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.
بڑی ڈیولپمنٹ 🚨
عمران خان کے لیے 22 کپتانوں کا دوسرا خط لکھ دیا گیا, خط میں حکومت پاکستان سے سپریم کورٹ کے حکم پر عمل درآمد کرنے کی درخواست کی گئی ہے!!
خط اسوقت ٹاپ ٹرینڈ پر ہے, اور خط اسوقت پوری دنیا دیکھ رہی ہے,🛑
پاکستان کا پوری دنیا میں کیا امیج بن رہا ہے؟؟
خط میں لکھا گیا ہے
پاکستان کی سپریم کورٹ نے حکم دیا تھا کہ عمران خان کو معائنے کے لیے ہسپتال منتقل کیا جائے، ایک ایسے میڈیکل بورڈ کے ذریعے جس میں ان کے اپنے ذاتی معالجین اور ان کی بہن ڈاکٹر عظمیٰ خان شامل ہوں۔
عدالت نے ہفتہ وار خاندانی ملاقاتیں بھی بحال کر دی تھیں۔ یہ بہت خوش آئند اقدامات تھے۔تشویشناک بات یہ ہے کہ مسٹر خان کا ہسپتال میں قیام صرف چند گھنٹے رہا۔
عدالت کی ہدایت کردہ بورڈ کے بجائے ایک سرکاری طور پر مقرر کردہ ٹیم نے ان کا معائنہ کیا، انہیں "طبی طور پر فٹ" قرار دیا، اور اس بورڈ کے اپنا کام مکمل کرنے سے پہلے ہی انہیں اڈیالہ جیل واپس بھیج دیا گیا۔ ان کے خاندان اور قانونی ٹیم کا کہنا ہے کہ یہ عدالت کے حکم کے مطابق نہیں ہے۔ہم پاکستان کے اندرونی قانونی عمل پر فیصلہ دینے کا دعویٰ نہیں کرتے۔ یہ ہمارا کام نہیں ہے، اور نہ ہی اس جذبے کے تحت ہم نے فروری میں لکھا تھا۔ لیکن ہم دوبارہ، احترام کے ساتھ، درخواست کرتے ہیں:
“It’s [Imran Khan’s eye] is not in good condition. We have no visibility into why it’s occurred. They’ve given us no medical reports. Everything is covered up.”
@Kasim_Khan_1999 and Sulaiman Khan in their latest interview with @Channel4News.
#FocusOnImranKhan
بریکنگ نیوز 🚨
اہم وقت عمران خان کے لیے بڑی آواز اٹھنے لگی 🛑
اقوامِ متحدہ نے پھر سے عمران خان پر پاکستان میں جاری ظلم و جبر کو غیر قانونی قرار دیا!!
اسکو پھیلائیں 🛑 انتہائی ضروری ہے 🛑
قاسم خان کی گفتگو 🚨
اس بار میرے والد پریشان نظر آئے، جس کی ایک بڑی وجہ ان کی آنکھ کی تکلیف بھی ہے۔
انہیں ہسپتال نہیں لے جایا جا رہا۔ میرے والد تو بس یہ کہہ رہے ہیں کہ چلو شکر ہے، کم از کم مجھے کبھی کبھار انجکشن تو لگ رہا ہے
You may not be visible amidst the dazzling lights of diplomatic errands, you may have been forgotten by people you put in power, you may be suffering because of not achieving what you would have wanted but remember
YOU ARE IN OUR HEARTS, IN OUR PRAYERS, AND PART OF OUR SMALL STRUGGLES
We will speak for you, pray for you, and do whatever we can because YOU DID WHAT YOU COULD ALL YOUR LIFE!
@ImranKhanPTI #imrankhan #ImranKhanHealthEmemrgency
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#SaveImranKhansEyesight
Outstanding video made by one of the youngest members of PTI Social Media Team!
“I will comeback” Imran Khan
The greatest comeback of the century
Perfect day to release it - April 10th; the day when Pakistan came together for Imran Khan & democracy.