be, in concept, it's not that much of an original idea, nor do we think in terms of its premise it does anything revolutionary. It basically follows the formula of Mash Vandead, our protagonist, being magicless in a world that revolves around magic. We even see magicless people as something to be cold and erased from the bloodline. In most manga, it would be putting itself at a major disadvantage by having a very similar starting point to another popular series in shonen jump; yes, you guessed right, Black Clover. But due to the manga series Mashle: Magic and Muscles' approach to comedy in making fun of the tropes within these types of series and within battle shonen, it feels like a very basic premise.  After it is found out that our protagonist, Mash, is a no-liner, or basically someone that does not possess magic, his father named, Regro persecuted, attacked, and tortured by the people, all in order to find out where Mash is. Mash, of course, hearing all of this, wants to defend Regro and rushes in to fight against the mage, which seems like a dumb idea initially. This magic user builds up their magic in order to send a powerful-looking spell at Mash, and very anticlimactic, Mash simply smacks his spells down onto the ground with no trouble what so over.  This was a little glimpse of the plot and characters of the manga; now let us jump into our today's main part, Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133 release date.  When Is Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133 Release Date and Time? The upcoming Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133 are scheduled to be released on Sunday, November 20, 2022. To avoid missing Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133, mark your calendar with the time and date listed below with your local area time: - For Japan, it will release at 05:30 am (November 20, 2022) - For India, it will release at 02:00 am (November 20, 2022) - For Singapore, it will release at 04:30 am (November 20, 2022) - For Australia, it will release at 07:30 am (November 20, 2022) - For the Philippines, it will release at 04:30 am (November 20, 2022) - For the United States, it will release at 04:30 am. (November 20, 2022) - For Korea, it will release at 05:30 am. (November 20, 2022) - For Pakistan, it will release at 01:30 am. (November 20, 2022) Where Can You Read Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133 Online? America's leading manga publishing company, Viz Media, have the rights to publish and print the Mashle: Magic and Muscles Chapter 133 in both offline and online market. You can read the upcoming as well as the previous chapter of the manga on the official site of Viz Media and Shonen Jump. You can read the first three and last three chapters of Mashle: Magic and Muscles online for free of cost on these sites, but you have to pay for the rest.  Also Read: Zatch Bell! 2 Chapter 9: Release Date & How To Read Read the full article

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He has been critically acclaimed for his work Between Clay and Dust and The Story of a Widow. He has translated many Urdu novels and books of poetry including, The Adventures of Amir Hamza, Tilism-e Hoshruba, Numberdar ka Neela, and Selected Poetry of Afzal Ahmed Syed.īorn in Pakistan, Javeri is a graduate of the University of Oxford and has a PhD from the University of Leicester. He has written seven fiction novels in both Urdu and English. Her novels include The End of Innocence, Duty Free, and The Diary of a Social Butterfly.ġ0. Musharraf Ali Farooqi source: īorn in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Farooqi is an author, storyteller, and folklorist, and the founder and editor of the Urdu Thesaurus. She returned to Pakistan years later and founded the country’s first nature magazine. His novel series, Agency Rules, is a journey behind the headlines about Pakistan, questioning everything that has been said about the country, its people, and the challenges it faces.īorn and raised in Lahore, she left Pakistan at the age of 16 to attend boarding school in England and later attended Cambridge University. He’s a business executive running a marketing and brand management company by day and a writer by night. Khalid Muhammad source: īorn in Swat Valley and raised in the US, Muhammad moved back to Pakistan and fell in love with the country. Nadeem Aslam source: īorn in Pakistan in 1966 and moving to the UK as a teenager, Aslam left Biochemistry to become a writer. His first novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won a Betty Trask Award and the Authors’ Club First Novel Award. His second novel, Maps for Lost Lovers, which took 11 years to write, won the 2005 Encore Award and the 2005 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. A God in Every Stone was shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction. She has also written a non-fiction novel, Offence: The Muslim Case.ħ. Her four novels: My Feudal Lord, A Mirror to the Blind, Blasphemy, and Happy Things in Sorrow Times have gotten international acclaim.īorn in Karachi, Shamsie is the author of eight novels, including Burnt Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and translated into over 20 languages. Her first book, My Feudal Lord, caused controversy in Pakistan’s society by describing her abusive marriage to Ghulam Mustafa Khar. Tehmina Durrani source: ĭurrani is a Pakistani women’s rights activist and author. His short-story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, has been translated into sixteen languages and won The Story Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and other honors and critical acclaim.ĥ. Daniyal Mueenuddin source: īorn in Los Angeles and raised in Pakistan, Mueenuddin studied at Dartmouth and Yale Law School. The writer acknowledges the difficulties and injustices and are always set in Pakistan.Ĥ. Hanif has written for the stage and screen. Mohammad Hanif source: īorn in Okara, Hanif is a critically acclaimed author of three novels, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, and The Baloch Who Is Not Missing And Others Who Are. Grown up with polio, she is Pakistan’s leading diasporic writer and has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the subcontinent’s Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and the Parsi community.ģ. His work has been featured in many different bestseller lists and been translated into over 35 languages.īorn in Karachi, Bapsi Sidhwa is an award-winning Pakistani novelist. Mohsin Hamid source: īorn in Lahore, is the author of four novels, Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations. Here are 11 Pakistani authors who have gotten international acclaim for their beautiful work. These Pakistani writers have proved that this nation is filled with treasuring stories that are not just about the war on terror.

With Pakistan Day this weekend, it’s the perfect opportunity to celebrate our literary heroes who have made us proud all around the world with their touching stories and creativity.

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Alone Against the Taliban: Mad Dog Platoon and the Battle of OP Nevada

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by Susan Katz Keating

The Soviets called it Chernaya Gora: Black Mountain. 

That is where a unit of elite Spetsnaz forces met their deaths in Afghanistan, atop a remote observation post overlooking Kunar.

 I learned about the treacherous place in 2015, while researching an article for the Army National Guard.

The Guard’s GX Magazine had asked me to write about a soldier who’d been deployed many times, and had garnered a high number of medals. 

