آخر کا جاوید میانداد صاحب نے غیرت ہمت اور انسانیت دکھائی۔ پاکستانی دوسرے کرکٹرز کو بھی خاموش نہیں رہنا چاہیئے۔ عمران خان کو زیادہ فرق نہیں پڑے گا۔ آپ خود کو ایکسپوز کر رہے ہیں۔ وہ بھی پوری دنیا کے سامنے۔
One World Cup. Two universities. Three cancer hospitals. Thirty years of political struggle and family sacrifice. Four bullets. Three years in jail. No crime. Still standing. One man. One eye. One mission. Zero surrender.
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, what a man. No one can be like you. ❤️
I’m just so impressed by the bravery of these boys. They take after their father @ImranKhanPTI and though he has been locked away in inhumane, life threatening isolation and will not have seen their many interventions, I know he would be so proud to see them fighting for justice
“This is a humanitarian appeal… increasing concerns about health and well being of Imran Khan… one of the greatest players… increasing sense of urgency around his health…”
- Former England Cricket Captain @Athersmike, speaking at Lord’s Cricket Ground, raises concern for arbitrarily detained former PM and former Pakistan Cricket Captain Imran Khan.
#StopRiskingImranKhansLife
#FreeImranKhan
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
🇵🇰 Former PM Imran Khan’s sons say they’re genuinely scared they could lose their father in prison.
Kasim and Sulaiman spoke to Sky Sports at Lord’s, with their father’s portrait hanging right behind them. They haven’t seen him since 2022 and haven’t even spoken to him since March.
And what they’re describing is brutal.
They say he now spends more than 23 hours a day alone in a small cell, has lost 80% of the vision in one eye and is struggling with his health.
Kasim: “They are just blatantly trying to kill him in there.”
Even after the Supreme Court ordered him moved to a private hospital, his sons say he was taken to a government facility for a few hours and then sent straight back to jail.
The government of course denies mistreating him and says he has food, books, TV and space to exercise.
And here’s where it gets even more frustrating. After his sons spoke about all of this, the Pakistan Cricket Board complained to Sky over the interview.
Forget the politics for a second. These are two sons who just want to see their dad, talk to him and know if he’s okay.
Source: The Telegraph / Writer: Daniyal
آپ سمجھ ہی نہیں رہی ہیں! ایمان اور ہادی کو چائیے تھا کہ کوئی چھوٹا جرم کرتے! کسی پولیس والے کو مار دیتے، ایسی چیزیں تو پاکستانی اشرافیہ کرتی ہی رہتی ہے! مگر انھوں نے تو حد ہی کر دی! ہماری عظیم اور عقلمند ترین فوج کے خلاف ٹویٹ کر دیا - اتنے بڑے جرم کی معافی بھلا کیسے ہو سکتی ہے!
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Twenty-two international cricketers, including 21 ex-captains, have written a letter to Prime Minister @CMShehbaz, making an appeal for ex-Pakistani premier @ImranKhanPTI’s medical treatment in line with recent #SupremeCourt directives. https://t.co/JNNIPfDCMu
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.
What is happening to @imrankhanPTI is an abuse on every conceivable level.
Passively monitoring the situation is plainly not enough. It is time for active diplomacy.
-An urgent letter to Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband
No! Congressman, It was a sick Joke! Generals used “Supreme Court” like a condom to fool the world. Instead of admitting him in Shiffa International Hospital (as ordered by court) they took him to a Govt controlled hospital, declared him fit and put him back in his prison cell @RepHuizenga
الحمد للہ 🙏 !
آپ سب کی کوششوں سے آج عمران خان صاحب کا چیک اپ اور علاج ان کی فیملی اور ذاتی ڈاکٹرز کی موجودگی میں الشفأ ہسپتال میں ہونے جا رہا ہے-
پاکستانیو۔۔ ابھی ہم نے مزید محنت کرنی ہے۔ آرام کا وقت نہیں ہے۔ یہ آپ کی کامیابی کا پہلا قدم ہے۔ آگے کا مرحلہ سخت ضرور ہے لیکن ناممکن نہیں۔ ہم نے عمران خان، بشرٰی بی بی ، تمام لیڈران اور تمام ورکرز کو انصاف دلانا ہے اور ناحق قید سے آزاد کروانا ہے- بس آپ نے گھبرانا نہیں اور اپنے اللّٰہ پر ایمان کامل رکھنا ہے۔ انشاء اللّٰہ فتح حق اور سچ کی ہوگی۔