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.
آگر زیادہ نہیں تو کم از کم ایک ٹویٹ عمران خ��ن کی علاج کے لئے ضرور کریں۔ مطالبہ کریں کہ شوکت خانم کے ڈاکٹرز کی موجودگی میں خان صاحب کو فوری شفا انٹرنیشنل منتقل کر دیا جائے۔
سوشل میڈیا اس پر ضرور آواز اُٹھائیں
ایک وفادار بہن کا اپنے بہادر بھائی کو خراج تحسین۔
ترجمہ:
تم سفارتی مصروفیات کی چمکتی روشنیوں میں نظر نہ بھی آؤ،
وہ لوگ بھی تمہیں بھول جائیں جنہیں تم اقتدار میں لائے،
تم چاہے وہ سب حاصل نہ کر سکے جس کی تمہیں خواہش تھی، اس لیے تکلیف میں بھی ہو سکتے ہو،
لیکن یاد رکھو:
تم ہمارے دلوں میں بستے ہو، ہماری دعاؤں میں ہو، اور ہماری چھوٹی سی جدوجہد کا حصہ ہو۔
ہم تمہارے لیے بولیں گے، تمہارے لیے دعا کریں گے، اور جو کچھ بھی ہم سے بن پڑے گا کریں گے،
کیونکہ تم نے اپنی پوری زندگی بھر جو کچھ بھی کر سکتے تھے، وہ کیا!
ہم تو بہنیں ہیں ہم کبھی بھی اپنے بھائی پر Compromised نہیں کریں گے۔ ہم اپنے بھائی کے لئے آخری حد تک جائیں گے
یہ ویڈیو آج ہر کسی کے ٹائم لائن پر ہونی چاہیئے ♥️
Imran Khan has raised serious concerns about his health and prison conditions. Barrister Salman Safdar briefed the media about Imran Khan’s untreated vision loss, denial of access to personal doctors, and prolonged solitary confinement for both him and his wife.
Barrister Safdar further added that Bushra Khan is also suffering from eye problems and the same board that examined Imran Khan would examine her.
Both Imran Khan and Bushra Khan are being treated extremely inhumanely in their arbitrary detention. Both of them must be granted immediate medical attention in the presence of their family and personal physicians.
#SaveImranKhansEyesight
علیمہ خان کا خدشہ 🚨
اگر عمران خان کو زہر نہیں دے رہے ہیں تو پھر ان کو ڈر کیوں لگتا ہے کہ ہم بلڈ ٹیسٹ کروا لینگے، ہمیں خدشات ہے کہ کیا وجہ ہے ذاتی ڈاکٹرز کو ملنے نہیں دئے جا رہے ہیں۔
سوشل میڈیا اس پر بھرپور آواز اٹھائیں
دانستہ غفلت اور سراسر غیر انسانی سلوک کے باعث عمران خان کی بینائی کو سنگین خطرات لاحق ہیں۔
ہنگامی مطالبات: شفاء انٹرنیشنل ہسپتال میں فوری منتقلی، ذاتی معالجین اور اہل خانہ تک رسائی، اور علاج بابت رازداری کا خاتمہ کیا جائے۔
#SaveImranKhansEyesight
ڈاکٹر عاصم کی اپیل 🚨
عمران خان کو فوری ریٹینا اسپیشلسٹ کے علاوہ اپنے دیگر طبی مسائل کے مکمل جائزے کے لیے کسی اعلیٰ اسپتال جیسے شفا انٹرنیشنل اسلام آباد، میں فوری ��ور مکمل طبی معائنے کی ضرورت ہے