Reflected Soul

[Orya Maqbool Jan @OryaMaqboolJan]

حامد میر سے جب یہ سوال کیا گیا کہ تم “قومی اثاثہ “ فیصل واڈا کو اپنے پروگرام میں اکیلے بٹھا کر کیوں انٹرویو کرتے ہو ، تو اس نے کس ڈھٹائی سے جواب دیا کہ ایسے ہی عمران خان بھی ایک قومی اثاثہ تھا اور ہم اس ایک اکیلے ایم این اے کو بٹھا کر پروگرام میں سوال کیا کرتےتھے
اپنے اس جواب پروہ تنہائی میں ضرور شرمسارہوا ہو گا ۔ کیا منور حسن ، قاضی حسین احمد ، سراج الحق ، اختر مینگل ، محمود اچکزئی ، ولی خان ساجد میر ، مولانا سمیع الحق ، رسول پلیجو وغیرہ یہ سب بھی قومی اثاثہ تھے۔ یہ لیڈر بھی تو کبھی ایک ایم این اے والی یا کبھی بغیر کسی ایم این اے کی پارٹی کے سربراہ تھےاور آپ انہیں بھی پروگرامُ میں اکیلے میں بلاتے تھے ۔
کیا یہ سب فیصل واڈا کی جیسے تھے جس شخص کو پاکستان میں دس لوگ بھی نہ جانیں اگر آپ کا چینل اسے نہ دکھائے ۔ آپ نے اپنے دفاع میں عمران خان کا قد چھوٹا کرنے کی جو کوشش کی ہے ، لگتا ہے آپ جرنلزم تو چھوڑ انصاف کے بنیادی معیارات بھی بھول گئے ہیں ۔
عمران خان سیاست میں آنے سے پہلے بھی اس قوم کا ایک اثاثہ تھا اور آج بھی ہے اورآپ جیسے نوکری پیشہ شکست خوردہ صحافی اسے پاکستان کی تاریخ سے اب نہیں کھرچ سکتے ۔
کاش آپ جواب میں یہ سچ بول لیتے کہ آپ فیصل واڈا کو اپنے شو میں کیوں بلاتے ہو ، کاش ایسا ہو جاتا

[Reflected Soul @SoulReflected]

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[Ahmed Ali Khan @ahmedalikhan01]

یہ کام فری میں نہیں ہوتے۔ اس میں محنت بھی لگتی ہے اور پیسہ بھی۔ آپ کم از کم اس کو زیادہ سے زیادہ شیئر کر سکتے ہیں ۔

[Enkidu Reborn @enkidureborn]

دباؤ اپنی جگہ ، کچھ غلطیاں کمزوریاں اپنی جگہ ، سہیل آفریدی نے بہترین حکمت عملی کا مظاہرہ کیا ہے۔ باڈی لینگوئج بھی قابل دید ہے۔ گزشتہ روز پشاور اور آج چارسدہ موبلائزیشن کو بھی بریک نہیں لگائی اور ساٹھ ہزار اہلکار اسلام آباد و گرد و نواح بلوا کر فوج کو بند گلی میں بھی پھنسا دیا ہے۔

عمران خان کی تحریک کا نچوڑ ہی یہ ہے کہ ایک ایسا شخص وزیراعلی ہے جو عمران خان کے خاندان سے نہیں۔ جو روایتی سیاستدان نہیں۔ جو کوئی جاگیردار یا نو دولتیا نہیں۔ مڈل کلاس ہے اور نوجوان ہے۔ سہیل آفریدی کی کامیابی ہمارے خوابوں کی تعبیر ہے۔

[Reflected Soul @SoulReflected]

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[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

There is little choice left for the people of Pakistan.

Either remain silent while their chosen leader is imprisoned. Whilst his family is detained, his party is suppressed and justice is denied - or come out peacefully and exercise their fundamental right to protest.

You can arrest families and threaten people with violence. But you cannot imprison 250 million Pakistanis or crush the will of a generation.

No regime is more powerful than its people. The world must watch as the people of Pakistan come together to demonstrate their plea for justice, even in the face of threats of violence.

