First trailer for 'IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME', starring Danielle Brooks and J. Alphonse Nicholson.
The film follows a boy who attempts to connect with his distant father while sensing mysterious visions, from airplanes & Greek gods that follow him through his everyday world.
In theaters on September 18.
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.
The reason comedians are some of the most intelligent people to ever exist is because they have the pattern recognition of scientists, they can delve into philosophical rants but what’s truly amazing is their ability to explain this into the simplest terms
a little something from the archives.. early 2010s pti.. families in jalsas, rallies.. young men & women having fun, participating in politics... punjabis, pashtuns, kashmiris, balochs, sindhis, muhajirs, gilgitis.. all with a naïve little dream in their eyes..
It turns out that Reuters in Pakistan, Al Jazeera, and a bunch of other so-called journalists are just copying forwards directly from Pakistani military WhatsApp groups and posting them as news.
Thats why all the leaks sound the same,its was all propaganda.
The word “fascism” has been completely scrubbed from desi journalshits dictionaries. Infact even if they spell it out on their devices, autocorrect changes it to “condemnable”
For Pakistan to play a constructive role in the peace process, it has to:
1. Run the peace process discreetly; not like a wedding event which it has been so far.
2. Stop the leaks. It’s embarrassing at this point how much “official sources” are leaking critical info to the press to hype things up. It’s unprofessional and undiplomatic.
3. Stop trying to desperately “win” the peace process and focus instead on “making” peace.
4. Stop making this peace process about itself. There will be time to claim credit once peace deal is done. At the moment it’s making Pakistan’s role and intentions questionable.
5. Stop using the garb of the dialogue to shutdown Islamabad, crackdown on dissent, and run troll brigades against anyone taking a different viewpoint.
Much of Pakistan’s behavior in the peace process is rooted in legitimacy issues of the the current regime + desperation for global relevance that can help the regime distract the public from a total governance and economic collapse of the country.
Pakistan maybe able to secure a peace deal between the US and Iran, but its troubles back home are only going to grow deeper with every geopolitical adventure.