@Blahhhhhh34@ranasharry12 Lol. You forgot that the man was picked up and brutally beaten. His father used to plead, “At least tell me whether my son is alive or not.” So shut up and sit down.
@sherryrehman@WAF What a long lecture, when you could have simply condemned what was wrong. People like you should be the last ones demanding apologies from others. You’re part of a government accused of committing horrific crimes against women. So please, spare us the hypocrisy and sit down.
@AlifyaSohail They tweeted after people started tagging them. Nevertheless, they have been dead for the last 4 years, but they were all over our feeds during 2018-2022.
@eitakyliie Well, at least she’s travelling with her money. My country’s CM bought a plane with taxpayers' money ($42 million) and used it to attend her daughter’s graduation.🌚
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.
@yameiena Also, Pakistan’s nuclear program can’t be attributed to a single person. I mean he did play a significant role, but it was a team effort and people like Dr. Ishrat Usmani, Munir Ahmed, Rafi Chaudhry, Dr Samar Mubarakmand and many more played a crucial role.
@Ijussdontcare Are you a lawyer or what? The precondition for not holding a press conference was Khan being taken to Shifa, which did not happen in the first place. So no, they are not violating anything.
One of the Ali LARIJANI friend shared a story - The Other Side of Mr. Larijani. He writes;
A few months ago on an autumn afternoon at their home, I met his wife. We were supposed to talk about her mother, but throughout our entire conversation, "ALI" never left her lips.
She said: "When Ali is not home, it feels like my hands have been cut off! When Ali is here, he does all the household chores. Without me even asking him to, he moves the groceries. He cleans the vegetables, chicken & washes the dishes."
My mouth hung open at the thought: how could a man who carries Iran's national security on his shoulders outside the home be able to clean chicken and wash dishes at home.
She further said, "Ali hadn't been home for six months. Ever since the twelve-day war, he was no longer allowed to have a normal life."
A man whom the world's superpowers had put a bounty on to kill, was a romantic soul with the heart of a young man, a seasoned demeanour & calm maturity.
Farideh said, "Ali never took a salary from the parliament, nor from his later responsibilities. His salary for years has been the same as a university professor, from which he even deposits a portion each month into the public treasury so as not to be indebted. She said when we were buying this house, we needed money, and my daughter suggested, "Dad, couldn't you take your back pay from the parliament?" But Ali refused and said: "We owe this country so much. I have no claims."
These words were said by someone who, from the first days of the revolution, had not spent a moment in comfort and had run and toiled for Iran.
She said, "Ali's family was above my family, and they had plenty of land and sheep in the north. But the house they had chosen for us after marriage was so small that Agha Shaheed Motahhari (Father of Fareed) had to buy two sofa sets and two carpets for his daughter's dowry to fill the empty spaces in the house."
Those same sofa sets and carpets that were still in Ali and Farideh's home, and they had no other sofas besides the ones that Martyr Motahhari had bought forty years ago. It wasn't strange at all.
Farideh said: "In these forty-something years since my father's martyrdom, Ali has been a father to me, and a husband, and a friend, and a teacher. I can't bear to see even a single hair missing from his head."
Last night, when I read the news of Mr. Ali's martyrdom with the phrase "Ali Larijani has been martyred," I wasn't worried about him at all, or even the revolution. But I thought a lot about Ms. Farideh. About a woman whose father Morteza was martyred one day & yesterday her friend, teacher, and husband Ali—who, when he was not home, feels like Farideh's hands have been severed—and even her son Morteza, who had a beautiful voice and gave a lovely call to prayer.
I am sure that a single sigh from this woman could uproot America and Israel.
Priyanka Chopra PR is trying to put out the fire after her Oscar appearance. Key tactic blame Pakistani people. Well I’m Indian and I am callling her out for her hypocrisy. Becoming UNICEF ambassador for children and being quite about plight of Gaza children - unforgivable
It feels ironic to see Pakistani actors praising Javier Bardem for speaking about Palestine on the Oscars stage, when many of our own so called actors stay silent about Imran Khan and the situation in our own country.