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Trump's aide engages with PTI accounts on X calling for Imran Khan's release

News Desk

Dec 21

US President-elect Donald Trump's recent nominee for Presidential Envoy for Special Missions, Richard Grenell, has been consistently engaging with PTI supporters' accounts while echoing their calls for the release of Imran Khan.


On December 16, Richard Grenell posted a screenshot of a Geo News Urdu article with a headline translated in English as "Homosexual Richard Grenell appointed as Trump's envoy" with a caption: "I'll say it again, @geonews_urdu: Free Imran Khan."


Since then, the post went viral, garnering more than 10 million views, with PTI supporters and leaders appreciating the US official for raising his voice in support of the former Prime Minister. Grenell retweeted his own post on December 19 with a caption: "10 million. This is clearly popular. Free Imran Khan."


Grenell had previously voiced his support for Imran Khan on his official X page, and when he got nominated by Donald Trump, PTI supporters rejoiced on social media, congratulating him on his new title.

 

 

A prominent PTI supporter account complained to Grenell by posting a screenshot of an old tweet of the Federal Minister for Planning Development & Special Initiatives of Pakistan Ahsan Iqbal, in 2020, critically comparing Donald Trump with Imran Khan. 


Interestingly, Ahsan Iqbal's tweet from 2020 was retweeted by the official account of the US Embassy Islamabad, for which it later issued a clarifying tweet: "Dear Followers: The U.S. Embassy Islamabad Twitter account was accessed last night without authorisation. The U.S. Embassy does not endorse the posting or retweeting of political messages. We apologise for any confusion that may have resulted from the unauthorised post."

 

Richard Grenell after hearing the complaints of PTI supporters took an interest in the 2020 US Embassy retweet controversy, posting on X: "This is when they criticised the sitting U.S. President. Did they ever come clean to explain how they were hacked? I don't believe it."

 

 

Trump's new nominee has been unusually engaging with PTI-affiliated accounts on X (formerly Twitter) for the last week even retweeting memes targeting the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif.

Grenell also reposted a tweet criticising the Pakistan Army, showed a picture of an advertising van showcasing Pakistani Military Chiefs with a caption: "Never won a war! Never lost an Election."

Meanwhile, a congresswoman and the senator-elect from Michigan Elissa Slotkin also took to X to write, "Michigan has a large Pakistani-American community, and I continue to hear concerns about the recent deadly protests in Pakistan. Pakistani authorities must protect citizens' rights to free speech and peaceful assembly, hold violators accountable, and uphold Pakistan's democracy."

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