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.
آخر کار نون لیگی منصور علی خان بھی بول اُٹھے!!
نون لیگ کو شرم آنی چاہیے,
عمران خان شفا ہسپتال منتقل کرنے میں روڑے اٹکا رہےہیں, جبکہ انکا اپنا نواز شریف لندن بھاگ گیا تھا, جو سزا یافتہ مجرم تھا, اور اب انکو شرم بھی نہیں اتی, گرے ہوئے لوگ اب عدالتی احکامات ماننے سے انکاری ہے!
سارا الزام ایک قیدی کے اوپر کیوں ہے کے وہ لچک نہیں دیکھا رہا لچک حکومت دیکھے لچک اسٹیبلشمنٹ دیکھے عمران خان کو بولتے ہیں کے وہ بڑا ضدی ہے تو آپ ��وگ اس
We categorically REJECT all the medical reports circulating in the media regarding Imran Khan. Our doctor, Dr. Asim Yousif spoke to the doctors last night, who explained the procedure and treatment carried out, but as Dr. Asim Yousuf stated in his video, there is NO way for us to verify any of this.
Now we are even more concerned and worried and our demand remains unchanged: Imran Khan must be urgently transferred to a proper medical facility (Shifa International Hospital Islamabad) where he shall be examined by qualified specialists under Dr. Asim Yousuf’s supervision and in the presence of his family.
Tomorrow, we will be at Adiala Jail at 1:30pm, and we expect the authorities to allow us to meet Imran Khan as this is his legal right. The family will also hold a press conference outside Adiala at 4pm after our meeting with Imran Khan.
موجودہ رجیم کے سوپرمین محسن نقوی کے پاس جو دو ذمہ داریاں ہیں ان دونوں میں پاکستان مسلسل ناکام ہورہا ہے۔ دہشتگرد اسلام آباد میں گھس کر دھماکے کرتے ہیں، ایک بار پھر پاکستان انڈیا سے کرکٹ بری طرح ہار گیا۔ کیا وجہ ہےکہ اس بدترین کارکردگی کے باوجود محسن نقوی کو کوئی پوچھنے والا نہیں؟