Usama Khilji
@usamakhilji.bsky.social
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
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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.
🔗 : https://globalfreespeechsummit.com/
Join @usamakhilji.bsky.social as he analyzes how these trends impact India and Pakistan at the #FreeSpeechSummit2025.
🔗 : https://globalfreespeechsummit.com/
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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.
🔗 : https://globalfreespeechsummit.com/
Join @usamakhilji.bsky.social as he analyzes how these trends impact India and Pakistan at the #FreeSpeechSummit2025.
🔗 : https://globalfreespeechsummit.com/
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Legalising Big Brother
The proposed amendment will erode democratic civic space and roll back rights.
www.dawn.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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.
November 27, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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.
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.
November 27, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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.
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...
The new system could give the government unprecedented insights into citizens’ online use.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
Pakistan tests secret China-like ‘firewall’ to tighten online surveillance
The new monitoring system could give the government unprecedented insights into citizens’ online use.
www.aljazeera.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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...
The new system could give the government unprecedented insights into citizens’ online use.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...
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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?...
Plz go and watch.
youtu.be/5uMyeeCV5C4?...
Can PTA Ban All VPNs? | TCM Explains
YouTube video by TCM Originals
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November 20, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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?...
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.
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show social media platform Bluesky, a popular X alternative, has been restricted in Pakistan, corroborating user reports of issues accessing the service; Pakistan has imposed a growing number of social media platform bans and is also targeting VPN services
November 24, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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
https://www.dawn.com/news/1710205
Failing our minorities
The issue of forced conversions of minority girl children has serious ramifications.
www.dawn.com
August 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM
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
https://www.dawn.com/news/1710205