Azharuddin

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

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[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

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.

[Dr. Shahbaz GiLL @SHABAZGIL]

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[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@Jemima_Khan @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

جب عمران خان کا قافلہ لوگوں کے بیچ سے گزرا تو لوگوں نے قافلے پر پھول کی پتیاں نچھاور کیں

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

جلد سرپرائز ملے گا۔۔۔

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

عمران خان کو سخت سیکورٹی حصار میں ہسپتال لے جایا جارہا ہے، اسلام آباد سے ایک شہری کی ویڈیو!
یہ کسی وزیر کا پروٹوکول بھی ہوسکتا ہے

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

اخرکار حکومت ہار مان گئی
رات 12 بجے تک عمران خان کو ہسپتال شفٹ کر دیں گے۔

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@wasimwaziri804 ہسی ڈوزی ڈوزی دی

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@Amir_Chamkani میں ایک پختون ہوں اور پختون قوموں میں جو سب سے بے غیرت قوم ہے وہ افریدی قوم ہے یہ غدار اور بغیرت میں سب سے اگے ہے یہ پیسوں کے لیے کچھ بھی کرتا ہے

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@Amir_Chamkani Kala ba kawi

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@PTIofficial

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@rizwanghilzai سہیل افریدی صاحب اگر اپ کو خبر نہیں ہے تو میں اپ کو ایک خبر دیتا ہوں عمران خان جیل میں ہے اپ بھول چکے ہوں گے

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@javerias پگل مت بانو یہ میا خلیفہ بن نا چاہتا ہے

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@SaifSolicitor پاکستان کا وہ میا خلیفہ ہے نہ وہ یاد آتا ہے

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@SaifSolicitor ایک تو میں جانتا ہوں میا خلیفہ ہے دوسری کے تو مجھے پتہ نہیں

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@SaifSolicitor پاکستان کے میا خلیفہ

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@ChohanGujjar529 @GFarooqi چا چا آپ نے بھی میا خلیفہ کو دیکھ ہے

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@GFarooqi Hi Mya khalifa 😄

[Azharuddin @Azharud61676764]

@GFarooqi Pakistani Mya khalifa