Iqbal Muhammad Khan

International Consultant - ADB (Asian Development Bank)

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

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.

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@KeepsamM Why does X let these morons to post like this?

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@araghchi Long live Iran and Pakistan ❤️❤️❤️

[Mufti Fazal Hamdard @muftihamdard]

اپنی آنکھوں پر یقین کیجیے فرقہ پرست مولوی کی باتوں پر نہیں ۔
ایران میں صرف ایک علاقے میں 1700 اہل السنت مسجدیں اور مدارس ہیں ، ایران میں سنی جامعہ کا وزٹ جس میں خلفاء اور صحابہ کرام کے نام دروازے پر لکھے ہیں !

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@ImranRiazKhan 2

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@araghchi Love you brother from the depth of heart. Long live Iran. Long live Pakistan

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

ان بابرکت، الٰہی اور روحانی دنوں اور گھڑیوں میں،
میں حکومت اور عوامِ پاکستان کا تہہِ دل سے شکریہ ادا کرتا ہوں کہ انہوں نے امریکہ اور صہیونی رجیم کی جارحیت کے مقابلے میں عوام اور حکومتِ اسلامی جمہوریہ ایران کے ساتھ اپنی یکجہتی اور حمایت کا بھرپور اظہار کیا۔

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@RmSalih @TurgayEvren1 This is absolutely disgusting and rubbish. Why the hell mentioned 150 million Shias???

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@zeshmohmand Yes

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@Ayazsualeh2 @ARYSabirShakir Why the hell morons like this post writer are allowed to use x platform

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@thiszahra My goodness, there are no shortages of Morons. What is the purpose of this sort of stupid tweet

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@BalochNadir5 Such an irrelevant and stupid question

[Queen Isabell @Queen_1o1]

اسرائیلی اور امریکن میڈیا اس وڈیو کو فیس بک انسٹاگرام اور ٹوئیٹر X سے ڈیلیٹ کرنے پر لگا ہوا ہے اس خاتون نے اپنی تقریر میں اسرائیل اور امریکی گورنمنٹ کی ساری اصلیت کھول کے رکھ دی ہے۔

اس وڈیو کو جتنا ذیادہ شیئر کریں اتنا ہی ان ظالموں کا چہرہ بے نقاب ہوگا۔

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@HamidMirPAK
Dear Hamid can you verify this
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[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

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[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

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[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@CengizCoskuun 100%

[Iqbal Muhammad Khan @imkhan2017]

@Alpakanya India is self-sufficient in clown making like this moron. The mental hospital business in India must be booming after this gross humiliation 🤣🤣🤣