Faisal Ali

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[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.

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@aynaa_s Oh okay

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@aynaa_s Okay will check it out

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@AnSaRi_Bacha786 @Badass1ZQ1 کیا یہ اے آئی ہے یا واقعی کر لیتا ہے؟

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@Badass1ZQ1 پاکستانی کلچر میں شوہر بچوں کی دیکھ بھال کہاں کرتے ہیں؟ کیا آپ اس سے متفق ہیں

[Sanaullah Khan @Sanaullahpaktv]

My Brother is kidnapped from Lahore

@OfficialDPRPP @MaryamNSharif need your attention into the matter please.

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@ImranRiazKhan 1

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@ImranRiazKhan Imran khan 1

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@Saqibca @jamilmusman_ Australia may Pakistan say zayda garmi parti ha they use to it anyway Pakistan players ko masla hoga

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@Labeed_Siddiqui Yeah same time nai hota match dekhnay ka Wese b without crowd tv per b dekna ka maza nai tbh

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@Labeed_Siddiqui Itna jaldi dil kese bhar gaya I remember you used to tweet on every boundary and wicket

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@zoobi240478 @wasifk77 Trying to speak in British accent but he can’t

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@GovernorSialkot @Umarkhan2300 Waja ager Pakistan rak sakta ha to wo kiyu nai why double phir Pakistan ko b chaiye usa ko de day

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@Ayeshakhan8711 I don’t remember

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@fatimabashir211 Nice 👌

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@fatimazyhra Are you still busy?

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@graymattermess Ap b ker Lena aise 😀

[Faisal Ali @kashmirman3]

@fatimazyhra Acha