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.
BREAKING NEWS: 22 Former international cricket captains have once again written a letter to Pakistan PM over the treatment for Imran Khan. They first wrote a similar letter in February and this one comes after Pak allegedly didn’t completely comply with SC directions.
They have laid down 3 demands:
1. That the medical board directed by the Supreme Court — including Mr Khan's own doctors — be permitted to complete a full and independent assessment of his health, particularly the reported loss of vision in his right eye.
2. That the weekly family visits reinstated by the Court be honoured without interruption or administrative delay.
3. That whatever the outcome of that medical assessment, the treatment recommended by it be provided without delay.
Three Indians - Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar are among the 22 former captains.
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PIDE’s latest Working Paper by Dr. Henna Ahsan (@HennaAhsan) and Dr. Amena Urooj examines unemployment amid Pakistan’s expanding higher-education system and growing youth population. Using Labour Force Survey data from 2001–02 to 2024–25 across 12 waves, the study applies an Age-Period-Cohort (APC) model to explore unemployment trends. Findings show that overall education do reduces unemployment , but younger, educated cohorts face significantly higher joblessness than older cohorts, particularly the ones with tertiary education. The results point to a growing graduate oversupply, skills mismatch, and a stagnant labor market demand, highlighting the need to better align education with labor market dynamics.
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Çocuklarımız bir gün "eskiden yapay zeka internet olmadan çalışmaz mıydı" diye şaşıracak.
Ama NVIDIA bugün o devri kapattı.
Basitçe anlatayım ne olduğunu.
Şimdiye kadar, örneğin ChatGPT'ye bir şey sorduğunuzda, o soru sizin bilgisayarınızda cevaplanmıyordu. Amerika'da dev bir veri merkezine gidiyor, orada işleniyor, size geri geliyordu. İnternetiniz giderse yapay zeka da giderdi. Verileriniz hep başkasının elindeydi.
Bugün NVIDIA bunu kökünden değiştiren bir çip tanıttı. Yapay zeka artık doğrudan bilgisayarın içinde yaşıyor. Bulut yok, internet şart değil, kimse verinizi görmüyor.
Birkaç ay önce bunu isteyen Mac mini gibi makineler kuruyordu. Şimdi aynı güç her dizüstüne giriyor. Her şey cihazın içinde dönüyor, dışarıyla hiç konuşmadan. Teknik adı lokal çalıştırmak, ama özü şu: yapay zeka tamamen sizin elinizde.
Yani yapay zeka kiraladığınız bir şey olmaktan çıkıp sahip olduğunuz bir şeye dönüşüyor. Tıpkı cebinizdeki hesap makinesi gibi, açtığınız an orada, internet olsun olmasın.
Bir avukat, bir öğretmen, bir asistan, hepsi cihazınızın içinde, size ait, kimseye hesap vermeden.
İnternet gelmeden önceki dünyayı hatırlıyor musunuz? Sonrası bambaşka oldu. Bu da tam öyle bir eşik.
Sadece bu sefer, çoğu insan olup biteni daha fark etmiyor gibi.
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@navift Spot on Sir!
I guess in Pakistan the problem is not about access to education anymore rather than it more now about the l quality of education.
The first step is to build strong foundation. We need to revamp our education methods and models, starting from the base i.e Schools.
At Rs.458/litre, Pakistan now has the 2nd most unaffordable petrol on earth relative to income. Only Ethiopia — with a $1.50 daily wage and $1.30/litre fuel — ranks worse. Every other country, including the poorest in Asia and Africa, is behind Pakistan on this measure.
This Laylatul Qadr, some Muslims are crying in sujood because of sins they cannot seem to escape. Some are addicted to things they hate. Some are ashamed of their past. Ya Allah, tonight grant them sincere tawbah, break every chain of sin, and replace their darkness with guidance.
Talking to leaders of Russia and Pakistan, I reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to peace in the region. The only way to end this war—ignited by the Zionist regime & US—is recognizing Iran’s legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm int'l guarantees against future aggression.