BaBaR Wani

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[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

Fasten your seat belts

THE WAIT IS OVER. 🔥

Cricket’s biggest stage awaits.

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

@TUnlimitedd Maharashtra or kashmir

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

@TUnlimitedd State

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

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

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

SALUTE to @Athersmike, someone I had the privilege of playing with many years ago, and @SkySports for doing this interview despite political pressure and standing up for Imran Khan. More sportspersons need to find their voice—not just when human and political rights are violated in another country, but, more importantly, when they are threatened in their own.
How many of our sporting stars, for instance, spoke out when our women wrestlers were protesting?
Sport gives you a platform. USE IT. SPEAK OUT. And STAY STRONG when you stand up to power. 🙏

[Save Sudan @twt_inter]

The pain in his eyes

We are so sorry

[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.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Blood rivers in Gaza.. No one cares about our suffering and pain

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

Reminder: If your cricket opinion changes every innings, you're not analyzing the game—you're live-streaming your emotions. 😂🏏

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

Respect isn't measured by the weight of a trophy.
It's revealed by what you do when it's at your feet. 🏆

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

@MrBeast I need that badly 🫠

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

“A nation’s tomorrow held its breath,
trapped in a silence that felt like death.”

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

King is back to his Throne 👑

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

@TUnlimitedd How much are you earning bro ....

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

Q - What were your plans against LQ?

Shadab Khan said, "Nothing special. They were already under pressure. I didn't bowl well, but still got 2 wickets". (smiles)

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

@howeverhoe Congrats bro

[Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei @MKhamenei_ir]

I congratulate all Muslims of the world on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

[BaBaR Wani @Babarwani08]

Finally one of the Indian mainstream media journalist shows Spine 🔥

- Say No to Islamophobia
- Say No to Israel
- Say No to Racism

Hats off to him 👏

This should go viral.