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i'm at a loss. i will't understand what is it about me that fascinates the Pakistani executive or makes it obsess over me so much. I left Pakistan in December 2018 and am main a quiet life in the UK. Yet, the institution hasn't stopped hounding me.

just a couple of days in the past, a pal despatched me some screenshots of Pakistani media channel ARY and asked what the case in opposition t me turned into, and what 'dehshatgardi' I had performed. i was bowled over. I asked around if these were fake screenshots. "No, Gul, here is breaking news on ARY presently," i used to be told.

in line with the information, Pakistan's Federal Investigation agency (FIA) had despatched a note, asking me to seem earlier than it and clarify myself. And if I fail to achieve this, i'd be slapped with fees under cyber crime and anti-terror laws, my homes in Pakistan could be seized, and i could be extradited by the use of the Interpol.

i was numb. The corporations for which I draft statements have been scrambling to problem statements of protest in team spirit with me. There changed into condemnation over the 'note' all around, however I nevertheless didn't be aware of what this was all about. a couple of news businesses contacted me and i informed them that I had now not received any word from the FIA or another organisation. at last, first light posted my version. i used to be still waiting to be contacted, even as the realm was being instructed that i used to be going to be slapped with terrorism charges. A media trial had begun.

I even have undoubtedly now not taken any motion yet. i can achieve this handiest after I have obtained the exact word. and that i plan to take the FIA to court if it definitely considerations a be aware to me. Twitterati and information analysts now not simplest expressed team spirit with me, but additionally had a field day laughing at this ludicrous information.

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The display wasn't even over when reporter Murtaza Ali Shah of Geo information and The news overseas broke the news Saturday that the Imran Khan government had written a four-web page letter to the uk government alleging that i used to be using the British soil to incite violence in opposition t Pakistan, spreading hatred, maligning it, and creatingdivisions in the nation.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) govt wishes the uk to take action towards me below the country's hate speech and anti-terrorism laws. And the Pakistani establishment, in accordance with journalist Ali Shah, has sent this letter to 10 Downing road, the overseas office, the domestic office, and to the local police.

It was an extra shock to me. As stated by the journalist, the language used in the letter (which I haven't viewed yet) contained commonplace fauji terms like "inimical actions", and seeks an investigation into my "way of life". Having realised it will possibly not be a success in bringing me back to Pakistan by means of the FIA, the Imran Khan regime wrote at once to the govt in the UK, hoping that motion will be taken against me right here. i'm wondering if these in vigor in Pakistan feel the uk government is as big a duffer as they're. sure, we've Boris Johnson on the helm here however he is not the every person. Murtaza spat out his Coke laughing whereas studying the letter.

but the critical concerns are these: they're hounding me; slapping me with made-up prices or trying to get that executed with the aid of the UK government; the Inter-features Intelligence (ISI) wing of the Pakistan embassy within the UK is making an attempt to sniff out my residential handle. They are trying anything and everything.

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a couple of months in the past, via this book, ThePrint, i tried to talk to the Pakistani executive about ending this bullying; about speakme; about resolving our disagreements. but no one paid heed. The bullying continues. And if they continue on this course, what do they expect me to do? bathe flower petals on them? i'll always reply them in the same coin.

I hear they are very indignant with me as a result of they feel i'm certainly one of their own – a typical's daughter and a further everyday's daughter-in-law. Why this may still put me of their class is beyond me. I even have not ever slept with the enemy. i am no Hamid Mir, no Ehsanullah Ehsan, no Colonel Imam. they have carried out their most excellent to get me to collaborate with them, provided suitable slots in desirable media channels – however I have all the time refused. Even beneath incarceration. 

i used to be in their secure apartment and below their control in 2018 once they asked me if i would toe their line if they put me on major time television. I mentioned No. Then they asked me once more within the motor vehicle (when they were taking me again home after my abduction) and additionally threatened me with my son's existence, "Aitchison jata hai na (he goes to Aitchison, doesn't he?)", they mentioned, relating to his faculty. "usako kuchh ho gaya toh hum se na gila karna (if whatever happens to him, then don't bitch to us)." I responded, "No, you must be out of your minds." They actually threatened to kill my son.

My message to them is that this: Don't threaten me. seek advice from me. Threats work simplest on cowards.

The creator is a Pakistani columnist and human rights defender. Views are personal.

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