Beyond anyone's expectation or imagination, this TriSeris has turned out to be one of the most exciting tournaments in recent times.
All games followed the usual pattern and finished with unexpected comebacks.
I campaigned for years to free Assange, and since then I’ve focussed on Imran Khan.
Now Assange is back, and following only one person on X, Imran.
Why is Imran Khan’s case so pivotal?
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Cricket legend Imran Khan is rotting to death in a tiny jail cell in Pakistan. It's time Britain used its influence to help free him
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The Defence Minister is right. It’s why I have never been considered Jewish by the Jewish community. My mother was a Church of England Protestant. And by this logic, my father was not Jewish either. His mother was a French Catholic. As ever, in attempting to undermine my sons, Pakistan’s Defence Minister has scored an embarrassing own goal.
Now it’s CNN with their top most anchor Becky Anderson raising concerns about Imran Khan. Zulfi Bokhari just brilliant presented Khan’s case.
Yesterday it was Sky, today it’s CNN. Imran khan is all over on global networks.
It’s getting too embarrassing for our rulers.
At the end, only your own blood fights for you. Just look at Imran Khan.
His sisters are in courts, on international media and outside Adiala for weeks, fighting to prove their brother is still breathing in a death cell.
His sons are screaming to the world that their father is rotting in solitary torture.
And 250 million spineless cowards are just watching his sisters get dragged and his sons beg for help, while you sit at home scrolling and hiding, waiting for his blood to win your freedom
A World Cup-winning captain raising his voice for a World Cup-winning captain. And there’s something profoundly poetic about that. @patcummins30 wasn’t even born when @ImranKhanPTI lifted the World Cup for Pakistan in 1992. Yet 34 years later, the man who once stood at the summit of world cricket still commands the respect of those who now stand where he once did.
Some legacies fade with time. Others transcend generations.
Imran Khan’s is the latter. 🏏❤️
Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves
@meherbokhari@CMShehbaz Aur es se ziada behiss hum awaam hen jo srf ek din social media p gussa nikalen g aur kl sb bhool jayen g.
Jb k agar koi aqal walon ka aur insaaniyat rkhne wala muaashra hota tw aaj pura mulk road p hota
@meherbokhari@CMShehbaz Agar zara si sharam baaki hoti tw health minister n resign krna tha aur pm n b resign krna tha.
14 parents khushi k moqay p apne baby ki dead body le kr gye hen
Agar es waqiye se b zameer malamat ni krta tw zrur hmare hukmuran behiss hen
بریکنگ نیوز۔۔۔!
آئس پگھل چکی ہے لیکن ابھی ڈیل نہیں ہوئی،
میں یہ بات نہیں مانتا کہ عمران خان سے پچھلے 8 مہینوں میں کسی نے رابطہ نا کیا ہو،
عمران خان سے درجنوں رابطے ہوئے ہوں گے،
عمران خان کی جگہ پارٹی میں سے کسی اور کو وزیر اعظم بنانے کا مطلب مائنس عمران ہی ہوا ناں،
برصغیر کی تاریخ میں پہلا سیاسی لیڈر آیا ہے جو سیاست میں آنے سے پہلے کرشماتی شخصیت بھی تھی اور پاپولر بھی تھا،
میں نے عمران خان کے ساتھ اپنی تمام رنجش ختم کر دی ہے،
عمران خان کے متعلق میں نے اسٹبلشمنٹ کو بہت پہلے کہہ دیا تھا، کہ اس آدمی سے پنگا نا لینا یہ کپڑے اتار دے گا،
عمران خان جتنا بہادر آدمی میں نے پہلے نہیں دیکھا، حفیظ اللہ نیازی
Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?
For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir, which according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health.
He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.
The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.
He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.
Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.
Yet those orders are being defied.
This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.
He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.
His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls.
I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father.
@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court; restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government to please now do the right thing.
Alhamdulillah, CHAMPIONS 🏆
So proud of my team, we stood together through everything. Hard work never goes unnoticed.
I was once a ball picker, standing on the sidelines, dreaming of moments like this. Now I wish, If even one ball picker today picks up a bat tomorrow believing they can become a cricketer, then THIS VICTORY MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME.
Grateful to my family, Zalmi management, and my friends for always being in my corner, no matter what 💛