I asked my subject, then-Sergeant First Class John Melson, to connect me with men he served with on deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. 

I randomly called a name on the list, a decorated soldier I’ll call Gaius, because he reminds me of an ancient warrior.

Gaius told me that in 2011 he’d served alongside Melson’s platoon in Kunar Province, the dangerous northeastern section of Afghanistan, that sits on the border with Pakistan. 

Gaius and the platoon were assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Kunar, on Forward Operating Base Wright. 

Gaius said he was present on FOB Wright when members of this platoon, who called themselves the Mad Dogs, engaged in a brutal firefight against the Taliban. 

The fight took place atop an old Soviet overlook now known as Outpost Nevada. The Americans were surrounded there under heavy fire without backup. The fight raged for more than 18 hours.

“Those men were pure warriors,” Gaius told me.

A Story of Battle

For decades, I have written about warfare. I’ve delved into conflicts including the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq, and Afghanistan. 

I’ve been on the ground amid urban fighting in Northern Ireland. 

Against that framework, the 18-hour firefight caught my attention.

I asked Gaius to elaborate. 

While he recounted the battle, I took six pages of notes. 

Finally, as I turned to the seventh page, I set down my pen and simply listened.

I was captivated; not only by the tale Gaius told, but also by his tone and his insights. This warfighter had a catch to his voice. 

He kept stopping to compose himself. 

He clearly was moved by what the soldiers endured, and by how they conducted themselves.

The battle took place while the Americans found themselves on “Desperate Ground,” a phrase coined by the ancient Chinese tactician Sun Tzu, who applied the term to situations where soldiers have no option but to fight without delay. It is a fight to the death.

Eventually I would learn that the battle of OP Nevada played out on multiple fronts and in multiple forms that went beyond a single firefight.

The story involved a disparate group of soldiers. 

Some were seasoned combat veterans. 

Others were new to military service. 

Overall, they included a former nightclub manager, a pizza delivery man, a competitive skateboarder, a used car salesman, a mysterious veteran rumored to have served in the French Foreign Legion, and a passel of self-described “broken toys.” 

Their platoon sergeant, Melson, was a convicted felon who spent time in prison after being charged with kidnap and assault. 

The men served in the Army National Guard, whose initials – NG – have sometimes been the butt of jokes that the letters stand for No Good.

As the daughter of a Guardsman who fought in Korea, though, and as the author of numerous articles about the Army National Guard in combat, I knew that the label was misplaced.

The Virginia Guard was part of the first frontal assault on Normandy, storming Omaha Beach. 

The California Guard – my own father among them – relieved the beleaguered 24th Infantry Division in Korea.

Now, while writing for GX Magazine, I learned about a new group of “NG” warriors: the men from the mountaintop battle. 

These were soldiers from the Massachusetts National Guard, whose predecessors fought the earliest engagements of the American Revolution, at Lexington and Concord. 

These latter day fighters were soldiers from Second Company’s “Dog Platoon” of the 1-182 Infantry.

Their legacy in hand, the Mad Dogs in Afghanistan marched in the footpaths of warriors from years gone by: Macedonians under Alexander the Great; Mongols under Genghis Khan; and Soviets directed by Leonid Brezhnev.

Like Alexander before them, the Mad Dogs met a determined enemy in Kunar. Like the shock troops of Spetsnaz, the Mad Dogs endured hell while isolated. Atop the same remote outpost where Spetsnaz fell to their attackers, the Mad Dogs were surrounded and outnumbered. 

They ran out of food, water, and ammo. And as with Spetsnaz, the Mad Dogs’ ordeal unfolded under the radar and slipped into obscurity, forgotten by all but the participants.

The men weren’t merely forgotten; they also were undocumented.

While researching the battle, I contacted the Army’s 25th Infantry Division, the element in charge of Kunar at the time. 

The historian there told me the timeframe I asked about had been an extraordinarily busy period for the 25th. 

The division then had been embroiled in Operation Hammer Down, aimed against Taliban operations in Kunar. 

Most of the files from then pertained to that action. 

The historian found no records even referencing the 18-hour firefight on OP Nevada.

The Massachusetts National Guard, for its part, similarly came up empty – and then some. I contacted the Military Division for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to ask for copies of After Action Reports pertaining to OP Nevada. Leonid Kondratiuk, a retired colonel who is Director of Historical Services there, told me After Action Reports did not exist, period.

“The Mass Guard doesn’t write AAR’s,” Kondratiuk said. “No one in the Guard does. They just don’t write them.”

“That’s Not Combat”

Even the former Marine Corps four-star General and later Defense Secretary James Mattis, who oversaw military operations in Afghanistan at the time, drew a blank when I asked him about the event that occurred under his watch.

Mattis hadn’t heard of the Battle of OP Nevada.

Nor did he believe that it took place.

“How many Americans died?” Mattis asked me.

“None,” I said.

“That’s not combat,” Mattis said. “I know combat, and I can tell you, if no Americans died up there, that wasn’t combat.”

Make no mistake, though. 

When these National Guardsmen found themselves on Desperate Ground, they fought. Isolated from support, abandoned to fate, surrounded by relics of Spetsnaz ghosts and attacked by a relentless enemy, they fought. 

The extended slugfest was so brutal, so primal, so raw, that the Taliban afterwards refused to re-engage.

In the coming days, I will publish an account of what happened in those 18 hours atop OP Nevada.

As Gaius told me: “What those Americans did up there is pure heroism. 

They were stunningly courageous. I will never forget them.”

Neither will I.

Susan Katz Keating is the publisher and editor-in-chief at Soldier of Fortune. Her book on the Mad Dogs in Kunar soon will be available for pre-order.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE!

American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a trail blazer in her field. She was well-known for her remarkable photojournalism.

She photographed victims of the Dust Bowl, she was the first American photographer allowed in the Soviet Union. She also traveled to Germany, Austria, Austria and Czechoslovakia under the Nazis, the partition of India & Pakistan, and the list goes on.

At age 32 her photographs of the Fort Peck Dam appeared in the cover and an photo spread inside of the first issue of LIFE magazine! Certainly not her only story in LIFE magazine.

