Pakistan were mired in huge controversy off the field yesterday. And today they are staring humiliation on the field at Lord’s today. Pakistan all out for 110 after bowling England out for 290. Do you think yesterday’s Imran Khan vs Pakistan vs Imran Khan’s Sons vs Sky Sports vs PCB vs Atherton has a role to play in demoralising Pak team?
#PakvaEng
Imran Khan’s sons, @Kasim_Khan_1999 and Sulaiman, said in their interview with @Athersmike on @SkySportsNews that they have not spoken to their father since March.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan ordered the regime last week to allow Imran Khan to speak with his sons by phone twice a week. This directive followed multiple other court orders that the regime continues to flout with impunity.
#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
Full interview of Imran Khan’s sons @Kasim_Khan_1999 and #SulaimanKhan with Former England Captain Michael Atherton. They shared latest health updates on Imran Khan and raised urgency on required medical treatment.
#StopRiskingImranKhansLife
Pat Cummins has thrown his weight behind the ongoing campaign by former international captains seeking medical care for former Pakistan prime minister and captain Imran Khan
Read more: https://t.co/GImzOT5ZhR
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.
کیا آپ جانتے ہیں، گزشتہ روز (جمعرات) عمران خان سے ملاقات کا دن تھا
لیکن Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf یا کسی بھی آفیشل پلٹ فارم پر عمران خان سے ملاقات کرنے والوں کی کوئی بھی لسٹ جاری نہیں کی گئی نہ ہی عمران خان سے ملاقات کے متعلق کوئی پوسٹ لگائی گئی
آہستہ آہستہ عمران خان کو لوگوں کے ذہن سے نکال دیا جائے، کل ملاقات کے متعلق کوئی بھی بات نہ ہونا اِس چیز کی نشانی ہے کہ عمران خان سے ملاقات نہ کروانے کے غیر قانونی اور غیر انسانی عمل کو "نارملائز" کردیا گیا ہے