The Patriot

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

A personal plea to @elonmusk
My two sons have not been allowed to see or speak to their father Imran Khan who has been held unlawfully (acc to the UN) for 22 months of solitary confinement.
X is the only place left where we can still tell the world he is a political prisoner without basic human rights.
Yet every time I post about him, the reach inside Pakistan (and often globally) is throttled to almost zero.
You promised free speech, not “speech but no one hears it”.
Please fix the visibility filtering on my account so we can get the message out! @MarioNawfal

[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.

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@Sikanderbakhts @MohsinnaqviC42 @TheRealPCBMedia Own credibility.

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@Sikanderbakhts @MohsinnaqviC42 @TheRealPCBMedia Who exactly are you to make such sweeping claims? You have neither asignificant record in cricket nor any meaningful contribution to the game, yet you speak as if you were an authority on Pakistan cricket.Before blaming other for‘destroying’ the structure,perhaps establish your

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@Fayazchohanpk دباؤ برداشت کرنے کے لیے ہڈیوں سے زیادہ حوصلہ چاہیے ہوتا ہے، اور آپ نے تو دباؤ میں آ کر پارٹی ہی چھوڑ دی۔ اب بھٹو بننے کی باتیں کچھ زیادہ ہی مزاحیہ لگتی ہیں۔ 😭

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@AneelaHashmi__ Your daughter is clearly learning from her mother. The apple really didn’t fall far from the tree 😭

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

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[Dr. Shahbaz GiLL @SHABAZGIL]

Please retweet and share this article and thank @RanaAyyub for raising her voice for democracy in Pakistan.

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

Imran Khan has been kept in solitary confinement for six months under brutal conditions, while Bushra Bibi is being held the same way. Their freedom is being deliberately blocked by the Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court, who refuses to fix their bail hearings.

Imran Khan has made it clear that the judiciary is no longer independent, it is acting like a tool of the government. Judges assigned to his cases are not delivering justice; they are ensuring hearings never happen. The reality is simple: the moment this case is heard, its weak and baseless nature will be exposed, and bail will become unavoidable. That is exactly why it is being stalled. Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi continued imprisonment is due to Judge Dogar, who is openly facilitating a government that came to power by stealing Imran Khan’s mandate.

Through Salman Safdar, Imran Khan has sent a message, his wife is being pushed to the edge by prolonged isolation. He has said he can endure this ظلم himself, but she is being broken to force him into submission. The pressure is deliberate, calculated, and inhumane. He said clearly “no deal, no surrender! It is liberty or death.”

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@iqrarulhassan I think sab ko chahiye k Iqrar ko block ker dein yeh fazool ki publicity chah Raha hai.

[Qasim Khan Suri @QasimKhanSuri]

پاکستان میں قید ہمارے والد سابق وزیرِ اعظم عمران خان کی طبیعت ٹھیک نہیں ہے جیل میں ان کے بنیادی انسانی حقوق سلب کیے گئے ہیں ملاقاتوں پر پابندی ہے ان کی رہائی کے لیے مداخلت کی جائے، عمران خان کو ان کے خاندان اور ڈاکٹرز تک رسائی دیجائے۔ قاسم خان سلمان خان
#SaveImranKhansEyesight

[PTI @PTIofficial]

شہید ارشد شریف کی اہم ترین ڈاکو منٹری ! عمران خان کو کیسے ہٹایا گیا تھا؟

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@SAfridiOfficial @CMShehbaz @MIshaqDar50 Chuk ke rakho...

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@ammarmasood3 You people are like sellout journalists who, after being paid off, try to present everything as good. Where does this Orange Train even take people? It’s useless nonsense being pushed onto the public. Instead of listing the so-called benefits of this useless Orange Train.

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@iqrarulhassan Oye dalay TU eik choooot hai...

[The Patriot @khaBadmash]

@MaryamNSharif @EngrMusman896 Jhoot..

[Samina khan @Saminakhan4000]

میری بیٹی کی عید پر کال آنی تھی…
میں بہت پریشان تھا کہ آخر کیا وجہ ہے کہ نہ داماد بات کروا رہا ہے اور نہ ہی بیٹی کی کوئی خبر ہے۔

عید گزر گئی… دل بے چین رہا، تو میں نے جہلم سے کراچی کی ٹرین پکڑی
اور بلدیہ ٹاؤن، اتحاد ٹاؤن میں اپنے داماد کے گھر پہنچ گیا۔

جب میں نے داماد کو کال کی تو اس نے کہا:
“ہم کہیں گئے ہوئے ہیں۔”

مجھے شک ہوا، میں نے اہلِ علاقہ سے پوچھا کہ میری بیٹی اس گھر میں رہتی تھی…
تو انہوں نے بتایا:
عید سے کچھ دن پہلے ایک شادی شدہ لڑکی کا انتقال ہوا تھا،
اور اسے دفنا بھی دیا گیا ہے۔

جب نام پوچھا تو پتا چلا… وہ میری بیٹی “مسکان” تھی 💔

یہ سن کر میرے قدموں تلے زمین نکل گئی…
میں وہیں گر گیا… مجھے یقین نہیں آ رہا تھا کہ میری بیٹی اب اس دنیا میں نہیں رہی۔

میں ایک بوڑھا باپ ہوں…
اتحاد ٹاؤن قائم خانی چوکی تھانے کے چکر لگا لگا کر تھک چکا ہوں،
لیکن 10 دن گزرنے کے باوجود ابھی تک مقدمہ درج نہیں کیا گیا۔

میری صرف ایک گزارش ہے:
میری بیٹی کی قبر کشائی کی جائے، اس کا پوسٹ مارٹم کیا جائے تاکہ حقیقت سامنے آ سکے۔

پولیس کا کہنا ہے کہ تحقیقات جاری ہیں…
لیکن میرا دل گواہی دے رہا ہے کہ میری بیٹی کے ساتھ ظلم ہوا ہے۔

😪 کیا کوئی ہے جو ایک بے بس باپ کے لیے آواز اٹھائے؟
میری ہڈیوں میں اب اتنی طاقت نہیں رہی…

📢 اگر آپ انصاف چاہتے ہیں تو اس آواز کو آگے پہنچائیں