Here we see “Oil Tanks, Standard Oil Co., Ohio”, 1930’s, a gelatin silver print during on top of a Jean-Michel Frank cabinet in an early GGD project for a photography collector.

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Experience you Must Have While Visiting Rajasthan

Rajasthan, formerly known as the Land of the Rajputs or Kings, is the largest state in the Republic of India. It covers an area of ​​342,239 sq km which is 10.4% of India. However despite its huge size it is covered by the great Indian desert, Thar. The desert of Thar flows parallel to the Valley of Sutlej-Indus River. Being at the forefront of Indian civilization, the state of Rajasthan has seen the era of kings in this way, describing it as "the land of kings".

Rajasthan has a wonderful display of art and architecture, courtesy of being a princely state. Each individual state of Rajasthan has its own unique style of architecture and art which makes it one of the most culturally diverse places in the world. In this article we will list 7 popular places to visit in Rajasthan.

Jaipur

The state capital, Jaipur is also the largest city in the state of Rajasthan. It was founded in 1727 by Sawai Jai Singh II, a Kachwaha Rajput ruler who was the ruler of Amber. Also known by the nickname 'Pink City of India' due to the distinctive orange or pink color of the buildings. Well-organized streets and detailed and artistic architecture make it one of the top tourist destinations.

Jaipur has a lot to offer the most average tourist. Jaipur's forts, monuments, temples, gardens, museums and huge market places bring tourists from all over the world to experience food, fun and exhilaration in this wonderful town. Jaipur is also home to a huge number. Arts and crafts with over 20 unique features.

Udaipur

While in some texts, it is referred to as the Venice of the East; the city of Udaipur is known by its common moniker, the city of lakes. The city was the capital of the Sisodia Rajputs of Mewar and is famous for its palaces which exemplify the beauty of Rajput style architecture. Udaipur was founded in 1553 by Sisodia Rajput ruler Maharana Uday Singh II. The Mewar Rajputs founded the city to relocate their capital from Chittor to a safer location. Today, most of the palaces have been converted into hotels, thus attracting a huge number. Crowds of tourists in this city.

Located in the foothills of the Aravalli Hills, the state of Udaipur is a unique place. Apart from its various palaces, forts, market places and various temples are also the reason for its popularity. The cities are well-organized and the people are hospitable, the place is not only famous for its palaces and monuments, Udaipur city has a lot to offer its visitors.

Jodhpur

Jodhpur, the second largest city in Rajasthan, is also the second most populous city in Rajasthan after Jaipur. The city was founded in 1459 by Rao Jodha Singh, a Rathod Rajput ruler of Marwar. The city was established as the new capital of Marwar after the fall of the previous capital Mandor. Jodhpur is also called the Sun City because it enjoys bright sunny weather all year round. Strategically, it is considered to be the most important city of West Rajasthan as it is located at a distance of only 250 kilometers from the Indo-Pakistan border.

Also, as it is located in the center of Rajasthan, Jodhpur is also an important tourist destination. Jodhpur has been listed many times in various travel magazines and documentaries and topped the list of the most extraordinary place to stay in 2014 alone. The various hill forts, palaces and the old fortified city are just a few of the crowds. This wonderful city has to offer.

Jaisalmer

Properly named "Golden City", which comes from its view during the day, the city of Jaisalmer is located in the middle of the Thar Desert. The city was founded by the Bhati Rajput ruler Maharaval Jaisal Singh in 1156 AD. The city gets its name from the golden sands of the Thar Desert and the same golden sandstone that is used in the city's architecture. The city is a popular tourist destination due to its magnificent architecture and various arts and crafts that are unique to the region. The city thrives on tourism, and for a huge number can be called home away from home.

The distinctive feature of the city of Jaisalmer is its architecture. It was built as a walled city making it one of the largest castles in the world. You want to pack a lot of paperbacks and about 3-4 days to fully enjoy life in this city. The fort has numerous restaurants serving Italian, French, and local cuisine. Visit during the months of November and December and you will fully enjoy this castle city.

Bikaner

The city of Bikaner was founded in 1488 by the Rathod Rajput ruler Rao Bika. Rao Bika was the son of Rathod ruler Rao Jodha who founded Jodhpur. The land was usurped from the rival Jat rulers of the time. However, despite the ancient city having seen many wars in the past, today Bikaner is another major tourist destination and is famous for its desserts and snacks. The place is known for its forts and food.

The various arts and crafts of this place are also unique, especially the intricately carved windows which are called windows. If you want to experience the authentic taste of Rajasthani cuisine then this is a city we would personally recommend you to visit. The various fairs held in Bikaner also attract huge numbers. Visitors from India and around the world. Famous temples like Karni Mata and Laxminath Temple etc. are also worth seeing.

Mount Abu

The place boasts of being the only hill station in the desert state of Rajasthan. Mount Abu is located in the Aravalli Range and is a part of Sirohi district in Rajasthan. Apart from being a secluded place from the scorching sun for the people of Rajasthan and Gujarat, this place has a lot of historical and religious significance. Mount Abu was known as Mount Arbuda, mentioned in the Hindu epic Mahabharata and is the place where the great sage Vashishta retired. The hill station is home to many ancient sites and temples which are frequented by many pilgrims from all over India along with many forts and lakes.

The place is a heavenly retreat for the sun-scorched people of Rajasthan, with its lush green surroundings and various picnic spots. Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary, Trevor's Crocodile Park, Nakki Lake and the most famous Dilwara Jain Temple are located here. Apart from this, the remains of Achalgarh fort built in the 17th century can also be visited. The surrounding environment and the cool and pleasant weather make it a place like the desert state of Rajasthan.

Ajmer

Ajmer is surrounded by Aravalli Mountains and is a city woven in both history and culture. It is located near Pushkar, a major Hindu pilgrimage site and home to the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. This makes it a unique pilgrimage site for both Hindus and Muslims. In addition to being a pilgrimage site, it is also home to many fascinating historical sites and therefore welcomes tourists from all over the world.

