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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The sons of Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, tell Al Jazeera that they are increasingly worried after hearing that their 73-year-old father is ‘agitated’ and suffering from ‘severe anxiety.’

Read here: https://t.co/TCXyYOeNwP

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

PAKISTAN: Journalist and poet Ahmad Farhad has been held in administrative detention under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance for over two months, since 20 June, in Bagh, Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir.

🚨 He is currently on a hunger strike in protest against his unlawful detention. He was shifted to a hospital on 22 August after his health deteriorated significantly.

Ahmad Farhad is among several journalists and human rights defenders being targeted for speaking up about the human rights violations in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir.

🗣️ Demand Ahmad’s immediate and unconditional release.

➡️ Take action NOW: https://t.co/owRzKUw6S4

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Cricket legends urge Pakistan to provide 'proper medical care' for Imran Khan

https://t.co/MFWnmxNmHl

[Zain Ahmad Hashmi @ZainAhmad35]

یہ زہنی مریض ہے نفسیاتی ہیں
#جعلی_حکومت_کی_توہین_عدالت

[The Express Tribune @etribune]

Jemima Goldsmith, Imran Khan's former wife, has called on the British government to intervene over the former prime minister’s treatment in Pakistan, urging it to uphold his fundamental rights in accordance with directives issued by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

For more: https://t.co/OViTfzreAh

#etribune #News #latest

[Sara Mir @SaraMirGilgity]

آخر کیا خرابی ہے ہمار ے خون میں بحثیت پاکستانی ؟ 🥲

[Faisal Khan @KaliwalYam]

آواز اٹھائیں 🚨
خبریں آرہی ہے کہ ڈاکٹر یاسمین راشد کی طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں، سوشل میڈیا فرض سمجھ کر مطالبہ کریں کہ ڈاکٹر یاسمین راشد کو علاج کے لئے فوری ہسپتال منتقل کر دیا جائے

[Markandey Katju @mkatju]

The state of Pakistan's judiciary

[ℕ𝕚𝕟𝕚 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕜 (ℙ𝕋𝕀) @NiniYmz]

فیصل قریشی چھا گئے
خان صاحب! آپ نے کہا تھا گھبرانا نہیں ہے۔ اب ہم کہتے ہیں کہ آپ نے نہیں گھبرانا، کیونکہ ہم سب آپ کے ساتھ ہیں۔ پاکستان کی عوام آپ کے ساتھ ہے۔ اللہ کامیاب کرے!

اس وقت جو بھی خان کیساتھ ہے ہم اسکے ساتھ ہیں۔

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Ex-cricket captains urge 'proper medical care' for Imran Khan https://t.co/m9HcaA52vt

[Aleema khan @ikhan_17]

کیا قائداعظم نے پاکستان اس لیے آزاد کروایا تھا؟

[Aamir Gujjar @GaziAmirGujar]

میں دنیا کے تمام رہنماؤں سے دست بستہ اپیل کرتا ہوں کہ پاکستان کے سابق وزیرِاعظم کی زندگی اور آزادی کو ایک انتہائی انتقامی حکومت کے چنگل سے بچایا جائے۔
میں دیگر سربراہانِ مملکت سے اپیل کرتا ہوں عمران خان کو بھی اسی طرح بچانے کے لیے آگے بڑھیں،جیسے نیلسن منڈیلا کو بچانے کے لیے

[Aleema khan @ikhan_17]

"9 مئی کا بہانہ بنا کر عمران خان سے معافی کا مطالبہ کرنے والے ذرا اس تصویر کو دیکھیں۔ اب جب آرمی افسر کا یہ غیر قانونی اقدام سب کے سامنے آ چکا ہے، تو بتائیں کہ قانون کی دھجیاں اڑانے پر کون معافی مانگے گا؟"

[Dr. Shahbaz GiLL @SHABAZGIL]

Please retweet this tweet and forward it to your contacts as well. We all need to raise our voices against this brutality.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The ongoing detention and shocking mistreatment of Imran Khan is a grave violation of human rights, democracy and basic decency.

I reiterate my calls for his release.

[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.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Imran Khan is denied human contact and losing his sight, say sisters

https://t.co/3Sjungskwo

[Asif Mehmood @realbysoul]

شوکت خانم میموریل کینسر ہسپتال کی فنڈ ریزنگ ٹیویٹ کو ثواب دارین سمجھ کر ری ٹیویٹ کیا کریں

[Wajahat S. Khan @WajSKhan]

My message to all Patwarans...

More: https://t.co/tSXJZcTvdu

[Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI]

“Before investigating any matter, the FIA should apologize to me for fabricating a baseless case against me like the cipher case.

After the cipher, as Prime Minister, I conveyed a demarche to the Americans to protect Pakistan's sovereignty and to make my nation proud, and I presented the facts to my people.

My message to my nation was clear: we are a sovereign and dignified nation that will never accept interference in our internal affairs.

The cipher was actually sent to General Bajwa to topple my elected democratic government.

General Bajwa colluded with thieves for an extension of his tenure and imposed them on the nation.

I take responsibility for the posts made on my X (Twitter) account, but being in jail, I could not watch the video before it was uploaded.

Today, I was shown the video which contains the content of the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report.

Had I seen the video before uploading, I would have made a few minor changes to make the message more effective.

The Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report covers the causes, reasons, and characters involved in a tragic event in our national history.

The two main objectives of the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report were to identify those responsible for the tragedy and to point out mistakes.

I referred to the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report so that we could learn from past mistakes.

In the context of the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report, the criticism of General Yahya Khan is based on his political decision-making.

General Yaqub and Admiral Ahsan, stationed in East Pakistan, advised Yahya Khan against military action in East Pakistan, for which they had to resign.

The constitution binds the military to stay completely out of politics so they can perform their professional duties without facing criticism.

The Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report clearly states that General Yahya Khan was fully engaged in political decision-making.

Political decisions are criticized worldwide, and democracy fully protects such criticism.

A military head is not elected or appointed through a referendum, so it is in the military's best interest, as mandated by the constitution, to keep itself and its leadership away from politics and political decisions.

When a military head gets involved in politics or makes political decisions, he steps out of his position and into the political arena.

Yahya Khan's decision of not transferring power to a government with a decisive majority and public mandate, and letting the country face a tragic incident, were his decisions.

The situation rapidly deteriorated into internal chaos and division because the public mandate was not respected, resulting in the country's split.

Pakistan and its military paid a heavy price for Yahya Khan's involvement and interest in political decision-making.

After making political decisions and getting deeply involved in politics, it was impossible for General Yahya Khan to hide behind the military, so both the Hamoodur Rahman Commission and history have critically evaluated his role.

The extraordinary similarity between the events of the 1970s and today's situation is a cause for concern for every sensible Pakistani.

In the 1970s, the country was divided; today, our economy is in ruins with minimal chances of improvement,

The attempt to revive the economy through the SIFC has failed miserably.

Crushing the country's largest and most publicly mandated party through lawlessness will not improve the economy.

The FIA should investigate who abducted Azhar Mashwani's brothers and for what crime.

Social media workers are our heroes and assets of the nation, and the harassment of them and their families should stop.

The chances of economic improvement will only arise when the public mandate is respected, and decision-making is entrusted to democratically elected representatives with the public mandate”- Imran Khan.