@usamakhilji
Activist | Pukhtun | Director Bolo Bhi | Vice Chair GNI | Board voicepk.net| Chair Cities for Children | DDN Carnegie Endowment | OpEds Dawn, Al Jazeera | LSE alum. Dawn author page: https://www.dawn.com/authors/7248/usama-khilji
From content takedowns to online surveillance, digital freedoms in South Asia face growing threats.
Join @usamakhilji.bsky.social as he analyzes how these trends impact India and Pakistan at the #FreeSpeechSummit2025.
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A must read 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼, thank you @usamakhilji.bsky.social
www.dawn.com/news/1878245...
A protest dispersed by firing live ammunition at the protestors is not exactly a flex one should be proud of or a reason to ridicule protestors. Of course they will disperse if you start firing tear gas & live ammunition. Celebrating this or ridiculing protestors is shameful.
You know you have completely lost the plot when you have to fire at protestors numbering thousands in Pakistan.
Resign PM Shahbaz Sharif; you are illegitimate to begin with.
Stop treating your own citizens like enemies, Army Chief Asim Munir; there are much bigger security changes to be tackled.
Pakistan tests China-like digital firewall to tighten online surveillance.
The new system could give the government unprecedented insights into citizens’ online use.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
I recently interviewed @usamakhilji.bsky.social about #VPN ban in #Pakistan and it's impacts on economy and human rights in country.
Plz go and watch.
youtu.be/5uMyeeCV5C4?...
Pakistan likely the first country to block access to Bluesky @bsky.app that had just started to emerge as an alternative to X, which has been blocked in the country since February 2024.
On minorities day, we must not forget the pedophilic emergency in Pakistan whereby old men forcefully convert underage girl children from minority faiths to Islam & forcefully marry & rape them with impunity. There must be strong laws criminalising this.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1710205