Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves
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.
فروری ۲۰۲۶ سے ہمیں خان صاحب کے علاج کے حوالے سے ایسی ہی صورتحال اور عاصم منیر کے ناجائز تسلط کے ماتحت حکومتی اہلکاروں کی جانب سے ایسے ہی دھوکے کا سامنا ہے۔ کبھی الزام سوشل میڈیا پر دھر دیاجاتا ہے تو کبھی خاندان پر۔ اس مرتبہ جس ڈھٹائ سے سپریم کورٹ کی واضح ہدایات کو روندا گیا ہے بہت واضح ہے کہ بین الاقوامی اسٹیبلشمنٹ (کہ جن کو عمران خان نہ کل منظور تھا نہ آج ان کے پلانز میں فٹ بیٹھتا ہے) کے آلہ کار عاصم منیر اور حواریوں کے عزائم صرف عمران خان پر دباؤ ڈال کر اپنی انا کی تسکین اور اپنے ناجائز تسلط کی طوالت کے نہیں بلکہ ان کو خدانخواستہ راستے سے ہٹانے کے ہیں۔
عرصہ سے خان صاحب کی اپنی ہدایات ہیں، جو بارہا دہرائی جاچکی ہیں کہ اراکین اور پارٹی قیادت کی جانب سے سپریم کورٹ کے باہر دھرنا دیا جائے تب تک جب تک ان کے کیسز کی سنوائی نہیں ہوجاتی اور انہیں ان کے معالجین تک رسائ اور علاج کی مناسب سہولیات نہیں مہیا کی جاتیں۔ ہمیں فوری طور پر سپریم کورٹ کے باہر دھرنا دے کر اس بات پر زور دینا چاہئے کہ کورٹ اپنے احکامات منوائے اور ساتھ ساتھ فارم ۴۷ کی اس ناجائز حکومت کے خلاف توہین عدالت کی کاروائ عمل میں لائی جائے۔
عسکری ترامیم کے زریعے عدلیہ کا چہرہ مسخ اور آئین پامال کر دیا گیا لیکن اس کے باجود ہم خان صاحب کے حکم پر انہی عدالتوں سے انصاف مانگ رہے ہیں پھر بھی اگر اتنا عرصہ گزرنے کے بعد کیسسز کی سنوائی تک نہ ہوسکی اور اب باوجودعدالتی آرڈر کے علاج جیسی بنیادی سہولت بھی نہیں دی جاسکتی اور عدالت اس معاملے میں مکمل طور پر اپنی بے بسی ظاہر کرتی ہے تو یہ آخری نقاب بھی اٹھ جائے تاکہ پھر فیصلےعوامی عدالت میں ہوں اور انہی سڑکوں پر ہوں۔
🚨Imran Khan’s possible return is sending shockwaves through Pakistan’s political landscape!
From Adiala Jail to Shifa Hospital… and whispers of something bigger? PTI signals, establishment tensions, and a nation holding its breath.
One move could rewrite the game. Power dynamics shifting. Alliances trembling.
Is the storm finally coming?
#ImranKhan #PakistanPolitics #GameChanger #PTI
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is expected to be shifted from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad under a Supreme Court order for medical examination and treatment.
As anticipation grows over his transfer, supporters have been seen scattering flower petals along roads outside the hospital, welcoming the possibility of Khan arriving there.
The Supreme Court had ordered the transfer within 48 hours, while the government has challenged the portion of the order requiring treatment at a private hospital.
پوری امت کل حشر میں کٹہرے میں ہوگی اور خصوصا وہ جو ایٹمی طاقت ہونے پر اتراتے ہیں ۔ غزہ کے مظلوموں پر صرف عربوں کو طعنے نہ دیں ، ہر کوئی اس خاموشی میں برابر کا شریک ہے