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.
محسن نقوی کی تقریر کا خلاصہ عمران خان نے زیادہ اچھے طریقے سے عوام کو تین سال پہلے سمجھا دیا تھا۔
"شہباز شریف صبح 7 بجے اٹھ جاتا ہے تو میرا مالی صبح 6 بجے ہی اٹھ جاتا ہے۔
اٹھو جب مرضی لیکن ڈالر کا ریٹ دیکھو ذرا، مہنگائی کے حالات دیکھو ذرا"
کوئی محب وطن پاکستانی تابش ہاشمی کی کشمیر کے حوالے سے کی گئی %100 درست گفتگو سے اختلاف نہیں کر سکتا۔ 👌
Every word seems to have come straight out of his heart !! 👍
شهادت رهبر عظیمالشأن ایران، اندوهی عمیق بر دل آحاد ملت ما، امت اسلامی و همه آزادگان جهان نشاند.
این عروج سرخ، نه پایان راه، بلکه آغاز فصلی نوین از همبستگی، استقامت و بالندگی ملتی است که همواره از دل سختترین آزمونها، متحدتر، استوارتر و امیدوارتر به سوی فردا گام برمیدارد.
@audaciousM__ I agree with first two sentences but the last sentence is worth less
No one can make imran Khan irrelevant
He has made his way to be written in the history and he will always remain hero in history till the end of Pakistan
But these govt servents will get retired someday
@netanyahu May you die soon and Muslims around the world will celebrate your death
Iran will become nuculat power with the will of Allah and the world will see
You are international criminal
When Israel a terriorist state can have nucular bomb why don't Iran have it