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.
Today marks 3 years since Imran Khan was unjustly incarcerated.
He is still being denied basic human rights and remains in solitary confinement.
His abominable treatment is an affront to democracy. I will continue to demand the release of all political prisoners, everywhere.
وزیر داخلہ فوج کا ، وزیر خزانہ فوج کا ، افغان و کشمیر پالیسی فوج کے ہاتھ میں ، سرمایہ کاری کا ادارہ فوج نے بنایا ، ضلعی افسران کو فوج کے سیکٹر کمانڈرز کنٹرول کرتے ہیں ، الیکشن فوج نے چھینا آئینی ترامیم فوج نے کیں۔ آج ناکامیوں کا اعتراف بھی فوج کا ہے۔
عر�� کیا تھا یہ جیت نہیں سکتے ہم ہار نہیں سکتے۔
کشمیر میں ہونے والی قتل و غارت پر چپ رہنا پاکستان سے دشمنی کے مترادف ہے۔ پی ٹی آئی لیڈرشپ کو 5 اگست کا انتظار کئیے بغیر فوری پر امن احتجاج کی کال دینی چاہیئے۔
آج کشمیری بھائیوں کے زخموں پر مرحم رکھنے کا وقت ہے۔ اگر دیر کردی تو وہ منہ موڑ لیں گے۔ عمل کرنے کا یہی وقت ہے۔ مزید دیر کی گنجائش نہیں۔
جرنیلوں کو خوش کرنے کے چکر میں ملک کو مزید نقصان نہیں پہنچایا جا سکتا۔
پی ٹی آئی فوری طور پر پر امن احتجاج کی کال دے۔ عوام نکلے یا نہ نکلے یہ عوام کی مرضی۔ آپ اپنا فرض پورا کریں۔
عمران خان جیل سے باہر ہوتے تو ہرگز اس وقت تک چپ نہ رہتے۔
اگر آج پاکستانی عوام حقوق کے لیئے کھڑی نہ ہوئی تو پھر بہت دیر ہو جائے گی۔
Disgusting behaviour by the Argentinians at the end, especially Paredes.
Just a bunch of nasty violent thugs, and a disgrace to football. Never been so happy to see a team lose.
Immigration is not the reason that you can’t get a hospital appointment, it’s the reason you can get one.
Please retweet for all the people who can’t seem to grasp that.
فی دوکاندار نے 60000 روپے دیے ہیں اپنی جیب سے لوگوں نے بنایا ہے کیونکہ ادھر میری بھی شاپ ہے مینے بھی 60000 روپے دیے ہیں جو نہی دیتا تھا دوکان سیل کر دیتی تھی انتظامیہ اور پبلکسٹی مریم نواز اپنی کر رہی
Sıcakların yükseldiği şu günlerde… Kargo teslim eden bir kargocunun bahçeyi sulayan fıskiyeyi baktığını zil kamerasından gören ev sahibi, “Serinlemek için kesinlikle ona doğru koşmalısın” dedi ve yürekleri ısıtan olay yaşandı 😇♥️
🇵🇰🇺🇸 The cable that toppled a government is finally public.
On March 7, 2022, Pakistan's ambassador in Washington sat down with U.S. assistant secretary of state Donald Lu. The message was short and clear, remove Imran Khan through a no-confidence vote and Washington will look the other way. "All will be forgiven," the ambassador later recalled. Thirty three days later, Khan was gone.
But this didn't start with that meeting. In June 2021, CIA Director William Burns personally flew to Islamabad to meet Khan. Waited a full day. Khan never showed. Said he'd only speak to his counterpart, meaning Biden, who had been dodging Khan's calls since day one. Burns left with nothing. Weeks later Khan went on record with Axios and just said it out loud, "Absolutely not. There is no way we are going to allow any bases, any sort of action from Pakistani territory into Afghanistan." No diplomatic cushioning, no ambiguity.
Washington had its answer. Pakistan's military had seen enough of their own prime minister.
In July 2021, behind Khan's back, the military quietly put a former CIA Islamabad station chief on retainer as a lobbyist in Washington. The generals were already cutting their own deal.
Then came the moment that sealed it. On February 24, 2022, the exact day Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, Khan was in Moscow shaking hands with Putin on a long scheduled visit. Biden's national security advisor Sullivan had personally called Islamabad days before urging them to cancel. Khan didn't budge. Pakistan then abstained on the UN vote condemning the invasion. Washington was done.
Weeks later came the Lu meeting. The cable. And then Khan was out.
What followed was a gut punch. Artillery shells started flowing to Ukraine secretly through U.S. defense contractors. American support for Pakistan's IMF lifeline was explicitly tied to keeping that weapons pipeline running. Pakistan got its $3 billion bailout in July 2023. In February 2024 the military brazenly rigged the elections and the U.S. and EU sat on their hands and said nothing.
And Khan? Buried under a never ending conveyor belt of charges, corruption, contempt, national security, one case collapsing only for another to appear. He has been behind bars for nearly 3 years now. His wife still in prison. His party outlawed, stripped of its electoral symbol, barred from even fielding candidates under its own name.
The cypher was always real. They called it fake, jailed the man who leaked it, and hoped everyone would move on. They didn't.
Source: Drop Site News
@8eenpoint5 Listen, once a celebrity is in public, expect that people /media will record you. If he has a problem with the media recording his daughter from behind, he should ask his daughter not to show her naked back.
@MianAliAshfaq What fair point? Embassies use their manpower and resources to evaluate visa applications, which don't come free. Common sense is not very common
دانستہ غفلت اور سراسر غیر انسانی سلوک کے باعث عمران خان کی بینائی کو سنگین خطرات لاحق ہیں۔
ہنگامی مطالبات: شفاء انٹرنیشنل ہسپتال میں فوری منتقلی، ذاتی معالجین اور اہل خانہ تک رسائی، اور علاج بابت رازداری کا خاتمہ کیا جائے۔
#SaveImranKhansEyesight