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.
افسوسناک، افسوسناک، پمز اسپتال کے چلڈرن وارڈ میں آتشزدگی سے 14 نومولود بچے جل کر جاں بحق، وہ پھول مرجھا گئے جو ابھی مکمل طور پر کھلے بھی نہیں تھے۔۔!!
اس کا ذمہ دار کون ہے اتنے بڑے سانحے پر مصطفی کمال صاحب کو استعفی دینا چائیے
عاشقِ رسول ﷺ ہونے کے لئے ڈگریوں یا دیگر قابلیت ضروری نہیں۔ جب اللہ انسان کے دل میں اس عشق کو سما دے تو وہ سچا مسلمان بن جاتا ہے۔ عمران خان
#TorturingImranKhanIsACrime
ہم ربیع الاوّل مناتے ہیں، ہم خوشیاں مناتے ہیں، ہم پٹاخے بھی چلاتے ہیں، مگر کیا ہم ان کی زندگی کے مطابق عمل بھی کرتے ہیں؟ عمران خان
#TorturingImranKhanIsACrime
عمران خان دنیا کے عظیم کرکٹر اور سابق وزیراعظم ہیں، مانتے ہیں ہمیں قانون کا علم نہیں، صرف انسانیت کی خاطر قیدی کی بنیادی سہولیات اور علاج کا مطالبہ کر رہے ہیں، اس کے علاوہ ہم کچھ اور نہیں مانگ رہے۔ کپل دیو
آج پریس کانفرنس کے دوران عمران خان کی ہمشیرہ اور حسان نیازی کی والدہ نورین خان کی آنکھوں سے بہنے والے یہ آنسو محض آنسو نہیں بلکہ ایک بہن کے کرب اور ایک ماں کی بے شمار قربانیوں کی داستان ہیں 💔😢
What is happening to @imrankhanPTI is an abuse on every conceivable level.
Passively monitoring the situation is plainly not enough. It is time for active diplomacy.
-An urgent letter to Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband
“This is a complete violation of the Supreme Court’s orders. There was no thorough check-up.”
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s family accuses gov’t of defying hospital order https://t.co/PfeOIj7t9S
🚨🚨🚨پاکستانیوں اس گفتگو کا ایک ایک لفظ سنو تاکہ تمھارا غصہ طوفان بن سکے
عمران خان نے بار بار کہا کہ بتاو میرے ساتھ کتنا ظلم ہو رہا ہے ،
ہمارے لیڈر پر اس قدر ظلم ، کبھی ظالموں تمھیں معاف نہیں کیا جائے گا
”ججز کو فیصلہ کرنا ہو گا، پاکستان میں یا عدالتوں کو تالے لگا دیئے جائیں یا پھر عدالتیں اپنے فیصلوں پر عملدرآمد کروائیں۔ اگر کوئی عدالتوں کا فیصلہ نہیں مانے گا تو یہ ملک، بانانا ری پبلک بن جائے گا۔“ وزیراعلٰی خیبرپختونخوا، @SohailAfridiISF#ContemptOfCourt