Rajasthan is a wonderful place to visit and full of unique culture, imperial history and people who have long survived in the rugged desert. If you want to explore Rajasthan, but aren't sure which cities and experiences are best for you, we can help! At Asia Highlights, we specialize in making beautiful trips tailored to the individual needs of each guest.

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In a candid conversation with the Star, Manji said “Schitt’s Creek” producers did not instruct him as to how Ray should sound.

“It is a very slight Indian accent — somebody who was probably raised in Canada, but probably was born in India or Pakistan,” he said from his home in Los Angeles.

“I don’t regret that because I think it actually works for Ray. He wasn’t like everybody else in that town. He was from somewhere else.”

Manji said he’s OK with viewers questioning his choices, but rather than focus on accents, he said, critics could ask why his character didn’t have a more fully developed story, like a relationship or a family.

“If you want to criticize something, do that,” he said. “We need to have three-dimensional characters.”

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At the start of Rizwan Manji’s acting career in the 1990s, the only roles available to him were those playing convenience store clerks and cab drivers. The parts usually required him to fake an Indian accent — just for laughs.

“We would joke about it. ‘This is so offensive, this is so offensive,’” recalls the Toronto native. “It’s not like we didn’t know.”

More than two decades later, Manji’s grin-and-bear-it perseverance has paid off. At 46, Manji now boasts a long — and diverse — list of TV and film credits. In September, he joined castmates from the hit CBC comedy series “Schitt’s Creek” in celebration as the show nabbed a record-breaking nine Emmy Awards.

That doesn’t mean, however, he still doesn’t grapple with questions about his acting choices.

While “Schitt’s Creek,” about a wealthy family that loses its fortune and is forced to move to a backwater town, won raves for its messages of inclusivity and positive queer representation, a segment of viewers took to social media to criticize Manji’s character, Ray Butani, the town’s bumbling jack of all trades — who speaks with an accent.

What irked them was that Ray, one of the few recurring people of colour on the show, seemed like a caricature — a rehash of the stereotypical, emasculated South Asian male. They also complained that Manji’s accent came across as “cringey.”

“Why go to the effort of writing in a character with an Indian name, played by an Indian actor, whose main personality trait is that he is stupid and has an accent?” Rishi Maharaj, a Port Hardy, B.C., engineer and avid TV viewer, wrote on Twitter days after the show’s Emmy sweep.

Across North America’s TV and film industry, there is broad consensus about the need to fight stereotypes and offensive tropes in casting. But the debate among actors of colour over whether they should fake accents remains fraught.

Some Hollywood actors, such as Aziz Ansari and John Cho, have reportedly turned down roles, citing the history of Hollywood playing up accents for laughs. (Think Mickey Rooney’s portrayal of Mr. Yunioshi in the 1961 romantic comedy “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” complete with taped eyelids, buck teeth and cartoonish accent).

They worry that parts requiring them to speak with accents do nothing to help the cause of minority actors who are often typecast in secondary roles or as sidekicks, and who continue to be under-represented on TV and film.

Others say it’s important to represent linguistic diversity and see no harm portraying characters who speak in broken English, as long as their accent is not the butt of a joke and in keeping with a character’s backstory.

In a candid conversation with the Star, Manji said “Schitt’s Creek” producers did not instruct him as to how Ray should sound.

“It is a very slight Indian accent — somebody who was probably raised in Canada, but probably was born in India or Pakistan,” he said from his home in Los Angeles.

“I don’t regret that because I think it actually works for Ray. He wasn’t like everybody else in that town. He was from somewhere else.”

Manji said he’s OK with viewers questioning his choices, but rather than focus on accents, he said, critics could ask why his character didn’t have a more fully developed story, like a relationship or a family.

“If you want to criticize something, do that,” he said. “We need to have three-dimensional characters.”

The character that has generated one of the most heated debates in recent years when it comes to accents is Apu, the Indian-American shopkeeper on the long-running animated series “The Simpsons.” Until recently, the thick-accented character was voiced by actor Hank Azaria, who is white.

In 2017, American comedian Hari Kondabolu came out with a documentary, “The Problem With Apu,” in which he pressed the case that the show fomented racial stereotypes about Indian people.

In interviews at the time, Kondabolu shared that, as a kid, Apu was “the only Indian we had on TV” and that he was happy for “any representation.” But then on the playground, he had to deal with kids mimicking Apu’s accent.

In the documentary, he gets Dana Gould, a former writer on the show, to admit, “There are accents, that by their nature, to white Americans, sound funny. Period.”

With criticism mounting, Azaria, who had voiced Apu for three decades, announced he was stepping away from the role, telling the New York Times earlier this year: “Once I realized that that was the way this character was thought of, I just didn’t want to participate in it anymore.”

There is growing sensitivity among artists, writers, directors and producers to avoid stereotypes and invest in “fully humanized, realized characters,” Steven Eng, an actor and voice and speech instructor at New York University, told the Star.

“There’s certainly been a whole history — that I don’t think any of us can deny — in film and television and the theatre where characters were stereotyped,” he said. “I think there’s so much more awareness, so much more determination to not go that route.”

But even “groundbreaking” shows, such as “Kim’s Convenience” and the recently cancelled “Fresh Off the Boat,” which were heralded for elevating Asian-Canadian and Asian-American visibility and immigrant experiences, have not escaped criticism, accused by some viewers of employing storylines and accents that do not ring true.

Cast members, in turn, leapt to the defence of their shows — and their accents.

“Some people are like, ‘Oh, stereotypical accent!’” Constance Wu, lead actress on “Fresh Off the Boat,” told Time magazine regarding her character’s Taiwanese accent. “An accent is an accent. If there were jokes written about the accent, then that would certainly be harmful. But there aren’t jokes written about it. It’s not even talked about. It’s just a fact of life: immigrants have accents.”

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, the lead actor in “Kim’s Convenience” told Maclean’s his character’s Korean accent is “part of who he is, but it isn’t the joke.”

“Yes, we’re in the entertainment field, and we will mine some of that because it is situational humour. You will get a point where we’ll say, ‘Here’s where some fun can be made, playing with the accent, and his inability and people mishearing what he says.’ But at the same time, that’s not all it is,” he said.

