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.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to be shifted from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad under a Supreme Court order for medical examination and treatment.
As anticipation grows over his transfer, supporters have been seen scattering flower petals along roads outside the hospital, welcoming the possibility of Khan arriving there.
The Supreme Court had ordered the transfer within 48 hours, while the government has challenged the portion of the order requiring treatment at a private hospital.
BREAKING: Pakistan's former prime minister, Imran Khan, is being taken from Adiala prison to hospital, following a Supreme Court order that he can have a medical examination, according to local media reports.
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یہ ہو کیا رہا ہے اس ملک میں ؟
یہ آخر چاہتے کیا ہیں ؟
سپریم کورٹ کی 48 گھنٹے کی ڈیڈ لائن رات 12 بجے ختم ہو گی ۔ لیکن اب تک عمران خان کو اسپتال منتقل نہیں کیا گیا۔ یہ اوقات ہے اس ملک میں عدالتی فیصلوں کی ۔
26 ویں اور 27 ویں ترمیم کر کے عدالتی نظام پہلے ہی مسمار کر دیا تھا اس کے بعد اگر ججوں نے عمران خان کو تین سال بعد ریلیف دے کر تھوڑی ہمت کی ہے تو اس ناجائز حکومت نے فیصلہ ردی کی ٹوکری میں پھینک دیا ہے ۔ دنیامیں جتنی مرضی سفارتکاری کے جھنڈے گاڑھیں جب تک اپنے لوگوں کو انصاف نہیں دیں گے دنیا عزت نہیں کرے گی ۔ نہ آپ کی نہ آپ کے عدالتی نظام کی
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Spain treated every single person with dignity and respect on this tragic situation.
We defend human rights.
We are not US. Of course we are not genocides as Netanyahu.
We are spanish and we are proud of who we are.
یہ نوجوان لاہور کا محمد صائم ہے،تین بچوں کا باپ ہے، آج زندگی اور موت کی کشمکش میں ریاض کے جگر ٹرانسپلانٹ سینٹر میں بے یارومددگار پڑاہے ۔ڈاکٹرز کے مطابق اس کی زندگی بچانے کا واحد طریقہ جگر کا ٹرانسپلانٹ ہے ۔سعودی عرب کے ڈاکٹرز نے مشورہ دیا ہے کہ اسے ائیر ایمبولینس کے ذریعے فورا پاکستان لے جائیں جہاں اس کی فیملی اسے جگر کا عطیہ کرے تو اس کی جان بچ سکتی ہے
حکومت سے درخواست ہے کہ اپنے شہری کی جان بچانے کے لیے فوری طور پر اپنا کردار ادا کرے اور صائم کو سعودی عرب سے PKLI لاہور منتقل کرنے کے لیے اقدامات اٹھائے۔ ممکن ہے کہ تین معصوم بچوں کو ان کا باپ لوٹایا جا سکے
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