Kafil Aslam

I like those who are true in their words.

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

With my love ❤️🤪. #PakArmy_OurPride #Shahzada @peaceforchange

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

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[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

Twenty one former international captains from around the world have written another letter to Pakistan's prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, renewing their appeal for the medical treatment of former captain Imran Khan following recent developments that they say fall short of a Supreme Court directive https://t.co/NrehVY71ZC

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Cricket legends urge Pakistan to provide 'proper medical care' for Imran Khan

https://t.co/MFWnmxNmHl

[Aleema khan @ikhan_17]

🚨ڈاکٹریاسمین راشد کیساتھ جیل میں بدترین غیرانسانی سلوک کیا جارہا ہے انکے قید خانے کی بجلی بند کردی جاتی ہے انکی حالت اچھی نہیں کینسر کی مریضہ ہیں میڈیکل رپورٹس اچھی نہیں ہیں-

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Ex-cricket captains urge 'proper medical care' for Imran Khan https://t.co/dNMvqRB1bY

[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.

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@MehwishQamas Wesy video main us ny asa kuch nai kaha

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Iran's strike on Qatar gas facility will take up to 5 years of repairs and cut production by 17%

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@MiftahIsmail Miftah sb app late hain

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

Wah

[Bloomberg @business]

A tanker laden with crude oil appears to have cleared the Strait of Hormuz and is now sailing to Pakistan https://t.co/SgoQ4b8jRW

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@EmmanuelMacron Agon ony ki kiya o v ds

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Five US refueling planes struck and damaged at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia, according to WSJ report.

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@khalidmabbasi @mkw72 App b dandian wad rahy wo b to btaain

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@khalidmabbasi @digitalchirrya Agar jhoot howa to?

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: As many as 150 US troops injured in Iran war so far, according to Reuters report.

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@CMShehbaz @rahimhayat Good tweet. American chupy

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@spectatorindex Koi nai as biyaaan to baaad Crude oil fair wad jana

[The Pakistan Index @thepakindex]

JUST IN: A shipment of 733,000 barrels of Russian crude oil is set to arrive in Pakistan soon, Sputnik

[Kafil Aslam @kafilaslam]

@spectatorindex @JanethMalik2 Sehri time sehri ty aftari time aftari.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Over $800 billion in value wiped from US share market today.

[CNN @CNN]

CNN's Frederik Pleitgen encounters more checkpoints than usual and armed personnel on the road to Iran's capital, but sees no signs of panic.

Shops are open and stocked, and gas appears readily available with no long lines.

CNN is operating in Iran only with government permission.

Follow live updates: https://t.co/mgwMZF8h72