“My brother and I have not been able to visit our father for years. For the past six months, we haven’t even spoken to him. What my father is going through is a violation of his human rights.” - Sulaiman Khan, son of Imran Khan, addressing a press conference.
The Supreme Court has ordered that Imran Khan be allowed to speak with his children. Yet the authorities continue to deny him this basic right, in addition to refusing visas that would allow @Kasim_Khan_1999 and Sulaiman Khan to travel to Pakistan to see their father.
#FreeImranKhan
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.
ہم ربیع الاوّل مناتے ہیں، ہم خوشیاں مناتے ہیں، ہم پٹاخے بھی چلاتے ہیں، مگر کیا ہم ان کی زندگی کے مطابق عمل بھی کرتے ہیں؟ عمران خان
#TorturingImranKhanIsACrime
قائد اعظم نے ہمیں انگریزوں سے آزادی لے کر دی تھی، عمران خان نے حقیقی آزادی کی تحریک جو شروع کر رکھی ہے، وہ انگریزوں کے غلاموں سے آزادی کی تحریک ہے-
#آزادی_یا_شہادت
#PAKWatch🇵🇰: Today, TENS OF THOUSANDS flooded the streets of Swat to join Aleema Khan's call for the IMMEDIATE RELEASE of her brother, IMRAN KHAN.
PAKISTAN WANTS ITS NATIONAL HERO FREED.
FREE IMRAN KHAN.
@Parizaad_reborn انہوں نے جب بھی عمران خان پر گندے الزام لگائے وہ پلٹ کر انہی پر واپس ائے۔ اس یہودی ایجنٹ کہتے رہے لیکن خود یہودی ایجنٹ ثابت ہوئے۔ زنا کے الزام لگاتے رہے لیکن ان کی اولادیں یہ گند کرتے ہوئے پکڑی گئیں
مریم نواز نے اسحاق ڈار کے نواسے کو بچانے کیلئے پنجاب پولیس کے ذریعے اس روڈ سے سبھی CCTV فوٹیج غائب کروا دی تھی
مریم نواز اور ن لیگ کا بھیانک چہرہ سب کے سامنے آ چکا ھے
(صدیق جان)