Pakistani political dissident says he’s been assaulted and intimidated in Britain

Pakistani political dissident says he’s been assaulted and intimidated in Britain

Shahzad Akbar, an aide in Imran Khan’s government, has told Declassified UK that he has been the target of a sustained campaign of “transnational repression” since fleeing to Britain following the US-backed 2022 regime change in Pakistan. The former Pakistani cabinet minister, barrister, and close ally of the currently incarcerated Imran Khan, told Declassified’s Mark Curtis that he was brutally assaulted on his doorstep last Christmas Eve. This…