#WATCH | Delhi: On the international cricket captains' letter to the Pakistan government regarding Imran Khan's health and well-being, former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev says, "...I like to support our friend whom we played with and admired for his cricketing skill. We don't know the law of the country; that's fine. But humanity and simply giving facilities to a prisoner, whoever it may be, and he was the former Prime Minister of the country and a top cricketer of the world, we want him to get the best treatment as we are asking for. We are not asking for anything else... When you request, you are not asking for a reply..."
Kapil Dev on why he has asked the Pakistan government to grant Imran Khan access to proper medical treatment on humanitarian grounds "I would like to support my friend, against whom we played and admired his cricketing skills. We don’t know the law of the country, that’s fine. But humanity and simple facilities should be given to a prisoner, whoever he may be. And he was a former prime minister of the country and a top cricketer of the world. We want that he should get the best treatment, that’s what we are asking for. We are not asking for anything else, we are not asking for any replies"
ہم اپنے اس دوست (عمران خان) کی مدد کرنا چاہتے ہیں جس کے ساتھ ہم نے کرکٹ کھیلی۔ ہمیں پاکستان کے قوانین کا علم نہیں، لیکن انسانیت کے ناطے کسی بھی قیدی کو بنیادی سہولیات ملنی چاہئیں۔ عمران خان پاکستان کے سابق وزیراعظم اور دنیا کے بہترین کرکٹرز میں سے ایک رہے ہیں، ہم صرف یہ چاہتے ہیں کہ انہیں بہترین علاج اور سہولیات فراہم کی جائیں۔ ہم اس سے زیادہ کچھ نہیں مانگ رہے، کپل دیو
اقوام متحدہ کے نیلسن منڈیلا رولز کے تحت مسلسل 15 دن سے زیادہ قیدِ تنہائی ممنوع ہے اور اسے تشدد کے مترادف قرار دیا جاتا ہے۔ عمران خان نے یہ سلوک 15 دن نہیں بلکہ تین سال تک برداشت کیا ہے۔ اب پاکستان کی سپریم کورٹ نے بھی مداخلت کی ہے اور جامع طبی علاج، ان کے ذاتی ڈاکٹر تک رسائی، خاندان سے باقاعدہ ملاقاتوں اور اپنے بیٹوں سے ہفتے میں دو بار فون پر بات کرنے کا حکم دیا ہے۔ اس کے باوجود ان احکامات کی خلاف ورزی کی جا رہی ہے۔یہ معاملہ اب محض پاکستان کا سیاسی معاملہ نہیں رہا۔ یہ انسانی حقوق کی ایک ہنگامی صورتِ حال ہے۔ جمائما گولڈ سمتھ کا ٹویٹ
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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.
BREAKING NEWS: 22 Former international cricket captains have once again written a letter to Pakistan PM over the treatment for Imran Khan. They first wrote a similar letter in February and this one comes after Pak allegedly didn’t completely comply with SC directions.
They have laid down 3 demands:
1. That the medical board directed by the Supreme Court — including Mr Khan's own doctors — be permitted to complete a full and independent assessment of his health, particularly the reported loss of vision in his right eye.
2. That the weekly family visits reinstated by the Court be honoured without interruption or administrative delay.
3. That whatever the outcome of that medical assessment, the treatment recommended by it be provided without delay.
Three Indians - Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar are among the 22 former captains.
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Twenty one former international captains from around the world have written another letter to Pakistan's prime minister Shehbaz Sharif
Full story: https://t.co/ZrDZ1lSV23
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I have asked the Punjab CM to ensure that every health facility in the country is made available for Nawaz Sharif to get the treatment of his choice. The federal govt will assist wherever required. I wish him good health.
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پی ٹی آئ کے قائد عمران خان کی الشفا ھسپتال منتقلی اور انکی
ھمشیرہ و ڈاکٹر کی ان سے ملاقات کا عدالتی فیصلہ خوش آئند ھے
اس فیصلے سے عدلیہ کا کھویا ھوا وقار بحال ھو گا ،
سچ یہ ھے کہ اس فیصلے سے میرے دل کا بوجھ کچھ کم ھوا ھے ۔۔ برسات کی حبس زدہ رُت میں یہ فیصلہ ٹھنڈی ھوا کا جھونکا ھے ۔۔
اس فیصلہ پر معزز جج صاحبان مبارکباد کے مستحق ھیں ، اگر اسمیں ریاستی منشا شامل ھے تو اسے بھی سراھا جانا چاھئیے ۔۔۔
سابق وزیر اعظم عمران خان کی صحت اور زندگی انتہائ اھم ھیں ، اسپر کوئ سمجھوتہ نہیں ھونا چاھئیے ، انکی جماعت اور اھل خانہ کو بھی اس حوالہ سے آئیندہ محتاط اور ذمہ دارانہ کردار ادا کرنا چاھئیے ۔۔ انکا ذمہ دارانہ رویہ اگلے راستے کھُلنے کی صورت متعین کرسکتا ھے ۔۔
ھم پہلے بھی ان صفحات پر عمران خان صاحب کے اھل ِ خانہ کی ملاقاتوں پر پابندی کے خاتمے اور انکی مرضی کے ڈاکٹرز تک انکی رسائ کے حق میں آواز بلند کرتے رھے ھیں
ھماری اطلاعات کے مطابق حکومت نے انکے علاج کیلئے ماھر ڈاکٹرز مامور کیے رکھے ھیں اور علاج معالجہ میں اپنے تئیں کوئ کمی نہیں کی لیکن جیلیں بھگتنے والے جانتے ھیں کہ کوئ بھی شخص اتنا طویل عرصہ قید تنہائ میں رکھا جائیگا تو اسکی صحت متاثر ھوۓ بغیر نہیں رہ سکتی
جیل اپنے قیدی کو کسی نہ کسی بیماری کا تحفہ ضرور دیتی ھے ، یہ آپ بیتی بھی اور جگ بیتی بھی ۔۔۔
اگر قیدی آپکا سیاسی مخالف ھو تو اسکی حفاظت اور حقوق کی ادائیگی اشد ضروری ھو جاتی ھے
بہتر ھوتا کہ حکومت یہ فیصلہ خود کرتی بہر حال دیر آید درست آید کے مصداق اب فریقین ذمہ داری کا مظاھرہ کریں اور عمران خان صاحب کیلئے آسانی کا معاملہ پیدا ھونے دیا جاۓ
ڈاکٹر یاسمین راشد ، اعجاز چوھدری ، عمر چیمہ ، میاں محمود الرشید سمیت PTI کے باقی اسیران بھی ایسی توجہ کے حقدار ھیں
اس موقع پر طعنہ زنی ، گالی گلوچ اور انکے دور ِ اقتدار کی سختیاں یاد کرنیکے یا دھرانے کی قطعاً کوئ ضرورت نہیں ھے !!!
سیاسی اختلافات اپنی جگہ، میں صدق دل سے نواز شریف کی صحتیابی کیلئے دعاگو ہوں۔ انہیں علاج معالجے کی بہترین ممکنہ سہولیات فراہم کرنے کیلئے میں تمام متعلقہ حکام کو ہدایات دے چکا ہوں۔