A university incident has sparked outrage after a military officer allegedly assaulted a student with a stick and then allegedly opened fire to intimidate him.
But this time, the students didn’t stay silent — and the officer reportedly faced resistance from them.
Uniform or no uniform, accountability cannot be optional.
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.
حکومت پاکستان پر ڈر کا یہ عالم تھا کہ کچھ گھنٹوں کے لیے سپریم کورٹ کا ارڈر مان کر خان صاحب کو ہسپتال بھیج دیا لیکن ساتھ ہی واپس جیل منتقل کیا جب عوام نے روڈوں پر پھول اور پتیاں بچھائیں۔ یہ ڈر ضروری تھا.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan orders the government to shift former Prime Minister Imran Khan to a hospital from jail for medical treatment https://t.co/tOxNwZcP9q
The Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered that former Prime Minister Imran Khan be moved to hospital from jail, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said, meeting a longstanding demand of his party and family, who have been raising concerns about his health https://t.co/QZbv0ac6zY
آزادی ہوتی کیا ہے؟
یہ ویڈیو دیکھیں کہ کیسے عمران خان نے سمجھایا تھاـ
اب یہ شعر پڑھیں اور بتائیں کہ کیا آپ اس سے متفق ہیں؟
ابھی تک پاؤں سے چمٹی ہیں زنجیریں غلامی کی
دن آ جاتا ہے آزادی کا، آزادی نہیں آتی !
#جناح_کا_جانشین_عمران_خان
عمران خان کو ناجائز حکومت اور عاصم منیر نے جب اغوا کیا تو عمران خان صحت مند اور توانا تھے۔
جنہوں نے عمران خان کو ناحق قید کیا، ان پر ظلم ڈھائے، ان کی صحت و زندگی سے کھیلا، قوم ان سے ہر پل، ہر لمحے اور ہر ظلم کا حساب لے گی۔
عمران خان سے ان کی فیملی، ذاتی ڈاکٹرز، وکلاء اور پارٹی عہدیداروں سے ملاقات نہ کروا کر غیر قانونی، غیر آئینی اور غیر انسانی رویہ برتنے والوں کو کسی صورت معاف نہیں کیا جا سکتا۔
#ناحق_قید_کے_3سال
#KhanIllegallyJailed3Years
#WorldwideProtestsForImranKhan