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
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.
Rather than spending money lobbying in #USA. Pakistan's military dominated government should take 3 steps: 1. reach an agreement with @PTI, 2. release @ImranKhanPTI, who is in Jail on bogus charges, and, 3. take these measures by January 20th. These steps will save #Pakistan and avoid a meltdown. They also would help Islamabad's relation with the @realDonaldTrump administration.
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Al-Qadir Trust case in his own words. Not beneficiary, not owner, no illegal gratification taken or given, no authority misused, no loss caused and no crime committed - period.
دنیا کی تاریخ کے سیاہ بابوں میں لکھا جائے گا کہ ایک اسلامی ریاست کے سربراہ کو اس بات کی سزا ملی کہ وہ اپنی قوم کو ”سیرت النبی ﷺ“ کی تعلیم دینا چاہتا تھا۔ اس پر بےبنیاد جھوٹے مقدمات اور الزامات کی بارش کی گئی، اور یہ سازش کرنے والے ہاتھ اپنوں کے ہی تھے۔
#عمران_کا_گناہ_محبت_رسول_اللہ
مذاکرات کی نشست 15 کو ہوگی، ہم کوئی ڈیل نہیں کریں گے، اس مذاکرات کی وجہ سے موخر کیا گیا ہے تو یہ بالکل غلط ہے، عمران خان کا موقف دو ٹوک ہے وہ اپنی بے گناہی کو عدالت میں ثابت کریں گے، سلمان اکرم راجہ۔۔۔!!!
مطیع اللہ جان کو پاکستانی ملٹری اسٹبلشمنٹ نے اغواہ کر لیا۔ مطیع کا قصور یہ تھا کہ مطیع شہادتوں کے اصل نمبرز پر انوسٹیگیشن کر رہا تھا۔ مطیع بھی چاہتا تو ضمیر فروشوں کی طرح خاموش رہتا لیکن اس نے ظلم کے خلاف بولنے کا فیصلہ کیا۔ اس اغواہ کی مزمت۔ اللہ آپکا حامی و ناصر ہو۔
#NewProfilePic
It’s important to ask the authorities why they fired real bullets on peaceful protestors! For those who can change their DP, please consider changing to this picture.
#IslamabadMassacre
In the wake of Final Call, our workers sacrificed their lives and faced brutalities, shelling, teargas and bullets, with scores injured. A massacre which will be remembered in civil and political rights struggles. We demand justice while holding the government responsible. Our prayers and condolences to the families of all those who died. God bless.