Jimmy O. Yang, who starred in the HBO series “Silicon Valley” and whose character spoke with a heavy Chinese accent, told Huffington Post the key is to portray immigrants with humanity.

“It’s maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together,” he said. “I take offence (when people don’t go for parts with accents) ― it’s like saying, ‘I’m better than my immigrant brother with an accent.’”

Yang added he drew inspiration from his mom and relatives in Shanghai to develop his accent for the show. “It’s not just a (lousy) impression of a Cantonese Bruce Lee accent.”

Still, some actors have declared outright they will not do it.

“For me, personally, any time I’ve been asked to do that, I feel like — it feels like it’s making fun of people that have that accent if I do it and don’t have that voice,” comedian Aziz Ansari told NPR in 2015, years before he faced a public allegation of sexual misconduct.

“It feels like you’re doing it so white people can laugh at Indian people,” he said at the time.

That’s kind of how Maharaj felt watching Ray on “Schitt’s Creek.”

“I did find it cringey. The first thought that came to mind was it reminded me of Apu in ‘The Simpsons,’” he told the Star.

In The Problem With Apu, South Asian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu confronts his long-standing “nemesis” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon – better known as the Indian convenience store owner on The Simpsons. Creator and star Kondabolu discusses how this controversial caricature was created, burrowed its way into the hearts and minds of Americans, and continues to exist – intact – nearly three decades later. Featuring interviews with Aziz Ansari, Kal Penn, Whoopi Goldberg, W. Kamau Bell, Aasif Mandvi, Hasan Minhaj, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Aparna Nancherla

“To me what it sounds like is what a person from Saskatoon thinks a person from India sounds like. ... I’m sure he could’ve been a funny part of that show without an accent.”

Maharaj wasn’t alone. Arif Silverman, an actor and playwright in New York, posted a lengthy Facebook post in October sharing his conflicted feelings about the show.

“Schitt’s Creek has become one of my all-time favourite shows. But they did their South Asian characters dirty,” he wrote.

“Especially Ray, who plays directly into the racist South Asian trope of being an emasculated, goofy buffoon who no one takes seriously, not least in part because of his accent.”

Silverman told the Star Ray’s accent seemed “part of the joke” and struck him as a “betrayal” from a show that preached inclusivity and whose main romance was a gay love story.

“I’m half South Asian — my mother is from Bangladesh. … And so I think a lot about representation of South Asians in the media,” he said. “If you’re really going to talk about inclusivity it can’t be at anyone’s expense.”

Manji says he faced a lot of struggles as a brown actor at the start of his career.

Back then, he was often pigeonholed into narrow roles, such as the cabbie or 7-Eleven store clerk. One hundred per cent of his roles required him to fake a South Asian accent.

“It was very strictly, like, the joke was on the accent,” he said.

But he accepted the parts because he needed the work.

He did draw a line with one type of role.

“I’m Muslim, so I was more the guy who was like, ‘I’m not being the terrorist.’”

There was one time, however, when he auditioned to play an Islamic Studies professor on the show “24.” He was given limited information about the character. It turned out he was a bomb maker.

But the money was too good to pass up. He took the part.

“I rationalized it in my head, ‘Oh, it’s season 8, and they have good Muslim characters. … I don’t know if I made the right decision,” he said.

“To be clear, I’m OK with being the bad guy. I’d love to play the bad guy. It’s just when it’s this kind of thing where you’re screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ and bombing people.”

In 2010, Manji was cast in the short-lived NBC sitcom “Outsourced” set in an Indian call centre. He and his castmates employed accents, which some critics derided for lack of authenticity.

It’s fine if people want to criticize the quality of the accents, he said, but it wouldn’t have made sense for these characters not to have accents.

“The show was shooting in America about living in India. I don’t know what the other option was,” he said, adding that he channelled his father in developing the accent for that show.

Another thing to keep in mind is that accents have to be understandable to North American audiences, Manji said. For instance, during the filming of the movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” Manji, who played a Pakistani colonel, said he settled on a “sweet spot” where his accent “sounds foreign” but is “not so thick that it becomes comedic or unintelligible.”

Manji said he did not have to audition for “Schitt’s Creek” but was offered the role of Ray, the town’s real estate agent, travel agent, photographer and Christmas tree salesman.

When he went for his first table read in Toronto, he’d had no prior discussion with the show’s writers or producers about what Ray would sound like.

Because most of his demo tape consisted of his work on “Outsourced,” Manji assumed that was the kind of voice producers were looking for. He went with a slightly toned-down version.

“Afterwards, I went up to Dan (Levy, the show’s co-creator) and said, ‘Hey just want to check in.’ He said, ‘I love what you did. It was funny.’ That ended up being the character for six years.”

Maharaj says he can’t help but feel Manji was selling himself short — playing to what he thought “a white audience might expect or respond more favourably to” to get the job. He likens it to job applicants of Asian descent who anglicize their names on resumes.

“I’m encouraged to hear he had agency, that they weren’t like, ‘We need you to do the accent,’” he said.

“I’d feel better if they were asking him to do a British accent or Brooklyn accent because if you’re doing this Indian accent and the character is comedic, it is nonetheless playing into that trope.”

Levy, who is also from Toronto, declined an interview request. Instead, he released a statement through his publicist.

“Ray was conceived as a character of Indian decent which we cast with Canadian-born actor Rizwan Manji, who is of Indian decent. No accent was called for in the casting or specified in the scripts,” it said.

“The thoughtful choices that Rizwan made in his portrayal in the audition room perfectly encapsulated the warmth and the energy of Ray. All characters on our show were created with love, respect and humanity. It has been gratifying to have these intentions reflected through the overwhelming audience support for these characters. That said, I welcome any perspectives that encourage conversations about diversity, especially in entertainment.”

Despite what critics might think, Manji said he has felt more empowered in recent years to make creative decisions about his characters.

Manji, who had a role in NBC’s musical comedy “Perfect Harmony,” which was cancelled this year, said when he was approached about playing the part of a pastor, he was the one who initiated the idea of giving the character a foreign accent.

Because the character was raised by missionaries, it wouldn’t have made sense for him to not have one.

