Nadeem 🇨🇦

[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.

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

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[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@DeniseVict9176 @grok what’s happening here?

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@benonwine @grok, what is halal method exactly? Why its considered cruel to animal?

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@realMaalouf @grok, verify this claim

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@info_maiden @grok, what happened here?

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@kangminlee @grok, kindly confirm this story

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@realspitfire @grok, is it true?

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@PrashantTdixit @oracleace @Oracle Congratulations @PrashantTdixit

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@mario4thenorth Pray at home or in the mosque. This approach isn't right and should be discouraged.

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@mario4thenorth Definitely thieves

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@CTVNews Like he really needed it 😳. It will make things worse between the two countries. Let’s play sensible guys.

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@ABDanielleSmith @fordnation, borrow some courage from @ABDanielleSmith and don't play fool in liberal hands

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@MelissaLMRogers WTF 😳

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@sabine_kayani Sanf e aahan

[The Pleb 🇨🇦 @truckdriverpleb]

Canadians have started a petition demanding an election

It has 30,000 signatures in one day

Let's get this to 1,000,000

It ends on January 18th

https://t.co/3PlDriemvD

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@LarryBrockMP I wish he will never get his pension.

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@MarcNixon24 These both parties should sink into the bottom of Atlantic ocean in the next election. Tax paying citizens are really suffering and these JT and JS are more interested in their dirty games.

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@DrJacobsRad @JustinTrudeau @theJagmeetSingh difficult question indeed. they both are working really hard to defeat each other in this race.

[Nadeem 🇨🇦 @nhameed]

@fawadchaudhry You're a fake and phony.