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[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

It has now been around 1,100 days since my father, Imran Khan, was imprisoned, and my brother and I haven’t heard his voice since March. For months, we’ve been denied contact with him. We remain in the dark about his access to healthcare as his eyesight continues to deteriorate. He urgently needs medical attention, and with no family or legal access, we don’t even get any second hand information or reassurance.

I’ve found myself especially missing him recently. I want to speak to him about mundane things like my cricket, books I’ve been reading and what new movies are good. I understand the people of Pakistan want their chosen leader free, but I miss my father more than ever.

But this is not just about a father. It is about Pakistan, and its future. A rigged, authoritarian regime continues to crush political opposition, undermine democratic institutions, and deny millions of Pakistanis their right to freely choose their leaders, whilst terrorising those who speak their beliefs.

I once again plea to the international community to not look away. Silence in the face of injustice only enables it.

[Abdullah @michaelscottfc]

Oh captain, my captain

[Tehreek-e-Insaf @InsafPK]

#StopRiskingImranKhansLife

He is 73 years old. He will not make a deal but for that nobody has the right to risk his life via solitary confinement and extreme violations of Human Rights!

[Sami Abraham @samiabrahim]

Today, Javed Miandad spoke the truth about Imran Khan with tears in his eyes—and it felt like a thunderous slap across the faces of those self-proclaimed “legends.”
After Sharjah, Miandad has hit another six today—this time straight into the hearts of the entire nation.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

Proud of my nephews today

[Faizan @faizannriaz]

Pat Cummins speaking up for Imran Khan is a brutal reality check for the so-called “apolitical” hypocrites who hide behind “keep sports away from politics.”

This is not politics. This is humanity. Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality.

[Aussies Army🏏🦘 @AussiesArmy]

Captain Pat Cummins👍

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

I’m just so impressed by the bravery of these boys. They take after their father @ImranKhanPTI and though he has been locked away in inhumane, life threatening isolation and will not have seen their many interventions, I know he would be so proud to see them fighting for justice

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves

[Saj Sadiq @SajSadiqCricket]

Michael Atherton "It was Greg Chappell who initiated the first letter in February of this year. He contacted 13 former international captains and said it's time for cricket to raise it's voice. We repeated that letter with 21 names attached to that letter. It's really important to stress that we are not trying to interfere in the legal or judicial process in Pakistan. This is a humanitarian appeal because there are increasing concerns about the health and wellbeing of Imran Khan. He is 73 years of age, he's been held in prison now for more than 3 years. The former players who signed the letter many of them played against Imran and he's held in the highest regard as a former player and one of the greatest players that Pakistan has produced. There is an increasing sense of urgency around his health and we want to make sure that he gets the proper and requisite medical care" #ImranKhan

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

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

[Faizan @faizannriaz]

I know a man who discussed a woman’s menstrual cycle with her ex-husband on national television.

[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.

[Mohammad Shehzad Khan @MShehzadSpeaks]

علیمہ خان کا دو ٹوک اعلان 🚨

پارٹی ایسے ریلیکس ہے جیسے عمران خان کا علاج ہو گیا ہے، جو عمران خان کے بیانیہ کا بوجھ نہیں اٹھا سکتا ، وہ سائیڈ پر ہو جائے

[DrJalil @drjalil247]

What a shame not even one Pakistani cricketer!
No wonder the losers have lousy performances.

[Jehanzeb Paracha @JehanzebParacha]

SHAME
on
YOU:

@wasimakramlive
@iramizraja
@Inzamam08
@waqyounis99
@Mushy_online

Imran Khan shaped your careers!

Simply signing this letter wouldn’t have caused you any trouble from military regime, but would have elevated your repute.

#StopTortureOnNationalHero

[Faisal Khan @KaliwalYam]

یہ پیغام آج ہر کسی کے ٹائم لائن پر ہونا چاہیئے 🔥

[Bakhtawar khan @Bakhtt_PTI]

پارٹی ایسے ریلیکس ہے جیسے عمران خان کا علاج ہو گیا ہے، جو عمران خان کے بیانیہ کا بوجھ نہیں اٹھا سکتا ، وہ سائیڈ پر ہو جائے
علیمہ خان

[Dexie @dexiewrites]

nothing in this world will ever make us forget that Shehbaz Sharif became PM on the very day he was supposed to be indicted.

[Jameel Farooqui @FarooquiJameel]

انتہائی سے بھی زیادہ تکلیف دِہ مناظر 👇