Umair Kashi

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

Cricket legend Imran Khan is rotting to death in a tiny jail cell in Pakistan. It's time Britain used its influence to help free him

https://t.co/Yf5eCx2fAi

[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.

[Umair Kashi @UmairDaKing]

#ImranKhan happy birthday to real prime minister of Pakistan.

[Siddique Jan @SdqJaan]

اس تصویر سے کچھ لوگوں کو اتنی تکلیف کیوں ہے؟آپ ان کچھ لوگوں کو پہچانتے ہیں؟

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

ہمارے والد نے اپنی زندگی کا زیادہ تر وقت پاکستان میں گزارا - ہم سے دور ۔ اس لیے نہیں کہ اُنہیں ایسا کرنا پڑا، بلکہ اس لیے کہ انہوں نے ایک کرپٹ نظام کے خلاف کھڑے ہونے کا فیصلہ کیا۔

وہ ہر روز ہمارے ساتھ ایک باپ کے طور پر موجود نہیں تھے، لیکن پاکستان کے لیے وہ ہمیشہ ایک رہنما بن کر کھڑے رہے۔ انہوں نے اس ملک کو سب کچھ دیا: اسپتال، یونیورسٹیاں، اور انصاف کی ایک تحریک۔

انہیں پیشکش ہوئی کہ وہ اپنی باقی زندگی سکون سے گزاریں - ہمارے ساتھ انگلینڈ میں چہل قدمی کریں یا کرکٹ کھیلیں۔
لیکن انہوں نے اس کے بجائے ایک اندھیری قید میں بند رہنے کو چُنا۔

اُن کی قربانی پاکستان کے لیے ہے۔
اُن کی طاقت - پاکستان کی عوام ہے۔

[Umair Kashi @UmairDaKing]

@PureGym bradord idle is closed again with out any notice. Looking for a complaint.

[Umair Kashi @UmairDaKing]

#MandateThieves

[Ahmad Hassan Bobak @ahmad__bobak]

250 million Pakistanis stand with @RichardGrenell

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I remain deeply concerned about the ongoing detention of Imran Khan.

His disgraceful treatment is an affront to the democratic rights of the people of Pakistan.

We must continue to speak up for the release of all political prisoners everywhere.

[Imran Riaz Khan @ImranRiazKhan]

Big problems are brewing for the pakistani establishment. The views of the incoming Trump administration specifically @RichardGrenell are quite clear. Will Pakistan's weak establishment be able to take on the mighty American regime for its petty personal gains? This time they will not be facing peaceful political protestors. It’s going to be hard and huge.

[Umair Kashi @UmairDaKing]

@khanadan99 2

[Umair Kashi @UmairDaKing]

@khanadan99 Imran Khan

[Umair Kashi @UmairDaKing]

@khanadan99 fake PM

[Haider Ali @Haider4PTI]

@RichardGrenell When bullets are fired at real men,
instead of running away, they lift up their nation's morale by raising their hand. They will fight to the end.

The Deep State/Establishment may not like Trump & Khan, but they are the People's Choice.

#FreeImranKhan
#FreePakistanKhan

[Umair Kashi @UmairDaKing]

#گولی_کیوں_چلائی

[Dr. Shahbaz GiLL @SHABAZGIL]

Retweet to participate for Imran Khan's safety :

We urge the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights @volker_turk to immediately send a delegation to Pakistan to directly investigate the condition of @ImranKhanPTI in prison as credible sources reveal his life is in imminent danger by the Pakistani state and the illegitimate government of Pakistan, who recently committed #IslamabadMassacre by firing on unarmed peaceful protesters in Islamabad on 26 November 2024.

The United Nations has itself demanded the immediate release of @ImranKhanPTI who has championed human rights and democracy in a 28 year ongoing struggle.

Further instability and chaos in Pakistan will negatively impact the world. We urge the United Nations @UN to uphold its duty to protect human rights and act now.

[Adil Raja @soldierspeaks]

شہید فوجی جوانوں کی لاشیں کھوتے پر لاد کر لائی جارہی ہیں مگر فوجی کھوتی مریم نواز کو یورپ ٹبر سمیت چھٹی گزارنے کے لئے پاکستانی فضائیہ کی ائیر ایمبولینس جیٹ طیارے اے 319 میں عوامی خرچ پر بیجھا گیا

[Niazi @Faruqniazi]

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[Shayan Ali @ShayanA2307]

When the Chor sees the Chor Hunter