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[DrJalil @drjalil247]

PCB can go to Hell!!

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

My sons Sulaiman & @kasim_khan_1999 applied for visas in January (again… ) to allow them to visit their father @ImranKhanPTI in Pakistan. The Pakistan consulate states that online visa processing normally takes 7–10 working days. It has now been 60 days. This despite the public promise that they could safely travel there to see their father after 4 years, made by both Defence Minister @khawajaMAsif to @mehdirhasan & PM spokesperson @mosharrafzaidi to @SkyYaldaHakim
Meanwhile, they are not allowed to speak to him on the phone, nor send him a letter. They haven’t seen him since 2022 after he was shot in an assassination attempt.
This is an appeal directly to Pakisan’s PM @CMShehbaz to please allow Imran Khan’s two sons to see their father asap, particularly since, by all accounts, his health is in decline.

[Bloomberg @business]

The sons of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said efforts to visit their jailed father have hit a wall, saying Pakistani authorities have repeatedly stalled or rejected their visa applications as concerns grow over his health https://t.co/xZYz2ohT34

[Financial Times @FT]

Pakistan's imprisoned former leader may not survive his imprisonment unless he's given proper medical treatment, one of his sons said. https://t.co/qa06Whhw0K

[Dr. Shahbaz GiLL @SHABAZGIL]

Please retweet this tweet and forward it to your contacts as well. We all need to raise our voices against this brutality.

[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.

[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

[Rahul Rawat @rawatrahul9]

Three former India greats - Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar - are among 22 former cricketers of the world, who have appealed to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to provide ‘humane treatment and proper medical care,” to Imran Khan.

[Ch Fawad Hussain @fawadchaudhry]

Ex-cricket captains urge PM Shehbaz to honour SC orders on Imran Khan’s treatment – The Blind Side https://t.co/PIaauJ2uWP

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Top international cricketers write to Shehbaz Sharif
Renewed appeal for Imran Khan's medical treatment

@ahuja_harshit94 @sriya_kundu

[Vikrant Gupta @vikrantgupta73]

Just last month I spoke to Kapil Dev on Imran Khan and the letter all international captains wrote to Pakistan PM in February, asking for proper medical attention, treatment and human rights for their former Prime Minister who also happens to be their greatest cricketer
And today the 22 captains have written again, asking for Pak SC’s directives to be followed

[NDTV Sports @Sports_NDTV]

Sunil Gavaskar And Kapil Dev Among 21 Ex-Captains Appealing For Imran Khan's Treatment

https://t.co/RF9Lfxd2OX

[TOI Sports @toisports]

21 former captains, including Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, renew appeal over Imran Khan's medical treatment

READ: https://t.co/KzcINLE4dl

✍️ @toi_gauravG

#Gavaskar #KapilDev #ImranKhan

[Ajay Jadeja @AjayJadeja171]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

22 Former Int'l Cricket Captains have once again written a letter to Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif over the treatment for Imran Khan. They first wrote a similar letter in Feb, 2026

Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar are among the 22 former captains

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

A group of 21 former international cricket captains, including India greats Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, have renewed their appeal to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, urging his government to ensure "humane treatment and proper medical care" for former Pakistan captain and prime minister Imran Khan.

#ImranKhan #SunilGavaskar #KapilDev #ShehbazSharif

Read More: https://t.co/ZePedxuBk7

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

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

[WION @WIONews]

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan transferred from Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad under tight security

Source: ANI

[Gulf Today @gulftoday]

Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan taken back to jail after hospital checks https://t.co/sXTkpuJ1mB

[WION @WIONews]

#RaceToPower | Former Pak PM Imran Khan back in jail after hospital visit

Imran Khan's sister fears for his life

Political and foreign affairs expert @adnanqaiser01 joins @eriknjoka and @ShreyaOpines with more insights

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan was briefly taken to a hospital in the country’s capital on supreme court orders after weeks of uproar about his deteriorating health. https://t.co/EfjdmjUSTG