Saima Aslam

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@daniel86cricket Is there a question here

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@daniel86cricket Without a doubt

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@patcummins30 Thank you so much

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

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

[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.

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@ImranRiazKhan 100% agree he does not need to prove anything take the deal go to london and live his life

[Imran Riaz Khan @ImranRiazKhan]

عمران خان کو سب سے پہلے اپنی صحت کا خیال کرنا چاہیے۔ مزید کچھ ثابت کرنے کی ضرورت نہیں ہے۔

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@cyalm No

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

# 85% vision loss

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@AjayJadeja171 Respect 🙏

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@ifrahmaskan @ImranKhanPTI I 100% agree he is sacrificing for who this qaum who a day after the bomb blast celebrated Basant. He should think of himself and go live the rest of his life in peace

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@adeelraja May Allah exalt her ranks and reunite her with her son in Jannat ul Firdous Ameen 😭

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@insharifain Subhan Allah

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@ThisHaroon Be careful Haroon

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@AsadAToor Wah could not have been summarized better

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@adeelraja Aapne haq ada kiya hai dosti ka

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@adeelraja It still feels so sad may Allah exalt his ranks Ameen

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@hafeezullah_k Were you not their biggest supporter

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

I’ve typed and deleted so many words to try to describe the pain, anger, and guilt. Just read his.

We will miss you Anas. We bear witness to your sacrifice and against your murderer.

May Allah have mercy on you and reunite you with all the pure souls before you.

[Saima Aslam @SaimasMekaal]

@nadia_a_mirza No you don’t