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Agile Practitioners | Introvert

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

I tweet about:

– Life abroad
– Pakistan politics
– Self-growth from real experience
– Minimal aesthetics

Follow if you like calm, honest takes.

[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.

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@app_sey_matlab So true 😭

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@shanzy_16 peshawar ofc

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@Bluesap26 Is that really the name of the drama? seems like such a weird title

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@mystiqueseoul I dont miss pakistan as much as i miss pakistani food. That’s the real struggle of living abroad 😭

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@faizannriaz https://t.co/HNKLCZ9Shh

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

Someone please go and tell the “zehni mareez” that the entire media, along with the nation, is desperately trying to get even a glimpse of the very person for whom you claimed, “We have drawn a red line around him.” The irony speaks for itself

#ImranKhan

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

Someone please go and tell the “zehni mareez” that the entire media, along with the nation, is desperately trying to get even a glimpse of the very person for whom you claimed, “We have drawn a red line around him.” The irony speaks for itself

#ImranKhan

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

It’s almost 1 AM in Singapore, but I still can’t sleep. Khan Sb has finally been allowed to get proper medical treatment at Shifa Hospital. After all this time, even this basic right feels like a big relief

#ImranKhan

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@JimmyVirkk Allah kare uae ko aqal aa jaye, hamari investments bhi stake par lagi hain aur hum bhi 😭

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

i thought india was only ahead of us in education. After listening to her, I realized they’re also ahead in civic awareness. They don’t wait for someone to fight for their rights, they become that someone. Meanwhile we’re still waiting for a savior from the comfort of our homes

[Razi Tahir @RaziTahirPak]

ایک ایک لفظ گویا دل میں اتر رہا ہے۔۔۔۔!!

جنتر منتر پر ایک خاتون مقرر نے جو گفتگو کی، اس گفتگو کا تعلق گو کہ انڈیا سے ہی ہے لیکن یہ گفتگو ہمارے لئے اجنبی نہیں ہے۔

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@Maihunbss_2d So relatable 😂

[Priyank Ahuja @ahuja_priyank]

🚨 BREAKING: I asked Claude to improve my LinkedIn profile.

It didn’t just improve it. It made it a recruiter magnet.

Here are the 7 exact prompts I used:

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@zedzactly maybe it wasn’t for nothing, you’re just not at the part where it makes sense yet

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

Iran got its demands met, Trump got a face saving exit from the deadline threat he thought would make the Iranian leadership bow down. And Pakistan got free praise tweets from both Iran and the US.

Everybody won...!

#PeaceNow

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@eemanrauf31 no this isn’t the first time pak is repaying principal to the uae, and it’s not true that only markups were paid. interest is paid regularly while principal is due at maturity but often rolled over which makes it seem like only interest is being paid

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@AlamSameera26 khair mubarik, btw what’s sheet khorma?

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

Watching Dhurandhar: The Revenge in a theater full of Indians as a Pakistani… safe to say I’m watching reactions more than the movie 😭 😂

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@areeshabaigg I’m in

[adnan | عدنان @adnan_96]

@hey_jinae Eidi please