{"id":385388,"date":"2022-11-07T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=385388"},"modified":"2022-11-07T18:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:27:04","slug":"dhuwan-star-ashir-azeem-sparks-public-outrage-for-wanting-military-crackdown-against-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/dhuwan-star-ashir-azeem-sparks-public-outrage-for-wanting-military-crackdown-against-imran-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dhuwan&#8217; Star Ashir Azeem Sparks Public Outrage for Wanting Military Crackdown Against Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistani actor and director, Ashir Azeem, is under fire for requesting the Pakistan Army and General Qamar Javed Bajwa to launch a crackdown against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party and its leader, Imran Khan, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks in his recent YouTube video elicited a strong reaction from PTI supporters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_385405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-385405\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-azeem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-azeem.jpg 800w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-azeem-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-azeem-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-azeem-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-azeem-758x758.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashir Azeem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Canada-based Pakistani made a very controversial YouTube video recently, in which he stated that the army cannot afford to lose control of the country to Imran Khan&#8217;s nationwide movement. He believes the consequences could lead to mass killings.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/khalil-ur-rehman-qamar-ecstatic-after-becoming-a-grandpa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar Ecstatic After Becoming a Grandpa<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>While Ashir Azeem opposed the notion of military interference in politics, he went on to say that General Bajwa should order the Pakistan Army to go hard on PTI, even if it meant killing thousands of party supporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Choice before Army &amp; Gen Bajwa.<br \/>Is appeasement a choice or crackdown inevitable.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p2q6JRCxgG\">https:\/\/t.co\/p2q6JRCxgG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Asher Azeem Gill (@ashirazeemgill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashirazeemgill\/status\/1589092776112947200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Twitterati strongly opposed Ashir Azeem&#8217;s views.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/UbaidRButt\/status\/1589271717590933504?s=20&#038;t=WN7dnhbe2lOHEasGkP3jXg<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/rabiana12901443\/status\/1589258124342743040?s=20&#038;t=WN7dnhbe2lOHEasGkP3jXg<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Didn&#39;t expect this from you but then every civilian supremacist, democrat, woke has been spewing the same venom.<\/p>\n<p>Quite vile, seeing this coming from you.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aurelius (@EngrAurelius) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EngrAurelius\/status\/1589227968077127683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/rabiana12901443\/status\/1589257640713940992?s=20&#038;t=WN7dnhbe2lOHEasGkP3jXg<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What are you? A political expert? A military expert?<br \/>You are just a shameless man, living in 1857. I&#39;m sure Ur blood line shares Colonel\u00a0Reginald Edward Harry Dyer n Narindra Modi<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Darthanos (@Darthzezuz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Darthzezuz\/status\/1589199520163803137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>People started requesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian government to take action against Ashir Azeem.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/InsurgoPK\/status\/1589261804592848896?s=20&#038;t=WN7dnhbe2lOHEasGkP3jXg<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabrshukar\/status\/1589256339070414849?s=20&#038;t=WN7dnhbe2lOHEasGkP3jXg<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OntarioPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OntarioPD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JustinTrudeau<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadianPM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CanadianPM<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This guy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashirazeemgill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashirazeemgill<\/a> is making hate speech calling for violance, inviting Army to crush civilians from your country. <\/p>\n<p>Please gag him!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WA (@Wahmed143) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wahmed143\/status\/1589280070383697920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/gigi-hadid-leaves-twitter-after-elon-musks-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gigi Hadid Leaves Twitter After Elon Musk&#8217;s Takeover<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>Ashir Azeem tried to clear the air in his follow-up tweet that he only wants order and normalcy restored, and that his video &#8220;is not incitement to violence but a call to armed forces to end the continuing incitement and call to violence by PTI through fake propaganda&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is not incitement to violence but a call to armed forces to end the continuing incitement &amp; call to violence by PTI through fake propoganda (fake shooting of IK, fake vdo of swati, fake blame of Arshad Sharif murder)<br \/>Order &amp; normalcy must be restored.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Asher Azeem Gill (@ashirazeemgill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashirazeemgill\/status\/1589277834828447745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>About Ashir Azeem<\/h3>\n<p>A once-popular Pakistani film and TV director, actor, and writer, Ashir Azeem rose to fame with the hit TV series <strong><em>Dhuwan\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in 1994. His last project in Pakistan was the film\u00a0<strong><em>Maalik<\/em><\/strong> in 2016, which was banned from being screened. After a lengthy legal battle, the film was finally given the go-ahead but Ashir Azeem suffered immense financial losses because of the setback.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-385406\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir.png 799w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-364x205.png 364w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ashir-758x426.png 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The actor later left Pakistan for Canada, expressing his disappointment with the country&#8217;s government and its people.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I left the country coz i got disappointed. Not with Sharifs or Zardaris, yeh to hamesha Esay hi thay, but with the people. <br \/>Log asool ki baat nahin karte, asool pe nahin larte, asool par hanste hain. They will always hv Sharifs n Zardaris n Raos only names will change. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c5n4Y7jO62\">https:\/\/t.co\/c5n4Y7jO62<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Asher Azeem Gill (@ashirazeemgill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashirazeemgill\/status\/1018185680139235328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He currently resides in Canada where he revealed he works as a truck driver and hosts his YouTube channel on which he discusses political reforms.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about Ashir Azeem&#8217;s remarks? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistani actor and director, Ashir Azeem, is under fire for requesting the Pakistan Army and General Qamar Javed Bajwa to launch a crackdown against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party and its leader, Imran Khan, on Sunday. His remarks in his recent YouTube video elicited a strong reaction from PTI supporters. 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