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Following Imran Khan since 2007 London
Jailed former Pakistani PM Imran Khan has only 15 percent vision left in his right eye, his lawyers tell the Supreme Court as judges order a medical board to examine him. Kamran Yousaf has more from Islamabad
بشری بی بی رہا۔ 9 ماہ کی ناجائز قید کی سختیوں اور ناکردہ گناہوں کی سزا کا بےمثال دلیری سے سامنا کرنے پر قوم انہیں سلام پیش کرتی ہے۔ بہت جلد PM عمران خان بھی اپنے عوام میں ہونگے، انشاءاللہ!
A young man, unjustly charged after 9 May, spent 10 months in prison. He used to run a small pizza parlour & is devoted to a politics of human dignity. I visited his parlour. In his absence, they destroyed the oven to leave him with no livelihood. He will walk with us. Soon.
It is extremely concerning & heartbreaking to know that @intazarpanjutha is still missing. I call on all lawyers, bar councils & bar associations, across Pakistan, to take a definitive stand on this serious issue. The State must be held accountable for its continued brazen disregard for law & due process.
When we raised our voices and advocated for Dr. Yasmin Rashid and the other women who were mishandled earlier, if the issue had been addressed in a timely manner, this wouldn’t have happened to the young girl who was peacefully protesting.
Pakistan is a member of the Commonwealth, pledged “to promote, protect and respect internationally recognised human rights”. Their treatment of Imran Khan betrays these principles. As a possible candidate for Chancellor of @UniofOxford, he needs to be released and restored.
Today in a marquee filled with 80% men and a speakers' list consisting of 99% male voices the most popular, loved, bold and honest voice was that of a woman, Rabia Bajwa. She spoke of the sacrifices of ZAB and MBBS and questioned Bilawal's support of the proposed 26th Amendment & military courts on which a handful of PPP affiliated lawyers gathered around the podium and interrupted her. One PPP affiliated member of the KBA Cabinet walked up and snatched the mic away from Rabia Bajwa and said "If anyone speaks against our Chairman then party policy is not to allow it." The KBA General Secretary later requested Rabia Bajwa to continue but not talk about politics on which Rabia stood by her principles and said if she will speak her words will not be dictated. The rest of the afternoon kept resounding with chants of "Rabia! Rabia!" regardless of whoever the speaker was. Unfortunate that not only did PPP do it's best to try and pass the Amendment in the dark of the night it is also on the agenda to throttle any open and honest discussion on the same.
In the last few weeks there have been serious and concerning developments regarding my sons’ father, Imran Khan’s treatment in prison. The Pakistan authorities have stopped all visits to him by his family and his lawyers. They have also postponed all court hearings. In addition to cutting off in- person visits, and in defiance of a court order, his weekly calls to his sons, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, who are British and who live in London, were stopped on 10th September. We have received reports that the authorities have now turned off the lights and electricity in his cell and he is no longer allowed to leave his cell at any time. The jail cook has been sent on leave. He is now completely isolated, in solitary confinement, literally in the dark, with no contact with the outside world. His lawyers are concerned about his safety and well-being.
These actions come in the context of ongoing targeting of Imran’s family, as well as his party (PTI) members and supporters in an attempt to silence them and all political opposition in Pakistan. Imran’s nephew, Hassan Niazi, a civilian, has been detained in military custody since August 2023. More recently, Imran Khan’s sisters, Uzma and Aleema Khan, who have continued to speak out on his behalf, have also been arrested as they made their way peacefully to a demonstration and they are currently being held in jail, despite there being no proper or lawful basis for their imprisonment.
In June this year the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Imran is unlawfully and arbitrarily detained and called for his immediate release.
As a matter of urgency , we are calling for Imran Khan’s release, and for the release of his sisters and nephew as well as for his sons’ contact with their father to be re-established, so that they may have assurance first-hand that he is well and not being mistreated.
اگر ٹھپے خود ہی لگانے تھے تو ہمیں ووٹ ڈالنے کیوں بلایا؟ ۔۔۔۔ پنجاب پولیس تو آپ کو نظر آ رہی ہے لیکن کیا آپ جانتے ہیں کہ یہ پنجاب کے کون سے علاقے کا کون سا پولنگ سٹیشن ہے؟
کل میں نے بتایا تھا کہ اس مرتبہ واردات فارم 45 کے زریعے ڈالی جائے گی،، چوہدری مونس الہی کے حلقہ کے پولنگ اسٹیشن نمبر 86 کے پریزائیڈنگ افسر نے الیکشن کمیشن کو تحریری طور ہر آگاہ کردیا کہ اسے فارم 45 نہیں ملا،، یہ کسی بھی صورت تحریک انصاف کو الیکشن میں فاتح نہیں ہونے دیں گے۔۔
ضلع گجرات کی تقریباً تمام پولیس آج ٹھپوں کی ڈیوٹی میں مصروف ہے سول کپڑوں میں کھلے عام ٹھپے لگ رہے ہیں، پولنگ اسٹیشنز میں داخلہ بند ہے
بظاہر لگ رہا ہے کہ اب حکمت عملی یہ ہے کہ ننگے اور بدنام تو ہو ہی گئے ہیں لہٰذا شرم و حیا کیسی
پریزاٹنڈنگ افسر نے اعتراف کرلیا کہ اس نے فارم 45 تحریک انصاف کے پولنگ ایجنٹس سے پہلے دستخط کروا لیے ہیں،، پی پی 149 سے تحریک انصاف کے امیدوار حافظ زیشان کی تکرار۔۔یہاں سے استحکام پارٹی کے شعیب صدیقی امیدوار ہیں۔۔