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.
It has now been around 1,100 days since my father, Imran Khan, was imprisoned, and my brother and I haven’t heard his voice since March. For months, we’ve been denied contact with him. We remain in the dark about his access to healthcare as his eyesight continues to deteriorate. He urgently needs medical attention, and with no family or legal access, we don’t even get any second hand information or reassurance.
I’ve found myself especially missing him recently. I want to speak to him about mundane things like my cricket, books I’ve been reading and what new movies are good. I understand the people of Pakistan want their chosen leader free, but I miss my father more than ever.
But this is not just about a father. It is about Pakistan, and its future. A rigged, authoritarian regime continues to crush political opposition, undermine democratic institutions, and deny millions of Pakistanis their right to freely choose their leaders, whilst terrorising those who speak their beliefs.
I once again plea to the international community to not look away. Silence in the face of injustice only enables it.
🚨 DG ISPR Babar Iftikhar once dismissed Imran Khan’s Cypher as “just a piece of paper” and called the entire narrative a lie & conspiracy.
Today, @DropSiteNews has released the original classified Cypher documents — proving it was real all along.
The worst regime change operation in Pakistan’s history was carried out on the basis of this very Cipher.
History will remember who lied
عمران خان کو آنکھ کی بیماری سے منسلک ممکنہ دیگر صحت کے مسائل کا جامع اور مربوط علاج کی ضرورت ہے۔ یہ علاج صرف شفا انٹرنیشنل ہسپتال اسلام آباد جیسے ٹرشیری ہسپتال میں ممکن ہے۔
ڈاکٹر یوسف
امریکہ ایران میں Regime change بھول جائے، کیونکہ ایران کی عوام موجودہ ایران کی گورنمنٹ کے ساتھ کھڑی ہے
شدید جنگی حالات میں یہ تہران میں یہ ہزاروں افراد گورنمنٹ سے اظہار یکجہتی کیلئے نکلے ہیں
I don’t have words to condemn the brutal repression of peaceful protests held across the country for condemning the unlawful US and Israeli aggression against Iran which resulted in the martyrdom of Ayatollah Khamenei, who was not just Iran’s Supreme Leader but also the leader of Shias across the world including Pakistan.
In Karachi, 18 people were martyred and more than 40 injured. In Islamabad, four people lost their lives and dozens were injured. In Skardu and Gilgit, six people were martyred in each city, with dozens more injured. In Lahore, dozens were also injured during the crackdown.
The firing by personnel of the United States Marine Corps on unarmed demonstrators at Karachi Consulate is condemnable in the strongest terms.
Similary local police and law enforcement agencies in Islamabad, Gilgit and Skardu resorted to firing on innocent protesters.
Live ammunition against civilians cannot be justified under any doctrine of security. Diplomatic premises may be protected, but protection does not mean disproportionate force. If restraint fails at such a sensitive moment, consequences are predictable.
This is not how a state manages dissent. When grief cuts across sectarian lines and Shia and Sunni citizens stand together in mourning, the answer cannot be bullets you unless the perpetrator of this brutality is working for the servants of Zionists.
The right to peaceful protest is a fundamental right. Responding with excessive force reflects failure of restraint and disregard for human life. I demand an immediate and transparent inquiry into these incidents. Those responsible for ordering and carrying out the use of lethal force must be held accountable.
The government must remember that brutality cannot silence public grief, it rather deepens pain and division.
حیدر کے بیٹے ہمیشہ میدان میں ہی شہید ہوتے ہیں
پھر چاہیے وہ 6 ماہ کے ہوں یا 86 سال کے
کروڑوں ایک طرف ہوتے ہیں وہ تن تنہا ایک طرف
سر دے دیتے ہیں مگر بیت نہیں کرتے
لبیک یا حسین
پاکستان کے اندر مظاہرین ریڈ زون میں داخل ہو چکے ہیں یہی وقت ہے اسم خنزیر اور ڈیڑھ فٹیے کو سولی کے پھٹے پہ لٹکایا جائے جنہوں نے نہ صرف اس ملک کو بلکہ پورے عالم اسلام کو اگ میں جھونکا
Who has martyred 8 innocent civilians outside the US Consulate? Answers required. Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto, Murad Ali Shah CM Sind, Shahbaz Sharif, Sind Police all have blood on their hands. Goli kis nai aur kis ke hukam pe chalai? @PTIofficial