Now here is a thought-provoking address by the PM (not elected, but selected). According to him, he and his Field Marshal are holding back the terrorists; otherwise, they will attack London and New York.
A few important historical and empirical facts need to be kept in perspective here.
First, the whole notion of “terrorism,” “Talibanisation,” and the use of violence domestically and regionally has been a hallmark of the Pakistani Establishment’s consistent policy, of course, historically in partnership with US/Saudi sponsorship for certain period.
Second, disenfranchisement, deprivation, and injustice breed terrorism.
The kind of Pakistan built over the past four years by this man and his Field Marshal, and the support this duo has received from the Trump global order, is the real danger, both domestically and globally. A population of 250 million that is disenfranchised and repressed is the real threat.
BTW, some more background on the man: when he was Chief Minister of Punjab, he was reported to have written to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, asking them not to attack cities in Punjab on the grounds that his government shared opposition to US policies. Reports later linked such correspondence to material recovered from Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound. His elder brother, Nawaz Sharif, has also faced allegations that he received funds from bin Laden for political purposes.
And it get’s worse.
My cousin Shahrez’s 2 children of 4 and 6 years old are now missing.
There is no limit to their cruelty. Complete disregard for humanity.
شوباز شریف کی میٹرک کی سند سامنے آئی ہے، پورا یقین ہے کہ یہ شوباز کی ہی سند ہے لیکن پھر بھی گروک سے کنفرم کر لیتے ہیں،
بتانا @grok یہ سند اصلی ہے یا جعلی ؟؟
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.
IK is the man who cares about his entire Nation!
The let down by Army Chiefs & the people who provide them support is simply that they are letting the tyrant dictators punish a noble man simply cuz he puts Pakistan’s interests first. They all will never feel their heads raised!
#PAKWatch🇵🇰: Aleema Khan CALLS OUT the TRUTH about IMRAN KHAN'S HEALTH:
"We demand that Imran Khan be immediately transferred to Shaukat Khanum International Hospital in the presence of family and personal doctors."
PAK = NO RULE OF LAW = FREE CAPTAIN PAKISTAN.
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Imran Khan has been kept in solitary confinement. He has been denied access to his family, his personal doctors, and even basic human rights including books, which he has not been allowed for the last five months.
Today, the 12th of May, CM Sohail Afridi, along with the entire KP Assembly, members of the Punjab Assembly, members of the National Assembly, and Senators from PTI, will come to Adiala Jail to stand in solidarity with their leader, Imran Khan.
#ImranKhanUnjustlyJailed
عمران خان پریشان تھے کہ انہیں نظر نہیں آ رہا ایک آنکھ سے،
ہم کیا کریں؟ ہم بے بس ہیں،
ہم بے بس نہیں ہیں ہم لڑیں گے اپنے بھائی کے لیے، علیمہ خان
اور صرف بہنیں ہی باقی رہ گئیں ہیں جنہیں اپنے بھائی کی فکر ہے،
لیڈرشپ نے تو عمران خان کو تنہا چھوڑ دیا ہے۔
عمران خان نے حکومت ختم ہونے سے پہلے ہی طاقت ور حلقوں کو کہا تھا۔
جب تک میری حکومت قائم ہے میں خاموش ہوں،
اگر میں حکومت سے الگ ہو گیا تو میں زیادہ خطرناک ہو جاؤ گا۔