It has now been around 1,100 days since my father, Imran Khan, was imprisoned, and my brother and I haven’t heard his voice since March. For months, we’ve been denied contact with him. We remain in the dark about his access to healthcare as his eyesight continues to deteriorate. He urgently needs medical attention, and with no family or legal access, we don’t even get any second hand information or reassurance.
I’ve found myself especially missing him recently. I want to speak to him about mundane things like my cricket, books I’ve been reading and what new movies are good. I understand the people of Pakistan want their chosen leader free, but I miss my father more than ever.
But this is not just about a father. It is about Pakistan, and its future. A rigged, authoritarian regime continues to crush political opposition, undermine democratic institutions, and deny millions of Pakistanis their right to freely choose their leaders, whilst terrorising those who speak their beliefs.
I once again plea to the international community to not look away. Silence in the face of injustice only enables it.
@farooq_pm آگیا تو جوان ہو کہ ،
اتنے کشمیروں کو شہید کروا کے اب کرسی کے لیئے تمہاری غیرت جاگ گئی ،
بھائی وہ بیرسٹر کم ازکم پڑھا لکھا ہے اور نوجوان بھی ہے ، اب برداشت کر
إِنَّا لِلّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
پاکستان تحریک انصاف کے اولین ساتھیوں میں سے ایک چاچا شاہ عالم اپنے خالق حقیقی سے جا ملے۔
چاچا شاہ عالم نے عمران خان کے ساتھ اُس وقت کھڑے ہونے کا فیصلہ کیا جب راستہ کانٹوں سے بھرا ہوا تھا اور منزل کا کوئی یقین نہ تھا۔ نہ کوئی مفاد، نہ کوئی دنیاوی لالچ، صرف ایک خواب، ایک نظریہ اور اُس نظریے کے قائد کے ساتھ غیر متزلزل وفاداری۔
چاچا شاہ عالم کو ۹ مئی کے مقدمات میں نامزد کر کے ایک سال تک سرگودھا جیل کی سلاخوں کے پیچھے قید رکھا گیا۔ انہوں نے کبھی وکلاء سے اپنے کیس کے بارے میں کچھ نہ پوچھا، بس ایک ہی سوال ہوتا تھا: «خان صاحب خیریت سے ہیں؟»
چاچا شاہ عالم اُن خوش نصیبوں میں سے تھے جن کے لیے خود چیئرمین عمران خان نے جیل سے حکم دیا: «شاہ عالم کو جیل سے جلدی نکالو»۔
قوم ایسے ہیروز کی قربانیوں کو ہمیشہ یاد رکھے گی۔
برطانوی پارلیمنٹ میں ممبران اب باقاعدہ طور پر حکومتی وزیروں سے سوال کر رہے ہیں کہ عمران خان کی قید تنہائی اور انکے ساتھ کیے جانے والے غیر انسانی سلوک پر برطانیہ کیوں چپ ہے؟
پاکستان کی ایماء پر میں اعظم سواتی کی گھر کی دہلیز تک محدود، مکمل طور پر غیر عوامی اور تہجد گزار محترمہ اہلیہ سے معافی مانگنا چاہتا ہوں کہ انہیں اس کرب، اذیت اور توہین و ذلت کے ناروا احساس کا بوجھ اٹھانا پڑا۔
India 3 - Pakistan 0
World 21 - Pakistan 0
The 21 ex-captains demands a full health check by a board with Khan's doctors, uninterrupted weekly family visits, and prompt treatment
A personal plea to @elonmusk
My two sons have not been allowed to see or speak to their father Imran Khan who has been held unlawfully (acc to the UN) for 22 months of solitary confinement.
X is the only place left where we can still tell the world he is a political prisoner without basic human rights.
Yet every time I post about him, the reach inside Pakistan (and often globally) is throttled to almost zero.
You promised free speech, not “speech but no one hears it”.
Please fix the visibility filtering on my account so we can get the message out! @MarioNawfal
عمران خان دنیا کے عظیم کرکٹر اور سابق وزیراعظم ہیں، مانتے ہیں ہمیں قانون کا علم نہیں، صرف انسانیت کی خاطر قیدی کی بنیادی سہولیات اور علاج کا مطالبہ کر رہے ہیں، اس کے علاوہ ہم کچھ اور نہیں مانگ رہے۔ کپل دیو
The treatment of Imran Khan at the hands of the Pakistani government is an international outrage.
Today Peers across the House urged the UK Foreign minister to step up
@ImranKhanPTI
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.
@SabirMehmood26 نواز شریف اتنا میں پانی اور جگرا ہی نہیں ہے ،وہ دلا خود فارم 47 پر آیا ہے ،محترمہ یاسمیں راشد نے اس دلے کو ہرا دیا ہوا تھا ، وہ اب کیا ہی ٹمپریچر بڑھائے گا ؟