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[Firstpost @firstpost]

Jemima Goldsmith, an English film producer and the former wife of Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan, has urged the UK government to intervene over his alleged treatment in prison.

[Khan Saab @Hanii_tales]

Kapil Dev on Imran Khan: “We're asking for basic humanity & proper care for someone who’s a legend.”

Huge respect to foreign & Indian cricketers for raising their voice for IK. Meanwhile, Pakistani cricketers lack the spine to say a single word. Shameful.

[Aleema khan @ikhan_17]

"Imran Khan is a great cricketer and a former Prime Minister. We may not understand all the laws or technicalities, but strictly on humanitarian grounds, we demand his basic rights and proper medical care. We are asking for nothing more than that." — Kapil Dev

[m najib khan @mnajeebkhan]

@sardesairajdeep @najamsethi Pls don’t call Najam a journalist. He is a pimp of establishment.

[m najib khan @mnajeebkhan]

@sardesairajdeep @najamsethi Najam Sethi is not a journalist, this moron is a puppet in the hands of the corrupt, cruel army generals who in return are slaves of US.Tump doesn’t want Pakistan to be a free democratic country. They throw some bones to the establishment & continue to use the so called generals

[m najib khan @mnajeebkhan]

@dna @SaraMirGilgity Unfortunately the so called pm is a boot licker peon boy of the terrorist in uniform who has declared himself self styled army chief. Asim zehni mareez is himself a peon boy of Trump admin. who don’t want Imran Khan to be freed as the latter believes in democracy.

[DNA @dna]

Legendary India captain Kapil Dev on Monday backed calls for humane treatment of jailed former Pakistan prime minister and World Cup-winning captain Imran Khan, saying he should be provided the best possible medical care and basic facilities.

The former cricketers have written to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the second time in six months, urging authorities to ensure proper medical treatment for Imran following directives from the country's Supreme Court.

#DNAUpdates | #KapilDev | #ImranKhan | #Pakistan

[TOI Sports @toisports]

Former India captain Kapil Dev has joined 21 former international captains in urging Pakistan to provide jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan with proper medical care and humane conditions.
https://t.co/kv1DD08OOZ

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

This happened on India’s OFFICIAL GOVT TV CHANNEL.

Taxpayer money is being used to platform such pathetic creatures by Modi-Shah.

DD is a public-funded channel where the only agenda is targeting the Opposition.

But this is WAY WORSE. Watch 👇

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇰 Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered Imran Khan moved to hospital. He was back in his cell within hours, and the whole episode captures exactly how his three years in custody have gone.

The backstory: Khan, 73, has been jailed since August 2023 on corruption convictions he and his party call politically motivated.

Concerns have built for months over his health, fluctuating blood pressure, anxiety the jail's own cardiac board linked to restricted family contact, and reported vision loss in one eye that first surfaced back in February.

Last week the Supreme Court ordered him transferred to Shifa International Hospital within 48 hours for an independent medical board assessment, with family access and calls to his sons abroad.

The government fought the order and even tried a review petition. When the transfer finally happened, Khan was diverted to a different, state-run hospital, PIMS, over what officials called a "security situation."

A six-doctor team, including a cardiologist and ophthalmologist, examined him overnight and declared him fit to remain in custody. By 5am he was back in Adiala jail.

@PTIofficial calls the whole sequence a violation of the court's order.

What makes this more than a routine prison-health story: Khan was Pakistan's elected prime minister until a 2022 no-confidence vote, and his imprisonment has become the central fault line in a country where the military has historically held the real levers of power.

Courts have sided with him on paper repeatedly, this is now at least the third medical order in a year, while the practical outcome each time is identical: examined, cleared, returned to the same cell.

The pattern itself, a former PM's health becoming a recurring legal battle rather than a settled fact, says something about how contested power actually is in Pakistan right now.

Source: The Telegraph / Writer: Oliver

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

What is the message going out when a former Pak PM and cricket captain in in jail and Qs are raised over his medical treatment? @najamsethi responds to the Inran Khan situation and more.

[Immi Can @IHameedQ]

Dear @CanadianPM @MarkJCarney!

I ask you the same question as @Jemima_Khan
How much longer will 🇨🇦 remain silent in @ImranKhanPTI’s illegal incarceration? There’ve been grave concerns among Canadian-Pakistanis RE: #HumanRightsViolations & #TransnationalRepression by 🇵🇰 regime

[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

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Ex-cricket captains urge 'proper medical care' for Imran Khan https://t.co/dNMvqRB1bY

[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.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

FREE IMRAN KHAN.
https://t.co/FUqWuvVFay

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

#Watch | Greg Chappell and 20 other former international skippers, including Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Dilip Vengsarkar, Arjuna Ranatunga, Clive Lloyd and Nasser Hussein, urge humane treatment for Imran Khan.
https://t.co/zgH8swEyVQ

[N. Ram @nramind]

Support & share this letter by 21 upstanding former cricket captains: “Former cricket captains urge Pakistan for ‘humane treatment, proper medical care’ for Imran Khan” - https://t.co/0HTz3vP3E7 For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. https://t.co/REenj2RIef

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