Muhammad Talha🇵🇰

Student of BS mechanical engineer,
Imran Khan is my leader

[Mike atherton @Athersmike]

Strong editorial today in @thetimes on Imran Khan

https://t.co/Rik2msS4Tq

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Pakistan v England at Lord’s 🏏🇵🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
#PakistanZindabad #FreeImranKhan

[Ihtisham Ul Haq @iihtishamm]

After Sky Sports, the BBC has now been discussing Imran Khan during its cricket commentary. It started with former Test captains speaking out, and has now pushed former Pakistani captains to talk about him too. Well, whenever there’s cricket, there will be Imran Khan.

[Oliver Holt @OllieHolt22]

As Imran Khan rots in a ‘death cell’ in Rawalpindi, cricket refuses to allow one of its greats to be disappeared. Piece from Lord’s here: https://t.co/DGt6sctBp7

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The sons of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan have spoken to Al Jazeera about their father’s worsening health in prison. Kasim and Suleiman Khan are demanding authorities allow access to independent medical treatment.

[Ali Khan Tareen @aliktareen]

😄🙏🏼

[Aleema khan @ikhan_17]

قاسم اور سلمان کا اس انٹرویو کو زیادہ سے زیادہ پھیلاو 🚨

[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

[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.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Imran Khan was one of us. He played for Oxford and for Worcestershire. He speaks Urdu with an English accent. Sure, he made mistakes as PM, but we should outraged that he has been banged up for 3 years on bogus charges, and that his health has broken down.
https://t.co/k4cpKMT3QO

[Khalid bin Salman خالد بن سلمان @kbsalsaud]

The Makkah Joint Defense Agreement between KSA, Pakistan, and Turkey 🇸🇦🇵🇰🇹🇷 establishes a framework for a long-term defense partnership, enhancing deterrence, coordination, and integration between our countries, and contributing to regional and global security and stability.

[Óscar Puente @oscar_puente_]

Qué bonita es!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Marc Cucurella @cucurella3]

#NuevaFotoDePerfil

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

¡Bienvenidos a casa, CAMPEONES! 🇪🇸

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Disgusting behaviour by the Argentinians at the end, especially Paredes.
Just a bunch of nasty violent thugs, and a disgrace to football. Never been so happy to see a team lose.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

¡¡SOMOS CAMPEONES DEL MUNDO!! 🇪🇸

¡Enorme nuestra Selección!

Gracias, equipo.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This low-resolution photo of goat poop will get more likes than the Israeli flag.

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

Zimbabwe waiting for Indian T20 team

[Out Of Context Cricket @GemsOfCricket]

Peak content 😂