Maryam

I don't really talk to a lot of people anymore

[inspéra @insperarise]

hand knitted pastel winter scarves 🧶

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

just a little cozy life

[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.

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Never in my life I thought Id ever say it but garlic pickle is my favourite new thing 😁

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Little one said girls don't drive. Girls can't go to office/job. Girls can only do makeup and sleep.

Lil baby chauvinist in the making 🥲

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Does Hogwarts fund Muggle born wizards and witches? Where do they get their wizard money from?

[Maryam @mrymraja]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Maryam @mrymraja]

@Mo7ammed_jawad6 🇵🇸

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Modi is having his moment of bisti " Pakistan NE hum p he hamla krdia " and this lady minister said... Me kahin peeche na reh jaao

Chalein batayein JF 17 kis NE banaya?

[' @sialoved]

💀💀

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Nation KO Immi ki Yaad AA rhi thi,
Army Aurangzeb KO le ai

Awaam k lye chota sa nim ul badal

No competition....Dono apni jaga cuties Hain

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Woh Nurpur wapis Lena start kr dein? 🤪

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Teaching him, them Markhors are eating Rafaels now ......

[Maryam @mrymraja]

So I often ask my son what Markhor eats and he says Snakes. General knowledge.

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Try going to the Moon again....maybe

[Maryam @mrymraja]

Chalein twitter phir band kr dein . Thank you

[Maryam @mrymraja]

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