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[Financial Times @FT]

Pakistan's imprisoned former leader may not survive his imprisonment unless he's given proper medical treatment, one of his sons said. https://t.co/qa06Whhw0K

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

Former England captain Michael Atherton has revealed why he joined a group of 21 former international cricketers in calling on #Pakistani authorities to ensure imprisoned former #Pakistan captain and Prime Minister #ImranKhan receives proper medical treatment.

Read here 🔗https://t.co/Y5NoxBybz1

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[Firstpost @firstpost]

Jemima Goldsmith, an English film producer and the former wife of Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, has urged the UK government to intervene over his alleged treatment in prison.

[Mehbooba Mufti @MehboobaMufti]

I first met Imran Khan in London with my father in 1994. His passion and conviction about bringing positive change to Pakistan deeply impressed my father. Yet when Imran Khan became Prime Minister, his government too became part of the same political culture. His opponents were pursued with the same zeal with which he is being pursued today.

https://t.co/pmVfCFMxZm

[A_Mir_Za @ITheCoffeeGuy]

Free @ImranKhanPTI

#Oustedbutnotdefeated

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Cricket legends have called on the Pakistani government to provide proper medical care for Imran Khan, who has been in prison on corruption charges since 2023.

“Our aims are to make that humanitarian plea, really for both his treatment and his health.”

[Iltija Mufti @IltijaMufti_]

Mehbooba Mufti Sahiba writes on Imran Khan’s inhumane incarceration -

‘Perhaps the release of Imran Khan followed by a genuinely free, fair & transparent political process, could become the beginning of that change in Pakistan.

Sometimes returning to the pavilion is not the end of the innings. It can be the moment when the game itself is finally changed’

https://t.co/Xhl9FKUmS3

[ANI Digital @ani_digital]

"We want him to get best treatment": Kapil Dev on letter to Pakistan PM over "friend" Imran Khan's health

Read @ANI Story |
https://t.co/ALuDHzD2uY

#KapilDev #Pakistan #ImranKhanHealth #ImranKhan

[cyril almeida @cyalm]

If they're firing here, in full view of cameras... what are they doing in the periphery...

[AJE Sport @AJE_Sport]

Twenty-one cricket captains request PM Sharif's government to ensure Khan is given timely and independent medical care. https://t.co/6EsOVbcTBk

[TOI Sports @toisports]

Former India captain Kapil Dev has joined 21 former international captains in urging Pakistan to provide jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan with proper medical care and humane conditions.
https://t.co/kv1DD08OOZ

[Survivor @Wasim_wazir]

Thank you all. 🙏🥰

[PTI @PTIofficial]

Military leaders crushing elected governments is a terrifying pattern. Egypt saw this when General Sisi imprisoned Mohamed Morsi, starving him until he died in court.

They are running the Morsi playbook step by step.

Now Imran Khan is in a Pakistani prison under General Asim Munir, warning his family of a similar fate. It’s not a historical playbook; it’s about a man’s life who is the democratic choice of millions of Pakistanis.

Morsi’s slow-motion tragedy was ignored by the world, and Pakistan must not follow the same dark playbook.

#ContemptOfCourt
#StopTortureOnNationalHero

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Imran Khan must get 'humane treatment and proper medical care' in prison, ex-cricket captains urge Pakistan

https://t.co/MFWnmxNmHl

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Imran Khan’s former wife, @Jemima_Khan, on UK silence concerning Khan’s ongoing imprisonment in Pakistan.

“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”.

[Immi Can @IHameedQ]

Dear @CanadianPM @MarkJCarney!

I ask you the same question as @Jemima_Khan
How much longer will 🇨🇦 remain silent in @ImranKhanPTI’s illegal incarceration? There’ve been grave concerns among Canadian-Pakistanis RE: #HumanRightsViolations & #TransnationalRepression by 🇵🇰 regime

[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

[Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB]

The incarceration and torture of Imran Khan and others was the decapitation of the first truly sovereign leadership of Pakistan.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Pakistan: “A lion trapped in a cage: Imran Khan’s ongoing solitary confinement is an inhuman cruelty. The international order has remained conspicuously silent about Khan’s ordeal, but a coalition of cricket captains remains hopeful." https://t.co/h8kB2WaqzV

[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.