Pakistan threatened Lord’s Test boycott after broadcaster Sky Sports telecast interview with Imran Khan’s two sons which was actually recorded at the Lord’s Long Room a day before the Test. PCB wanted SKY not to air the interview during Lunch break else they wouldn’t take the field post Lunch.
The 18-min interview done by Michael Atherton (one of the 21 captains to sign the letter to Pak PM) was shown and Pak did take the field too
#PakvsEng
Five-year-old Ayat Noor’s rape case: Ayat Noor’s father, family and people of Haripur are demanding the harshest possible punishment, including public execution, for those found guilty.
#JusticeForAyatNoor
The Bhutto family is pretending they’re not part of this system, but they have been part of this fucking system since the vote of no confidence. Your father is the President, and the Senate Chairman is from your party.
فجر کے وقت میرا بیٹا پیدا ہوا میں نے اس کے کان میں آذان دی اور حضور ص کے نام پر اپنے بیٹے کا نام محمد رکھا۔
جب آگ لگی تو نرسری کے گیٹ کو تالا لگا ہوا تھا، والدین نے اپنی مدد آپ کے تحت بچوں کو نکالا ہماری مدد کے لیے نا فائر بریگیڈ کا اور نہ کوئی اور عملہ موجود تھا۔
آدھے گھنٹے سے زیادہ وقت کے بعد فائر بریگیڈ پہنچی تب تک بچے جل چکے تھے۔
چار سال بعد مجھے اللہ نے بیٹا دیا اب میں کس سے ہرجانہ وصول کروں۔
ایک غمگین والد کی فریاد
14 newborn babies. I cannot process this. Imagine bringing your child into this world, all that excitement, love, the life you’ve already imagined for them. You hand your baby over to a hospital thinking this is the safest place they could possibly be. And before you’ve even had the chance to spend one day with them in this world, they’re gone. Not because you couldn’t save them. Because the place that was supposed to keep them safe failed them. 14 mothers going home without the child they came with. There are no words for this. Babies burned to death inside a HOSPITAL. How is that even a sentence we are reading? And there cannot just be another inquiry and then silence. Someone has to answer for this!!
Health Minister Mustafa Kamal, in a statement about the PIMS incident, said that government hospitals do not have the same fire-safety equipment and facilities that are available in high-end private hospitals.
MashaAllah, Health Minister Sahib, it wasn’t your child, so you will never know the pain that comes with such a loss.
This is our Health Minister, with this completely unacceptable attitude. The people of this nation will continue to face such unfortunate events until these incompetent authorities are replaced by more experienced and capable individuals.
It’s gut wrenching to see the visuals. Ayat Noor’s body was recovered from a well after 15 days.
Hang the r@pists in the chowk. Make an example out of them. Make strict laws for such bastards and save our daughters. #JusticeForAyatNoor
She was unmarried & alive for 44 years, getting education, thriving professionally, taking care of her parents.. less than one year of being married & she’s dead. Wish being married was not seen as the ultimate purpose of one’s life in our society #justiceforhinajaved
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.
He once told us in a lecture that his mother is really old & weak but he 'lets' her get him dinner when he gets home cuz thats the only way she can feel useful in her old age. He 'lets' her. Otherwise she'd have no purpose in life and be useless
This man could justify anything