Conversely, when he was asked a couple years ago to read for a pilot for a dramatic series in which his character was a Muslim father he told the casting director he didn’t want to do an accent.

“I said, ‘You know what? I’d rather not. That’s not going to excite me about this part,’” he said.

“I ended up getting the job. I found my voice.” (The pilot never made it to series).

Manji, who guesses about 60 per cent of his roles in more recent years have involved accent work, says remarks by actors who refuse to do accents are “dangerous” because they could end up limiting the types of roles available to minority actors.

His worry is casting directors will go to India in search of authentic accents, overlooking North American-born actors, like him.

“I’m already marginalized.”

Nobody fusses when Meryl Streep performs with an accent, he adds.

Ishani Nath, a freelance entertainment and lifestyle journalist in Toronto, says anytime she sees an accented character who also provides comedic relief, it raises a bit of a red flag.

But she’s hesitant to criticize actors for taking those roles, knowing that opportunities are not easy to come by.

“I’m way more interested in criticizing writers, producers, (and asking): Why are you asking for these roles to be accented? … Is there an actual reason and backstory?”

Nath says she is starting to notice deeper conversations about how different cultures are represented on screen and what nuances can be added to make characters more complex.

She says a good example of this is the hit movie “Crazy Rich Asians,” whose actors exhibited a range of regional Asian accents.

“It’s important to note that the problem with accent roles isn’t the accents themselves — plenty of characters in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ have accents, but no one has the exaggerated or generic ‘Asian’ accent that has historically been played for laughs in Hollywood,” she wrote in a 2018 article in Flare.

Jhanik Bullard, a writer and member of BIPOC TV & Film, a collective of Black, Indigenous and people of colour working in Canada’s entertainment industry, says it is no longer acceptable for characters to have accents “just because.”

“It should actually have an authentic origin as to why this character sounds the way they sound,” he said.

Audiences are also not as forgiving as they may have been in the 1990s if the accent sounds botched or inauthentic.

What is encouraging, he says, is that more doors are being opened for people of colour to tell their stories and there are more platforms for those stories to be to told.

To that end, Manji says he and his partners have initiated a handful of projects that are in various stages of development. One is a show about a Muslim guy who becomes mayor of a major city. Another is a sitcom about a “normal Muslim family” — something that “resembles me more.”

Does the character he envision for himself speak with an accent?

“Since I want it to be closer to me, then I would say not.”

#definitely a good discussion about ray and about riz's other roles and about south asian rep in general #schitt's creek #schitts creek #rizwan manji #ray butani #press #toronto star #long post

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list of articles, books, reports, etc. related* to queer and specifically trans/hijra/khwaja sera people in south asia

Muhammad Hameed Shahid, mitti adam khati hae

Muhammad Sheeraz Dasti, sasa

Syed Asad Ali Anvery, Toofan Se Pehley: Safar-i-Europe Ki Diary

‘Language, Gender and Identity: The Case of Kotis in Lucknow’, Ila Nagar

‘Intertextual Sexuality: Parodies of Class, Identity and Desire in Liminal Delhi’, Kira Hall

‘A Sociolinguistic Study of Od: The Language of Pakhiwass of Rawalpindi Region’, Shamailur Rehman

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41718082

Sheeraz, Muhammad, and Ayaz Afsar. "Farsi: An Invisible But Loaded Weapon for the Emerging Hijraism in Pakistan." Kashmir Journal of Language Research 14, no. 2 (2011).

Gopinath, Swapna. 2020. "Gendered Spaces Captured in Cultural Representations: Conceptualising the Indian Experience in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" Humanities 9, no. 1: 2.

https://doi.org/10.3390/h9010002

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/09/07/india.eye.eunuch/

https://www.indianruminations.com/articles/being-it-in-mahesh-dattanis-seven-steps-around-the-fire-susan-lobo-mumbai/

https://www.indianruminations.com/interviews/the-grey-shades-of-schools-formation-and-reproduction-of-social-class-identities/

https://kinnarsamaj.blogspot.com/2013/12/queer-language-author-looks-into-lives.html

https://megaphone.southwestern.edu/2019/03/21/the-steps-to-freedom/

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/07/13/passion-rage-of-arundhati-roy/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/sep/07/i-wasnt-made-to-be-raped-and-ridiculed-trans-woman-makes-a-stand-in-pakistan

https://devdutt.com/articles/the-hijra-legacy/

https://www.yovizag.com/visakhapatnam-hijras-story/

https://www.law-order.org/post/the-third-gender-a-look-into-hijras-of-india

https://thetempest.co/2018/01/29/news/campaign-fighting-transphobia/

https://www.academia.edu/39087963/LGBT_Activism_in_South_Asia

https://www.worldpress.org/Asia/845.cfm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/23/why-terms-like-transgender-dont-work-for-indias-third-gender-communities/

https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2016/11/demonetisation-woes-of-hijras-and-transgender-persons/

https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2018/may/29/hyderabad-crossdressers-living-on-their-nerves-1820739.html

https://brewminate.com/the-hijras-of-ancient-to-modern-india/

https://www.thequint.com/videos/this-diwali-revisit-ramayana-with-ram-transgender-devotees

https://www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/secrets-of-the-hijra-indias-little-known-transsexuals

https://petervas.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/hijra/

https://direct.mit.edu/dram/article/63/1%20(241)/141/8892/The-Hijra-Clap-in-Neoliberal-Hands-Performing

https://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/queer-language/article5407840.ece

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/i-wouldnt-wish-fate-my-enemies South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Special -Reference) 1st Ed by Peter Claus (Editor), Sarah Diamond (Editor), Margaret Mills (Editor)

*mostly related; some of these are just related to gender/culture in south asia in general 

#trans #reference #have not read #hijra #khwaja sera #personal

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MINA SHAFIQ (née SHARIF) is THIRTY YEARS OLD and a SOCIALITE amongst THE SACRED TWENTY-EIGHT in LONDON. She looks remarkably like AIYSHA HART and considers herself NEUTRAL. She is currently OPEN.

