On Sunday, August 24, 2025, Madison Avenue in Manhattan was transformed into a sea of green and white as the 41st Annual Pakistan Day Parade rolled from 38th Street down to 27th Street. Backed and guarded by the NYPD, the parade celebrated the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a state that harbored Osama bin Laden for years, including after the 9/11 attacks, the architect of the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
And yet, twenty-four years later, New York City, the city that suffered the most on 9/11, not only permits but endorses a parade glorifying the very regime that sheltered bin Laden.
A Celebration of Pakistan, Under NYPD Escort
New York City is home to over 200,000 Pakistanis. Floats featuring “Long Live Pakistan” slogans, the Pakistani flag waved by organizers, and speeches quoting Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, filled Madison Avenue. Pakistani advocacy groups used the parade to demand more political influence, openly declaring their mission to “achieve a seat at the political table” in New York and beyond.
The American Pakistani Advocacy Group (APAG) proudly boasted of its lobbying victories:
- The New York State Assembly officially proclaimed March 23, 2025, “Pakistan-American Heritage Day.”
- Another resolution, designated March 19, 2025, is “Pakistani-American Business Celebration Day.”
- Pakistani diplomats, including Ambassador to the U.S. Rizwan Saeed Sheikh and Consul General Aamer Ahmed Atozai, were honored in Albany alongside APAG’s leadership.
The American Pakistani Public Affairs Committee (APPAC), a prominent parade sponsor, made its agenda crystal clear. Their float declared in bold red letters: “Voting is not only our right – it is our power.”
APAG claims legislative victories, APPAC flaunts political slogans, and PTI imports foreign battles into New York. Together, these groups reveal the parade’s true nature: not cultural celebration, but political mobilization.
“New York PTI for Pakistan”
Also among the marchers was “New York PTI for Pakistan,” the U.S. chapter of Imran Khan’s political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The group even fielded its own float in the parade. Their participation is deeply controversial. PTI is not an American movement—it is a foreign political party headquartered in Pakistan.
By parading down New York streets under their banner, PTI’s U.S. chapter is effectively importing Pakistan’s political battles onto American soil. Critics warn that these diaspora chapters often serve as fundraising arms, with money raised abroad fueling political unrest in Pakistan and raising red flags over compliance with U.S. foreign-agent and campaign finance laws.
Their presence also exposes rifts within the Pakistani-American community, as rival factions clash at rallies, bringing the divisions of Islamabad into New York. In short, what looks like cultural pride is in fact the projection of a foreign political agenda into America’s public square.
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PAC USA Group Marching
This is not about cultural pride. It is about political conquest. APPAC and its allies have been explicit: their goal is to mobilize Pakistani Muslims into a voting bloc that can bend U.S. politics toward foreign and Islamic interests.
This wasn’t simply a cultural celebration. It was a political demonstration — a show of foreign influence at the very heart of America’s largest city.
The Bitter Irony: New York, 9/11, and Pakistan’s Role
The irony could not be more grotesque.
- Pakistan’s intelligence services (ISI) long nurtured the Taliban, which gave safe haven to bin Laden.
- Bin Laden wasn’t found in some remote cave — he was killed in Abbottabad, a major Pakistani military garrison city, just down the road from Pakistan’s military academy. That extraordinary location raised serious suspicions that elements of Pakistan’s government or military had sheltered him.
- The 9/11 Commission Report and subsequent investigations made clear that Pakistan was central to the terror infrastructure that targeted the United States.
And yet, instead of mourning or demanding accountability, New York, the city scarred by the ashes of the Twin Towers, now hosts parades glorifying this very nation.
Pakistan: “Land of the Pure” — But Not for Minorities
When Pakistan was founded in 1947, 23% of its population was non-Muslim. Today, that number has plummeted to about 3%. In Urdu, Pakistan literally means “Land of the Pure.” The reality is clear: minorities have been systematically driven out, terrorized, or killed in the name of “purifying” the country. Pakistan was formed when India won independence from the British Empire, because Muslims would not tolerate a multi-faith nation with secular rule. They demanded a separate nation to ‘safeguard Muslim identity’—which, in practice, meant a Sharia-compliant state.
