Hamid

[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.

[Hamid @haamid987]

@kashif_feroze ملا کی نظر نورِ فراست سے ہے خالی
بے سوز ہے میخانۂ صوفی کی مَے ناب
بس اتنا ہی کہنا ہے بزبان علامہ محمد اقبال رحمۃ اللہ

[CNN International @cnni]

The sons of the imprisoned former leader of Pakistan Imran Khan told CNN they fear for their father's health, claiming authorities in the South Asian country are preventing them from seeing him.

Pakistan's government said it "categorically rejects" the claim that Khan has faced a communication blackout or been denied access to his family, lawyers and doctors. Read more: https://t.co/FZSRdjTfaC

[Hamid @haamid987]

@Umar_AliX @ByDuffers دو کمانڈو کا ٹرینڈ تھا
پتہ نہیں کہاں سے آپ نے غلط معلومات لیں

[Hamid @haamid987]

@tajkhalidpk @Umar_AliX اس روپے کی بتی بناو اور اپنے اور اپنے اگلے پچھلوں میں تن دو
مادر زادو ملک کا کیا حال کر لیا ابھی تک خان کے ل سے لٹکے ہوے ہو

[Hamid @haamid987]

@insaff2006 یہ پچھلے سال ہی ویڈیو ہے جس میں ہمارے دوست عثمان کاشر اس دو نمبر ایس پی ریاض مغل کو انسانیت سکھا رہا ہے جس نے کل پریس کانفرنس کر کہ یہ دعوی کیا ہیکہ عوامی ایکشن کمیٹی کو بھارت کی سپورٹ اور مدد حاصل ہے
یہ نوکری بچانے کے لیے کسی بھی حد تک گر سکتے ہیں

[Hamid @haamid987]

@TurkiyeUrdu_ وہ اتنے عظیم ہیں کہ پاکستان پہ آنچ آنے ہی نہیں دی
بلکہ خود ہی آگ لگا دی ہے بلوچستان سے کشمیر تک
آنچ کی ضرورت ہی نہیں رہی

[Hamid @haamid987]

@SHABAZGIL @imbehroz ڈاکٹر صاحب پی ٹی آئ آزاد کشمیر کی لیڈر شپ بہت ہی کمزور ہے
یہ بزدار پلس ہے ان سے کسی قسم کی امید رکھنا فضول ہے

[Hamid @haamid987]

@indyurdu Al baq mi
ڈاکٹر ال بق می
کم از کم اردو کا مذاق مت آڑاو
نام انڈپنڈنٹ اردو اور بول کیا رہی ہے

[PTI @PTIofficial]

Stop Killing Pakistanis!

#AsimLaw

[Hamid @haamid987]

@SdqJaan انڈیا کی فوج اور پیرا ملٹری اتنی بیغیرت نہیں کہ اپنے ہی لوگوں کو سیدھی گولیاں مارے یہ فرق ہے پاکستان میں بھی یوتھ نکلی تھی جنہیں لگتا تھا کہ فوجی اپنے لوگوں پہ گولیاں نہیں چلاتے
کشمیر میں بھی لوگ نکلے انہوں نے لاشیں بچھا دیں
اصل بات لکھا کریں جان صاحب

[Hamid @haamid987]

@SabeeKazmi786 کاظمی صاحب شہداء کی تعداد 44 سے تجاوز کر چکی ہے
اور بیشمار ابھی لاپتہ ہیں

[Hamid @haamid987]

@BlueMist911 آدھا پاکستان جرنیولوں نے تباہ کیا ہوا ہے انہیں انڈیا کی فکر لگی ہوی ہے

[Hamid @haamid987]

@MrsbeastD @yeshieewon Waiting for my turn

[Hamid @haamid987]

@MrsbeastD 5u2KWBMkQfecCVrzasCriyawvbkZvLuRoF1DLr1FLbFE

[Hamid @haamid987]

@MrsbeastD 5u2KWBMkQfecCVrzasCriyawvbkZvLuRoF1DLr1FLbFE

[Hamid @haamid987]

@MuftiMufta تھوڑا تحقیق کا تکلف کرتے تو پتہ چلتا کہ دو تین مختلف واقعات کو جوڑ کہ ایک قصہ گھڑا گیا جسے چسکے لینے کے لیے بتایا جاتا ہے

[Hamid @haamid987]

@TruePatriot7868 There are no if and buts india has already done what he wants
Yahan bakwas khatam ni hoti

[Hamid @haamid987]

@TurgayEvren1 🙌

[Hamid @haamid987]

@ShubhamS_35 Its famous in KPK and Afghanistan not a Kashmiri delicacy