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A beautiful young witch with a healing heart, Mina Shafiq is in part defined by her epic love story that sadly ended in sorrow. Born in Bloomsbury to travel authors ISABELLA WESTWOOD and ABDULLAH SHARIF, Mina was raised in a privileged environment between her family townhouse in London and beautiful hotels around the globe. Mina’s early years were filled with adventure, visiting the beautiful jungles of India and the ruins and misty mountains of her father’s native country of Saudi Arabia. It was likely a result of her upbringing that Mina had a curious nature. Always looking to see what was round the corner and planning for her next adventure, Mina liked to live her life in the moment and never wanted the high of a new discovery to end. Sitting on their campsites or in luxurious hotels, Mina would be surrounded by maps and travel guides, prepared to list the history of the animals they would see on their visits and checking each one off in her copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them which she clutched closely to her chest on all her various adventures. By the time Mina was ready to attend school she had seen over a third of the globe, so Hogwarts didn’t quite have the effect on her that it had on other children. Mina was excited by the great outdoors and plants and magical creatures she could only read about in books. The hippogriffs and mandrake roots who had a home at Hogwarts were not different nor interesting to Mina and so she spent the majority of her time at school dreaming of far off places she longed to see. 

Mina’s zest for life and dreamy personality quickly attracted a close friendship with PRIMROSE HOOKUM, who longed to get away from Hogwarts and begin her own fashion line. In the cold common room in the Ravenclaw Tower, Primrose and Mina would whisper long into the night about their dreams and ambitions, Primrose’s nose in a fashion magazine and Mina’s in a book of maps covered in doodles and notes which detailed where she longed to go after she finished school. Long nights spent giggling and plotting soon attracted the action of other Ravenclaw students, the two girls striking a friendship with ALBERT JORKINS and who often sought the company of books over people and was happy to sit on the velvet sofas snuggled in a blanket reading a copy of Virginia Woolf. Whilst Mina had explored a great deal of the magical world, she had seen virtually none of the Muggle one, her scrapbooks were filled with photographs of giant magical waterfalls and ancient castles in thick jungles lost to Muggles- but cities like Paris, Budapest and Hong Kong were a mystery to Mina she longed to explore.Her parents encouraged Mina to follow her heart and fill in the gaps in her knowledge of the world and unlike most parents with standing in Wizarding Society were not pushing Mina to find love or draw up contracts, she was young and ambitious and they wanted her to see the world before she settled down. 

After exploring Europe and The British Isles, at twenty, Mina packed a suitcase and made the long voyage to The Middle East, longing to better explore a part of the world she knew relatively well, ticking off places on her bucket list she had never been before. Map in hand and notebook in her pocket, Mina was exploring the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, in search of the coniferous forest which thrived within the area. Mina had been walking for some time when she finally stopped to ask for directions and RAYAN SHAFIQ was more than happy to help her. A fellow British wizard, Mina was surprised to see him in such a remote part of the region, until he revealed his extended family lived close by who he had been visiting for the summer. As they walked side by side, Mina did most of the talking, ready to tell Rayan about her ideas to travel the world and write and create. Aside from London and Pakistan, Rayan hadn’t travelled much. His family were a member of The Sacred Twenty-Eight and were focused more on him marrying well ready to take over the estate which his elder brother had no interest in. Mina wasn’t sure of the exact moment she fell in love with Rayan, but by the time she had reached Jahaz Banda, she had realised she was more engrossed in their meeting than she had been with the beautiful meadow and mountains she had come to explore. 

For the rest of her time in Pakistan, Rayan was by her side. A writer of poetry, as Mina would take photographs and write about the things she saw, unbeknownst to Mina, Rayan was writing about her. Pouring his heart out in prose as he fell in love with Mina as they swam in beautiful lakes and danced in the moonlight. Before they left Pakistan the two were married in the Hunza Valley in a small ceremony where they declared their love for one another and explored the rest of The Middle East as man and wife. When the pair returned back to London a year later, both Mina’s parents and Rayan’s were outraged the pair had gotten married. Mina’s parents believed she was too young to have married someone like Rayan and not know what would be expected of her, whilst Rayan’s had wanted more for the future heir of their family than a witch who didn’t want to settle down and play ball. The Shafiq family were far more traditional and lavish than Mina’s, with his mother holding a seat in the Pura Sorores Society which she had designs on Mina joining. Not wanting to sacrifice her dreams, she and Rayan made the joint decision to leave London and continue travelling, much to the anger of their parents. The pair lived a happy life, seeing the world and making memories until just under three months ago. As they were exploring South America, Rayan suddenly became unwell and was admitted to hospital. Much to Mina’s horror and despair Rayan died three days later, the cause of which was determined as Scrofungulus Disease. 

Mina was heartbroken. Until she had met Rayan, Mina hadn’t much thought about love or longed for romance but something about the death of Rayan had broken Mina. Lying in her bed in Brazil alone she stayed, surrounded by the poems he had written about her and kept to himself all those years before and wondered if she would ever be truly happy again. Mina was very prepared to stay like that, alone in their little studio apartment in Rio De Janeiro where she’d sit in her red wedding gown and read the poems until she felt tired enough to sleep. Mina was only thirty years old when her husband passed away and ZAHRA SHARIF and Mina’s parents were not about to let their daughter slip away from them when she needed them most.Packing up her things, Mina returned to London and bore the awkwardness of seeing her husband’s family. His parents were unkind to her, but Mina knew from the poems he had written that he had silently longed for them to be closer. Only his twin sister SHAHLYLA SHAFIQ was kind to her, aiming each day to pull her sister-in-law up out of bed with Zahra and try to find a new ray of light in the world that made the beginning the day anywhere other than her bed in Bloomsbury worth it. The battering from her husband’s family didn’t help matters. LARA SHAFIQ was her biggest critic. firmly believing that Mina had not been good enough for her brother, blaming her for taking him away and his death. 

