"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؟"
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.
عمران خان کو خدانخواستہ کچھ ہوا تو آرمی چیف، جعلی وزیراعظم، چیف جسٹس سپریم کورٹ اور جتنے بھی لوگ جو ابھی اس پوزیشن پر ہیں وہ عمران خان کو ریلیف دے سکتے ہیں اور علاج کروا سکتے یہ سب ذمہ دار ہونگے،
وزیراعلی @SohailAfridiISF
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سائفر کی اصل کاپی امریکہ میں شائع ہوگئی
جنرل باجوہ مریم نواز جلسوں میں سائفرکو جھٹلاتےرہےحقیقت واضح ہوگئی کہ بیرونی حکم پرپاکستان کی اینٹ سےاینٹ بجادی گئی اب اگرفوج میں واقعی احتساب کا قانون ہے تو جنرل باجوہ کیخلاف مقدمہ چلایا جائیگا؟؟؟
The secrecy and willful neglect of Imran Khan’s medical condition by this illegitimate military regime are putting his eyesight at serious risk.
Imran Khan must immediately be transferred to Shifa International Hospital for an independent and transparent medical evaluation and provided treatment under the care of his personal physicians and his family.
#ImranKhanMedicalCareDenied
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#FreeImranKhan