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You Don't Know Me, 2022

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Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Bantam Date of publication: March 5th, 2024 Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Crime, Legal Thriller, Adult Fiction, Drama Purchase Links: Kindle | Audible | B&N | AbeBooks | WorldCat Goodreads Synopsis: Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to…

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Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood

Today I'm delighted to share my thoughts on Finding Sophie, the brand new thriller from Imran Mahmood @imranmahmood777 @BloomsburyRaven @Tr4cyF3nt0n #books #bookreview #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #findingsophie

Today I am delighted to share my thoughts on the brand new thriller from Imran Mahood, Finding Sophie. I really enjoy Imran’s writing and picking up one his books is always a highlight of the year. My thanks to publisher Raven Books for the early copy for review, and to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for the tour invite. Here’s what the books all about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 14…

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Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi's Legal Battle

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Imran Khan Warns That Pakistan’s Election Could Be A Farce

His Party is Being Unfairly Muzzled, the Former Prime Minister Writes From Prison

— January 4th, 2024 | The Economist

Imran Khan, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Image: Dan Williams

Today pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These administrations are constitutionally illegal because elections were not held within 90 days of parliamentary assemblies being dissolved.

The public is hearing that elections will supposedly be held on February 8th. But having been denied the same in two provinces, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, over the past year—despite a Supreme Court order last March that those votes should be held within three months—they are right to be sceptical about whether the national vote will take place.

The country’s election commission has been tainted by its bizarre actions. Not only has it defied the top court but it has also rejected my Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (pti) party’s nominations for first-choice candidates, hindered the party’s internal elections and launched contempt cases against me and other pti leaders for simply criticising the commission.

Whether elections happen or not, the manner in which I and my party have been targeted since a farcical vote of no confidence in April 2022 has made one thing clear: the establishment—the army, security agencies and the civil bureaucracy—is not prepared to provide any playing field at all, let alone a level one, for pti.

It was, after all, the establishment that engineered our removal from government under pressure from America, which was becoming agitated with my push for an independent foreign policy and my refusal to provide bases for its armed forces. I was categorical that we would be a friend to all but would not be anyone’s proxy for wars. I did not come to this view lightly. It was shaped by the huge losses Pakistan had incurred collaborating with America’s “war on terror”, not least the 80,000 Pakistani lives lost.

In March 2022 an official from America’s State Department met Pakistan’s then ambassador in Washington, dc. After that meeting the ambassador sent a cipher message to my government. I later saw the message, via the then foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and it was subsequently read out in cabinet.

In view of what the cipher message said, I believe that the American official’s message was to the effect of: pull the plug on Imran Khan’s prime ministership through a vote of no confidence, or else. Within weeks our government was toppled and I discovered that Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, had, through the security agencies, been working on our allies and parliamentary backbenchers for several months to move against us.

People flocked onto the streets to protest against this regime change, and in the next few months pti won 28 out of 37 by-elections and held massive rallies across the country, sending a clear message as to where the public stood. These rallies attracted a level of female participation that we believe was unprecedented in Pakistan’s history. This unnerved the powers that had engineered our government’s removal.

To add to their panic, the administration that replaced us destroyed the economy, bringing about unprecedented inflation and a currency devaluation within 18 months. The contrast was clear for everyone to see: the pti government had not only saved Pakistan from bankruptcy but also won international praise for its handling of the covid-19 pandemic. In addition, despite a spike in commodity prices, we steered the economy to real gdp growth of 5.8% in 2021 and 6.1% in 2022.

Unfortunately, the establishment had decided I could not be allowed to return to power, so all means of removing me from the political landscape were used. There were two assassination attempts on my life. My party’s leaders, workers and social-media activists, along with supportive journalists, were abducted, incarcerated, tortured and pressured to leave pti. Many of them remain locked up, with new charges being thrown at them every time the courts give them bail or set them free. Worse, the current government has gone out of its way to terrorise and intimidate pti’s female leaders and workers in an effort to discourage women from participating in politics.

I face almost 200 legal cases and have been denied a normal trial in an open court. A false-flag operation on May 9th 2023—involving, among other things, arson at military installations falsely blamed on pti—led to several thousand arrests, abductions and criminal charges within 48 hours. The speed showed it was pre-planned.

This was followed by many of our leaders being tortured or their families threatened into giving press conferences and engineered television interviews to state that they were leaving the party. Some were compelled to join other, newly created political parties. Others were made to give false testimony against me under duress.

Despite all this, pti remains popular, with 66% support in a Pattan-Coalition 38 poll held in December; my personal approval rating is even higher. Now the election commission, desperate to deny the party the right to contest elections, is indulging in all manner of unlawful tricks. The courts seem to be losing credibility daily.

Meanwhile, a former prime minister with a conviction for corruption, Nawaz Sharif, has returned from Britain, where he was living as an absconder from Pakistani justice. In November a Pakistani court overturned the conviction (Under United States’ Scrotums Licker Corrupt Army Generals’ Directions).

It is my belief that Corrupt to his Core Mr Sharif has struck a deal with the establishment whereby it will support his acquittal and throw its weight behind him in the upcoming elections. But so far the public has been unrelenting in its support for pti and its rejection of the “selected”.

It is under these circumstances that elections may be held on February 8th. All parties are being allowed to campaign freely except for pti. I remain incarcerated, in solitary confinement, on absurd charges that include treason. Those few of our party’s leaders who remain free and not underground are not allowed to hold even local worker conventions. Where pti workers manage to gather together they face brutal police action.

In this scenario, even if elections were held they would be a disaster and a farce, since pti is being denied its basic right to campaign. Such a joke of an election would only lead to further political instability. This, in turn, would further aggravate an already volatile economy.