Lost with how to make amends with them, Mina joined the ranks of the other Shafiq women and accepted a position in the Pura Sorores Society helping to plan the upcoming season of parties and balls. Mina had little interest in forcing people into marriage or deciding on the right shade of blue for floral arrangements, but had gotten good at feigning interest with Shahlyla by her side who created enough melodrama for her mother and sister to play with on purpose to leave Mina alone. Getting over the loss of Rayan was hard and she was grateful to have family by her side. It would take a long time for her to put the pieces of herself back together again, but Mina knew she was strong and was prepared to live life to the full for the pair of them. Day to day life had been becoming easier until Shahlyla arrived home one day to a poem on her doorstep. Written in Rayan’s hand, seeing a new poem dragged up a lot of old pain for Mina, though the departure from his usual beautiful prose caught their attention. It was a much darker poem than she’d read of his before, shrouded in death and mystery that alluded to something greater than himself. For now Mina tells herself that she has misunderstood the meaning, that her husband died of an illness she couldn’t have foreseen... but something in the words seem as though Rayan knew death was coming, giving new light and new pain to Mina’s life she isn’t sure she can bear. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Blood Status → Pure-Blood

Pronouns → She/Her

Identification → Cis Female

Sexuality  → Up to Roleplayer

Relationship Status → Widowed

Previous Education →  Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Ravenclaw)

Societies → Pura Sorores

Family → Rayan Shafiq (deceased husband), Lara Shafiq (sister-in-law), Ejlaal Shafiq (brother-in-law), Shahlyla Shafiq (sister-in-law/close friend), Zahra Sharif (cousin), Elizabeth Westwood (cousin), Louisa Westwood (cousin) 

Connections  → Primrose Jorkins (best friend), Albert Jorkins (best friend), Fredrick Weasley (close friend), Benjy Fenwick (close friend), Michael Thomas (close friend), Tomas Wood (close friend), Elezar Smith (close friend), Tiberius McLaggen (friend), Olivia Promfrey (friend), Myrine Zabini (friend), Ishaan Patil (friend)

Future Information → N/A

MINA SHAFIQ IS A LEVEL 4 WITCH.

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Hello!

Do know of any reptile that could comfortably live in a 24-18-18 inch terraria?

My corn used to live in it but she now lives in a 4-2-2 feet terrarium. Same with my bp. I would like another reptile but I can’t put another 4-2-2 feet enclosure in my room.

Ah, yeah, the space can become an issue pretty quickly with our hobby (I've had to seriously downsize my furniture to make room for vivariums)

There are a few animals I could see in a terrarium that size, so I made a little list:

1. Mourning Geckos

Probably the obvious choice, mourning geckos are cute, small and don't need that much space, meaning they should do fine in a 24x18x18. There are, of course, no perfect pets, so they have downsides, too: they're mostly display animals, since they are a little too small to handle without danger to their little limbs. Also, they reproduce asexually, so they will very likely have babies. These babies will need a special enclosure, since they're so small they'd escape a regular enclosure easily. You can build that enclosure yourself, as demonstrated in this video by Clint's reptiles (https://youtu.be/nviYe3h-J0w) , but you will have to think about where the little ones will go once they've grown.

Additional information:

https://youtu.be/L4CHEge5wlc

https://www.reptilesmagazine.com/listings/lizard-species/mourning-gecko/

2. Baby Fire skinks (or other small skinks)

Now, with those, I will have to add that you will have to upgrade them to a bigger enclosure eventually, since they will only do well in this setup temporarily, so they might not be the right option for you, unless you know you will have some more room in the foreseeable future, so I won't elaborate much on them, but as babies they'd do fine in an enclosure that size, so I thought I would at least mention them.

3. Crocodile Skink

As long as you keep a solitary animal, a 24x18 should do fine for a crocodile skink. Now, again, there is a downside: croc skinks are not really easy to keep. They will also need low spec USB, 80%+ humidity and a water area with a high quality filter. I have not kept them myself, but I have been told by friends who have kept them before that they are not an animal you should keep as a first lizard, so if you haven't kept lizards before, a crocodile skink might not be a perfect choice (I don't doubt they can be successfully kept even by a first-time lizard owner, provided a lot of work and research goes into it)

Additional information:

https://youtu.be/LEfZZFP3-CE

4. Viper Geckos

Viper geckos, again, are quite small in size, but they don't have the same high USB requirements as many other lizards, since they are nocturnal. Of course, they are not good for handling because of their small size, but they are quite interesting to watch. They don't need high humidity either (40-50%), they come from a dry, rocky area in Pakistan. They can climb smooth surfaces, though, so you will have to make sure the enclosure is very secure!

Additional information: https://www.supremegecko.com/viper-geckos-care-sheet

5. Pictus Gecko

What can I say except: another very small, very cute, very fragile gecko. They're commonly captive bred, they come in a few morphs and they're honestly adorable. They also do not require high USB, but may benefit from being provided some at least. They're most active during dusk and dawn, the time they hunt in the wild and I've been told they're absolutely fascinating to watch.

Additional information:

http://www.thegeckospot.net/pictuscare.php

https://youtu.be/ag1rJ862HZ4

7. Kenyan sand Boa

Most sources I have found agree that a 10 gallon tank will do fine for a Kenyan that is not a large female, so a tank your size should suffice. While I personally tend to go for larger than generally recommended, the tank should offer plenty of space for at least the first 2 1/2 years of the snake's life. After that time has passed, you can look at the size of your animal and consider upgrading if appropriate. Even though I'm not 100% certain the size will do for the snake's entire life, I still had to add it, since a Kenyan sand boa would be an animal that'd compliment your existing menagerie quite well and one you might be interested in :).

Additional information:

https://youtu.be/eoHgbP9mYv4

Some people say a 10 gallon is also fine for a hognose snake, but I would tentatively disagree. Every hognose I've owned has been quite active and would probably prefer to have more space.

Honorable mention:

Dart Frogs

Now, you've specified reptiles, so they will not go on the list, since they are amphibians, but I will still suggest them since they are cute, colourful and an animal you can design a creative little terrarium for.

The videos I've added are mostly from clint's reptiles' series introducing different animals, since I've found those to be a good starting point for additional research- and I encourage you to maybe check out more of them, since they talk about many more animals that might interest you.

I hope I could help you a little, good luck with your search 💙

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