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.
میاں نواز شریف نے شالیمار ہسپتال میں دوران قید اپنے لیے، Gynae Ward Unit 2 کا ایک کمرہ اپنے لیے منتخب کیا۔ اس میں میاں صاحب کو MS کے کمرے کا 32 انچ کا ٹی وی پسند آ گیا، تو MS کے کمرے سے اتروا کر میاں صاحب نے وہ Gynae Ward Unit 2 کے کمرے میں لگوا لیا۔ اس کے بعد وہاں AC کی سہولیات میسر کرکے عیاشی سے جیل کاٹی۔
یہ تو ابھی Shalimar Hospital کی ایک کہانی ہے، جہاں میاں صاحب Gynae Ward میں دلچسپی کے ساتھ ایڈمٹ تھے چند روز کے لیے۔
Breaking News:
Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan has been shifted to the Shifa International Hospital on Islamabad for treatment.
On Friday, Pakistan Supreme Court had ordered govt to shift Former PM Khan to the Shifa hospital for treatment.
Former PM Khan, who is suffering from deteriorating health, has spent his last three years in Adiyala jail after a regime change operation in Pakistan in 2022.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to be shifted from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad under a Supreme Court order for medical examination and treatment.
As anticipation grows over his transfer, supporters have been seen scattering flower petals along roads outside the hospital, welcoming the possibility of Khan arriving there.
The Supreme Court had ordered the transfer within 48 hours, while the government has challenged the portion of the order requiring treatment at a private hospital.
Shifa International Hospital’s Google Maps reviews are being flooded with messages from Pakistanis urging the hospital to take good care of former Prime Minister Imran Khan amid reports of his possible transfer.
“Take care of Khan” — messages continue to pour in. 🇵🇰
شفا انٹرنیشنل ہسپتال کے ملازمین کو پہلے ہدایت دی گئی تھی کہ وہ I-8 کی جانب سے مخصوص روٹ استعمال کرتے ہوئے A-1 گیٹ سے ہسپتال میں داخل ہوں۔
تاہم ملازمین کی گاڑی یہاں پہنچنے کے بعد انہیں اتار کر واپس روانہ ہوگئی، جبکہ ملازمین کا کہنا ہے کہ پولیس انہیں بھی ہسپتال کے اندر داخل ہونے کی اجازت نہیں دے رہی
800 سیکیورٹی اہلکار مختلف روٹس پر تعینات ہیں۔
عمران خان کو کچھ دیر میں شفا انٹرنیشنل ہسپتال منتقل کیے جانے کا امکان ہے۔
ان کی بہن اور ڈاکٹرز اڈیالہ جیل میں ان کے ساتھ موجود تھے ۔
@Sherazi_Silmian
پولیس کے مزید دستے پہنچ گئے ہیں اور اہلکاروں نے مکمل سیکیورٹی لائن قائم کر لی ہے۔ اس کے ساتھ ہی پریزن وین بھی موقع پر پہنچا دی گئی ہے۔
یہ اس وقت کی تازہ ترین صورتحال ہے۔
🚨BREAKING: For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — is being released in full by Drop Site.