- Textbook Hate: Pakistani madrassas and schoolbooks explicitly teach hatred of Hindus, Christians, and Jews. Seventh-grade state-issued textbooks describe Hindus as “traitors” aligned with India and Christians as “Western agents bent on destroying Islam.”
- Blasphemy Laws: Pakistan enforces one of the world’s harshest blasphemy regimes. A mere accusation of insulting Islam can lead to imprisonment, lynching, or execution. Between 1987 and 2021, nearly 2,000 blasphemy cases were registered, disproportionately targeting minorities.
- Mob Violence: Entire Christian villages have been burned after fabricated blasphemy claims. Asia Bibi, a Christian farm worker, spent eight years on death row for allegedly insulting Muhammad before fleeing into exile.
- Forced Conversions: Human rights groups estimate that at least 1,000 Hindu and Christian girls are abducted every year in Pakistan, forced to convert to Islam, and marry their captors.
The horror is not confined to religious minorities. Shia Muslims — 15% of Pakistan’s population — are branded as heretics, routinely bombed in their mosques, and massacred at prayer. The Ahmadis, declared non-Muslims by the state, are legally barred from calling their places of worship mosques or even saying the Islamic greeting “salaam.”
Pakistan’s record is so appalling that the U.S. State Department has consistently listed it as a “Country of Particular Concern” for religious freedom violations. Yet none of this stopped New York State legislators from showering honors on Pakistan’s diplomats this year.
A Trojan Horse for Political Power
APAG leaders have been open about their aims: “We want to achieve a seat on the political table for the Pakistani-American community and have our voices heard into actions.”
This is not about culture. This is about influence and power. Pakistan-linked organizations are now embedded in New York politics, lobbying City Council, the State Assembly, and leveraging public celebrations like this parade to normalize Pakistan’s role as a “partner” rather than the terror-sponsoring, minority-crushing state it has always been.
And the political push isn’t limited to parades. On U.S. soil, former Pakistani President Dr. Arif Alvi has openly urged Pakistani Muslims to infiltrate American politics, not to serve the United States, but to advance Pakistan’s and global Islam’s (the Ummah) interests.
In April 2025, at a private reception in Long Island, Alvi told a packed room of Pakistani-American leaders:
“This is not a request — this is a demand from Pakistan. Your country needs you. Pakistan Zindabad!”
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Just weeks later, in June 2025, Alvi doubled down at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC Mosque) in Texas — a tax-exempt nonprofit already under state scrutiny — declaring:
“I still believe the masjid is a social, political, religious center — like always.”
Alvi’s speeches made the blueprint explicit:
- Seize local school boards, councils, and legislatures.
- Align Muslim-American votes into a bloc to influence both U.S. and Pakistani policy.
- Reject assimilation and instead reshape American society around foreign loyalties.
This was not protected worship. It was foreign political mobilization, carried out inside American mosques and community centers, weaponizing U.S. freedoms against U.S. sovereignty.
What Alvi demanded in April and June, groups like APAG and APPAC executed in August on Madison Avenue. The Pakistan Day Parade was not just a cultural display. It was a live-action example of foreign political interference — ideological jihad waged not with bullets, but with ballots, nonprofits, and parades masquerading as “heritage.
A Slap in the Face to 9/11 Victims
New Yorkers should be asking a hard question: Why is a city once devastated by Pakistani-enabled terrorism parading Pakistan’s flag down Madison Avenue with police escorts and legislative blessings?
This parade is a display of political power, foreign influence, and historical amnesia. It dishonors the memory of 9/11’s victims, whitewashes Pakistan’s atrocities against its own people, and normalizes the very ideology and state power that gave shelter to America’s enemies.
New York has forgotten. And that forgetfulness is being exploited.
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