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.
جو شعور اچھے دنوں میں بات نہ س��جھ سکا ، اب گھبرا کر کیا کرے گا اس کو دیکھ لیں گے لیکن اتنا ضرور یاد رہے کہ مقابلہ کس سے ہے، تیاری کچھ تو رہے۔
خوشامدی نوکروں سے فرصت مل جائے تو جان لیں کہ یہ 2024 والا عمران خان نہیں، اس سے کئی گنا طاقتور دیومالا��ی کردار بن چکا ہے۔
پہلے وہ جیل نہیں گیا تھا، سختی نہیں جھیلی تھی، مار نہیں کھائی تھی، ہم صدق دل سے سمجھتے رہے کہ وہ جیل نہیں بھگت پائے گا لیکن آج وہ سب کو غلط ثابت کر چکا ہے، اس کے لوگوں پر وہ نہیں گزری تھی جو گزر چکی ہے۔
اس سختی کے بعد وہ کیا بن چکا ہو گا اور باہر آ کر کیا کرے گا، کوئی نہیں جانتا۔
ممکن ہے وہ ولی بن چکا ہو اور سب کو معاف کر دے اور یہ بھی کہ دنیا چنگیز خان کو بھول جائے۔ جو کچھ بھی ہو گا وہ معمول نہیں ہو گا، جیسے پہلے ہوتا تھا۔
یہ بھی یاد رکھیں کہ وزیر اعظم کا عہدہ اس وقت اس کے سامنے کوئی چیز نہیں، وہ تو معین قریشی بھی بن گیا تھا، بلخ شیر مزاری بھی، میر ظفراللہ جمالی بھی اور شہباز شریف بھی۔
اس وقت وہ لوگوں کا خواب بن چکا ہے۔ اس خواب کو سوائے اس کے اور کوئی نہیں توڑ سکتا۔ وہ تب ہی ہو گا اگر لوگ اسے نکالیں۔ وہ کب ہو گا یا نہیں ہو گا �� کچھ نہیں پتہ۔
جو کچھ ہوا ہے بہت ابنارمل تھا اس کا ردعمل بھی نارمل نہیں ہو گا۔
معمول کی سیاست اب وہ نہیں رہی، دہکتا آتش فشاں بن چکا ہے۔ ہوش کریں، ہوش۔
لڑائی جذبات سے نہیں، وسائل، حیثیت اور سیاسی طاقت سے لڑی جاتی ہے، جو باقی بچی نہیں۔
ہر مرتبہ قسمت بچا کر لے جائے گی یہ کہاں لکھا ہے ؟
The sons of the imprisoned former leader of Pakistan Imran Khan told CNN they fear for their father's health, claiming authorities in the South Asian country are preventing them from seeing him.
Pakistan's government said it "categorically rejects" the claim that Khan has faced a communication blackout or been denied access to his family, lawyers and doctors. Read more: https://t.co/FZSRdjTfaC
در سومین سالگرد زندانی شدن عمران خان، یک پرسش اساسی این است که آیا این اقدام به سود کشور بوده است یا خیر. پاکستان در سیاست خارجی به برخی موفقیتها دست یافته است، اما آیا مردم پاکستان و خود کشور نسبت به سه سال پیش وضعیت بهتری دارند؟ پاسخ آشکارا منفی است.
اقتصاد در وضعیتی بحرانی و ناپایدار قرار دارد و د��لت با درماندگی در جستوجوی راه نجات مالی است. بلوچستان وارد مرحلهای از شورش گسترده شده است. کشمیر تحت اداره پاکستان با خشونتهای شدید روبهرو است. وضعیت خیبر پختونخوا نیز تفاوتی ندارد.
حتی در عرصه سیاست خارجی نیز عقبگردهایی دیده میشود؛ روابط با افغانستان و هند بدتر شده است.
در مجموع، وضعیت بسیار وخیم است و نیاز به یک بازتنظیم اساسی وجود دارد. این بازتنظیم باید آشتی و مصالحه داخلی را نیز در بر بگیرد.
PAKISTAN: Ahead of the third anniversary of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ongoing detention, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said:
“For three years, Pakistan’s authorities have systematically denied Imran Khan the right to a fair trial, subjected him to prolonged solitary confinement, and limited his access to medical care and visitation rights. He has not been allowed to meet his family for more than eight months and his vision has reportedly deteriorated significantly. Both he and his wife, Bushra Bibi Khan, have now been denied regular access to legal counsel since December 2025."
Read more: https://t.co/hc6eKnIITh