عمران احمد خان نیازی کو میں دہائیوں سے جانتا ہوں۔۔۔وہ ذہین ترین لیڈر ہے۔۔ خان کے بیٹوں سے بات ہوئی ہے۔۔ہم 2 دن بعد پارلمینٹ میں آواز اٹھائیں گے
“خان کو رہا کرو”
برطانیہ کے جیرمی کوربن
Michael Atherton, no words can truly express our gratitude for standing up for Imran Khan, especially when even many of his own have chosen silence. Your courage means a great deal. Pakistan owes you one.
@Athersmike#StopRiskingImranKhansLife
Michael Atherton chatting about the interview he did with Imran Khan's sons for Sky Sports that will air during the lunch break today and why he and 21 former captains wrote in support of Imran Khan.
England's Former Captain, Mike Atherton, spoke out & raised his voice during live Pak vs Eng match, speaking out about Imran Khan’s health and the atrocities being committed against him.
This must be an embarrassment for the Pakistani regime, but shame is clearly beyond them.
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.
These people stole a Palestinian home near Bethlehem in the West Bank.
The purple shirt seems like their leader, his name is Ephraim. Another one is called Ariel Catan, not sure which one.
Make them famous.
🇵🇸 This morning activists attempted to retake a Palestinian house stolen by the settlers near Bethlehem in the West Bank.
They removed the Israeli flags the settlers set up on the building and replaced them with Palestinian ones. In response, settler-terrorists fired live ammunition at the activists.
Israeli army supported the settlers and expelled the rightful landowners from the land.
Have you ever seen London’s Police Commissioner or any senior civil servant riding around in a royal buggy? When this is the mindset in a country deep in debt, where millions are struggling with poverty, how can we ever expect the country to progress?
It's not cricket. @ImranKhanPTI should be released immediately by Pakistan’s authorities. His arbitrary detention casts a dark shadow on respect for democracy and rule of law in Pakistan: https://t.co/5RuDZ0k8cO
New PM Andy Burnham says Labour “got it wrong” by supporting the genocide in Gaza
OK. Then free all the Palestine Action prisoners who got it right and acted to stop the genocide
The whole country knows what Jeremy Corbyn's front door looks like. The media used to camp outside it every day.
Nigel Farage hasn't received even 5% of the treatment Jeremy Corbyn faced.
Back to back 17th place finishes in the Premier League and dropping £85m on a relegated player.
Villa who have finished in Europe in each of the last 4 seasons and won the Europa League this season have to sell to buy.
Both of #AVFC's owners are billionaires.
Sad.