Inshallah, Pakistan’s future will be decided by its people, not by criminals who rule through fear.

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Imran Khan's sisters arrested and detained and security forces seizing ministers in broad daylight.

The arrests come a week before a planned protest march by Khan’s PTI party.

Pakistan's Interior Minister said the government would do everything it could to stop the march.

[Dr. Shahbaz GiLL @SHABAZGIL]

سوشل میڈیا کے جوانوں مجھے آپ کی مدد درکار ہے۔ اس بائیکاٹ مہم کو پھیلانے میں۔ براہ مہربانی اس کو پھیلائیں۔

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

UPDATE: Further accounts are emerging from the police raids on the neighbouring homes of Imran Khan’s sisters, Aleema Khan and Dr Uzma Khan.

Sakeena, their 20-year-old niece, who was arrested and later released, says more than 200 police entered the properties, broke down Dr Uzma’s bedroom door and dragged staff from their quarters.

Aleema Khan’s two sons were also detained and, according to the family, released around three hours later.

[PTI @PTIofficial]

“Imran Khan is not in jail, in solitary confinement for more than three years now because of any corruption or crime. It is because the Pakistani Generals know that if they let him out, he will be carried aloft in the next election on a wave of support to a democratic victory.”- Former British Prime Minister @BorisJohnson

#FreeImranKhan

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

Brilliant article. Thank you @BorisJohnson.

https://t.co/IEO6C7ZFU0

[Ahmad Hassan Bobak @ahmad__bobak]

عمران خان کسی کرپشن یا جرم کی وجہ سے قید تنہائی میں نہیں ہیں، بلکہ جرنیل عمران خان سے خوفزدہ ہیں،

پاکستانی جرنیلوں کو معلوم ہے کہ اگر وہ عمران خان کو رہا کر دیں تو وہ انتخابات میں جمہوری فتح حاصل کر لیں گے،

سابق برطانوی وزیر اعظم بورس جانسن

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

Cummins: "I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves" https://t.co/oDNew8ZhAi

[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

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

Pakistan threatened Lord’s Test boycott after broadcaster Sky Sports telecast interview with Imran Khan’s two sons which was actually recorded at the Lord’s Long Room a day before the Test. PCB wanted SKY not to air the interview during Lunch break else they wouldn’t take the field post Lunch.
The 18-min interview done by Michael Atherton (one of the 21 captains to sign the letter to Pak PM) was shown and Pak did take the field too

#PakvsEng

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇰 Former PM Imran Khan’s sons say they’re genuinely scared they could lose their father in prison.

Kasim and Sulaiman spoke to Sky Sports at Lord’s, with their father’s portrait hanging right behind them. They haven’t seen him since 2022 and haven’t even spoken to him since March.

And what they’re describing is brutal.

They say he now spends more than 23 hours a day alone in a small cell, has lost 80% of the vision in one eye and is struggling with his health.

Kasim: “They are just blatantly trying to kill him in there.”

Even after the Supreme Court ordered him moved to a private hospital, his sons say he was taken to a government facility for a few hours and then sent straight back to jail.

The government of course denies mistreating him and says he has food, books, TV and space to exercise.

And here’s where it gets even more frustrating. After his sons spoke about all of this, the Pakistan Cricket Board complained to Sky over the interview.

Forget the politics for a second. These are two sons who just want to see their dad, talk to him and know if he’s okay.

Source: The Telegraph / Writer: Daniyal

[Samina Pasha @pasha_samina]

پاکستانیو! بچے پیدا نہ کرو۔
یہ اسپتالوں میں مر جائیں گے، یا گٹروں میں بہہ جائیں گے، یا اندھی ہوس کا نشانہ بن جائیں گے، یا کسی امیر زادے کی گاڑی تلے کچلے جائیں گے۔ یا بے روزگاری سے تنگ خود کشی کر لیں گے۔یا کسی احتجاج میں گولیوں سے بھون دئے جائیں گے۔

اس جہنم میں بچے پیدا نہ کرو

[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.