Shahveer

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@GabbbarSingh I don't like this military tout but India's prospects have diminished recently under EAM Jaishankar, india needs to reset global geopolitical approach

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@Junaid_Mattu Asim Munir's downfall

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@GouravVallabh *counting

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@GouravVallabh Gourav sahb kis monh se jhoot bolte ho aap, sharm nahi aati. Till yesterday u were continued economic blunders of Modi govt, how come are now they wonders

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@GowharGeelani @AzeemRafiq30 Asim Munir, Mohsin Naqvi n other pawns

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@TahirPeerzada_ @WajahatIqbal2 @incredibleindia @WithManish0 The best food I tasted outside valley is certainly Mumbai

[Becky Anderson @BeckyCNN]

Imran Khan's family, political party and fellow cricket players are sounding the alarm over his deteriorating health in prison. I spoke to his close aide Zulfi Bukhari about his latest condition and the court case his party's filing against the Pakistani government over Khan's hospital visit last week:

[Economic Times @EconomicTimes]

They're blatantly trying to kill him in there: Imran Khan's sons voice fears for his safety
https://t.co/wtIG802Gfy

[CricTracker @Cricketracker]

Australian captain Pat Cummins has voiced his support for Imran Khan, backing calls for dignity, continued family visits and due process in his medical assessment.

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@GongR1ght Chal dafok bosdike

[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

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@shrutammegopaya Still rate Akash chopra worst cricketer of all times to represent India

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@sajjadmustafa Bajwe dalle

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@fadingchinar Exactly,

[Iltija Mufti @IltijaMufti_]

Mehbooba Mufti Sahiba writes on Imran Khan’s inhumane incarceration -

‘Perhaps the release of Imran Khan followed by a genuinely free, fair & transparent political process, could become the beginning of that change in Pakistan.

Sometimes returning to the pavilion is not the end of the innings. It can be the moment when the game itself is finally changed’

https://t.co/Xhl9FKUmS3

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Pakistan: “A lion trapped in a cage: Imran Khan’s ongoing solitary confinement is an inhuman cruelty. The international order has remained conspicuously silent about Khan’s ordeal, but a coalition of cricket captains remains hopeful." https://t.co/h8kB2WaqzV

[Workers Party of Britain @WorkersPartyGB]

The incarceration and torture of Imran Khan and others was the decapitation of the first truly sovereign leadership of Pakistan.

[Shahveer @mirhilal]

@nimishdubey That India' was civilized, upright n moral in the field of sports. That's we have Sachin, Dravid Kumble Kapil da Gavaskar etc now we have chomu like Jaiswal

[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.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The ongoing detention and shocking mistreatment of Imran Khan is a grave violation of human rights, democracy and basic decency.

I reiterate my calls for his release.