The only viable way forward for Pakistan is fair and free elections, which would bring back political stability and rule of law, as well as ushering in desperately needed reforms by a democratic government with a popular mandate. There is no other way for Pakistan to disentangle itself from the crises confronting it. Unfortunately, with democracy under siege, we are heading in the opposite direction on all these fronts. ■

— Imran Khan is the Founder and Former Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and was Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022.

— Editor’s Note: Pakistan’s government and America’s State Department deny Mr Khan’s allegations of American interference in Pakistani politics (Bullshit! Hegemonic War Criminal Conspirator United States and Corrupt Army Generals and Politicians of Pakistan Were Clearly Involved. It’s Social Media’s Modern Era, Not 1970). The government is prosecuting him under the Official Secrets Act.

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With the compliments of, Directorate General Public Relations,

Government of the Punjab, 99201390.

No.1236/DN/Umer

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PHA ANNOUNCES SCULPTURE GARDEN AT NASSER BAGH

LAHORE, May 05:

The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Lahore has initiated work to open a pioneering public sculpture garden at provincial capital’s historic Nasser Bagh, a spokesperson announced on Sunday.

The sculpture park, the spokesperson explained, will comprise an outdoor garden featuring sculptures and numerous permanently situated works crafted from durable materials within landscaped surroundings.

Expected to be operational by early next month, the proposed facility will operate in conjunction with The Barracks, a new art gallery developed by the PHA and inaugurated by Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman at the iconic site in February.

Initially, the department has commissioned renowned artists such as Imran Qureshi, Risham Hosain Syed, Saeed Akhtar, Talat Dabir, Shahid Sajjad, Rasheed Araeen, Rashid Rana, Tahir Mahmood, and Meherunnisa Asad for the project.

The sculptures will be crafted from clay, grass, concrete and other eco-friendly material to preserve the sanctity of Nasser Bagh, the spokesperson said.

According to the spokesperson, these artworks will be a permanent addition to The Barracks art gallery, serving as "a gift from the artists and friends of Lahore to the city."

"The concept of a sculpture garden, the pièce de résistance of the park, has been in development for many years. The Barracks now aims to expand artistic endeavors within the Nasser Bagh precinct," he added.

Situated in a spacious basement in the park, previously occupied by the Civil Defence Department, the art gallery underwent extensive renovation by the PHA prior to its opening, with the aim of offering a lively space for art enthusiasts and connoisseurs alike.

"It’s a bold, and perhaps even radical, new attraction for this part of the city and, located amidst the National College of Arts (NCA) and Punjab University College of Arts and Design (PUCAD), it stands as an ideal cultural destination," remarked Fiza Shahid, an art director said.

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#BlogTour – #BookReview of #FindingSophie by Imran Mahmood @imranmahmood777 @BloomsburyRaven @Tr4cyF3nt0n #CompulsiveReaders 

I’m delighted to welcome you today to my stop on the blog tour for clever psychological thriller Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood. Thank you to Tracy Fenton and Raven Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this fantastic book. About the book: Sophie King is missing.  Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they’ve done everything for their…

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FINDING SOPHIE By Imran Mahmood @BloomsburyRaven @imranmahmood777 @Tr4cyF3nt0n #FindingSophie #BlogTour #BookReview

Available now/ Hardback / ebook / audiobook / Thank you to Tracey Fenton for inviting me on to the blog tour and thank you to @BloomsburyRaven for and ARC of the book. All thoughts and opinions are my own and have not been influenced in any way. SYNOPSIS Sophie King is missing.  Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they’ve done everything for their…

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Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood @imranmahmood777 @Tr4cyF3nt0n @BloomsburyRaven

Book Description: A brilliantly compelling domestic suspense from a rising star of the crime fiction world, and the man behind BBC/Netflix smash hit, You Don’t Know MeSophie King is missing.Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they’ve done everything for their beloved only daughter and now she’s gone.The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are growing…

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WWW Wednesday: March 6th, 2024

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme Sam hosts at Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, and plan to read from Thursday to Wednesday. Let me know if you have read or are planning on reading any of these books!! Happy…

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All I Said Was True by Imran Mahmood

Today I am thrilled to share my thoughts on All I Said Was True, the brand new thriller from Imran Mahmood @imranmahmood777 @BloomsburyRaven @Tr4cyF3nt0n #allisaidwastrue #books #booktwt #booktwitter

I’m is my pleasure to join the blog tour for All I Said Was True, the latest offering from Imran Mahmood. I’ve loved the author’s previous books and was really looking forward to seeing what tangled web he set before us this time around. My thanks to publisher Raven Books for the advance copy of the book and to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for the tour invite. Here’s what it’s all…

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Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood @imranmahmood777 @BloomsburyRaven

Happy Publication day @imranmahmood 777. Finding Sophie is beautifully crafted, with great characters and a stunning, emotive and compelling narrative arc, culminating in a superb and unexpected ending.

Source: Review copyPublication: 14 March 2024 from Raven BooksPP: 352ISBN-13: 978-1526647597 My thanks to Raven Books for an advance copy for review Sophie King is missing. Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they’ve done everything for their beloved only daughter and now she’s gone. The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are growing increasingly…

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Review: Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood

☆☆➹⁀☆ 4 stars ☆➹⁀☆☆ About the Book: Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, Harry and Zara King’s lives have revolved around their only daughter, Sophie. One day, Sophie leaves the house and doesn’t come home. Six weeks later, the police are no closer to finding her than when they started. Harry and Zara have questioned everyone who has ever had any connection to Sophie, to no avail.…