PTI slams 'propaganda drive' against Qasim

PTI has strongly condemned "an incompetent and fascist-imposed regime" for spreading "venomous and misleading propaganda" against Qasim Khan, son of PTI founder Imran Khan, and for manufacturing false narratives to distract the public from the country's chronic issues and widespread political victimisation. Reacting firmly to the "malicious campaign", PTI Central Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram stated that the unrepresentative regime had shamelessly attempted to politicise a son's heartfelt appeal to meet his father, deliberately twisting his words from his recent address at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to mislead the public and distort facts for political gain. Sheikh Waqas emphasised that neither Qasim Khan nor PTI senior leader Zulfi Bukhari made a single statement that could harm Pakistan's national interests; on the contrary, they presented Pakistan's position clearly and effectively on the international stage. The PTI CIS stated that propagandists had falsely claimed Qasim Khan called for the suspension of Pakistan's Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) trade status. In reality, he emphasised, Qasim Khan's speech was entirely devoted to human rights issues and a son's earnest plea for the immediate release of his father, who has been unlawfully detained and subjected to solitary confinement in politically motivated and bogus cases. Sheikh Waqas further stressed that Qasim Khan explicitly reaffirmed Pakistan's continued support for the GSP+ framework, underlining that his address was patriotic and focused solely on highlighting human rights violations, not undermining the nation's interests.