{"id":64795,"date":"2025-02-07T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=64795"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:23:46","slug":"free-imran-khan-congressman-joe-wilson-pins-letter-to-pakistani-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/free-imran-khan-congressman-joe-wilson-pins-letter-to-pakistani-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Free Imran Khan&#8217;; Congressman Joe Wilson pins letter to Pakistani leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r r-1s2bzr4\">\n<p dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\">ISLAMABAD: Joe Wilson, a member of the\u00a0U.S. House of Representatives, has written to Pakistan&#8217;s civil and military leadership, demanding the release of former prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/army-chief-has-not-received-any-letter-from-imran-khan-say-security-sources\/\">Imran Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\">The cricket star-turned-politician has been incarcerated in Rawalpindi&#8217;s Adiala Jail since August 2023 and has faced charges in over 100 cases &#8211; all of which his party claims as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a letter shared on social media site X, Congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/naqvi-meets-nobody-from-trump-administration-during-us-visit-report\/\">Joe Wilson<\/a> demanded from the Pakistani leadership to free Imran Khan and announced to<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> engage the Trump administration on this issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taking about the US-Pakistan relations, the letter wrote &#8220;A strong U.S.-Pakistan relationship is in the national interest of both of our countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the over 75 years of bilateral relations between the U.S. and Pakistan, our relationship has been strongest when Pakistan embraces its democratic ideals of rule of law,&#8221; Wilson stated, who last month shared a pro-Imran Khan tweet after meeting Interior Minster Mohsin Naqvi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Grateful to send this letter today to the political and military leaders of Pakistan to Free Imran Khan. I will also be engaging the Trump administration on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>US-Pakistan relations are strongest when Pakistan is democratic<\/p>\n<p>Free Imran Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/szQ8QCowkz\">pic.twitter.com\/szQ8QCowkz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Wilson (@RepJoeWilson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJoeWilson\/status\/1887622504682037423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Addressing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, President Asif Ali Zardari, and COAS Gen Asim Munir, the Republican representative highlighted the &#8220;unjust detention of the former premier Khan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a letter,\u00a0Wilson alleged many disagreements with Khan, particularly his &#8220;stances in support of the Chinese Communist Party, and War Criminal Putin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, he said, &#8220;Democracy cannot work if political opponents are unjustly detained&#8221; on politicized charges rather than defeated in the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>The US politicians demanded the release of Imran Khan, adding that such a step would be a breakthrough towards strengthening U.S.-Pakistan relations.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the Pakistani leadership to &#8220;uphold democratic institutions, human rights, and the rule of law&#8221;, and respect the fundamental guarantees of due process, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech of the people of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last month, the legal troubles for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder increased after he was handed over 14 years of imprisonment in a \u00a3190 million graft case, in which he and his wife were accused of receiving billions of rupees and land to build Al-Qadir Trust Univeristy in return for releasing \u00a3190 million to a property tycoon in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Joe Wilson, a member of the\u00a0U.S. House of Representatives, has written to Pakistan&#8217;s civil and military leadership, demanding the release of former prime minister Imran Khan. The cricket star-turned-politician has been incarcerated in Rawalpindi&#8217;s Adiala Jail since August 2023 and has faced charges in over 100 cases &#8211; all of which his party claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":64796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[24875,26351],"class_list":["post-64795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-free-imran-khan","tag-joe-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64797,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64795\/revisions\/64797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}