#HappyBirthdayImranKhan
I don’t know any leader in the World from this era that can match your aura, statesmanship, resilience & love for their nation.
We must have done something right as a Nation to deserve your leadership. Thank you for being our identity, we love it!
I miss you, Kaptaan!
And I wish to see you soon, victorious … for the sake of Pakistan. Very few people in the World can match your aura & resilience. What you have achieved is once in a century type milestone … May Allah give you the best of health.
#HappyBirthdayImranKhan
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.
الحمدللہ
Time to rejoice.
For three years we have watched him endure isolation that would break most men. Cut off from newspapers, from books, from his family, from the country to which he gave everything. Tonight, finally, a door has opened. Prayers. Endless prayers. For his health, for his strength, for his full and complete recovery.
Those who know him, as I have for over 35 years, also know this about him: he is not vindictive. He does not carry hatred in his heart, even toward those who have wronged him. That has always been his strength, and it will be Pakistan's strength too, if we let it. This country does not need more anger. It needs peace. It needs healing. And I believe, I have to believe, that this is the first drop of that rain, of Allah's mercy.
What courage this man has shown. Three years. Isolation, illness, uncertainty, grief for his people and still, he did not bend. Emulating Tariq bin Ziyad and Salahuddin Ayubi, he did not trade his principles for comfort, persevered and endured. He did not succumb. History will remember this unique chapter, and it will remember it as a testament to what one man's conviction can withstand.
یقیں محکم، عمل پیہم، محبت فاتح عالم
I am overwhelmed tonight. Genuinely. Words feel small next to what this moment means, to his family, to his workers, to the tens of millions who have carried him in their prayers every single day of these three years.
Get well, Imran Khan. Pakistan needs you healthy to lead us as a Captain in the field of turbulent seas of confusion and chaos.
May Allah grant you a full recovery, and may this be the beginning of justice, of real justice — finally taking its course.
انشاللہ
جیسے جون کے مہینے میں بغیر ہیلمٹ اور چادر کے انسان موٹر سائیکل چلائے چلا جارہا ہو اور شدید پیاس لگی ہو پھر اچانک ایک سردائی والا نظر آجائے اور پھر آپ کو تھوڑی سی بھنگ بھی ملا دے۔ جیسے آپ کسی غیر ملکی ائیرپورٹ پر اکیلے بیٹھے ہوں ایک دعا لیپا ایسی خاتون آپ سے سامنے پڑی خالی کرسی کا پوچھ کر بیٹھ جائے اور گفتگو شروع ہوجائے۔ جیسے انسان اپنا فالودے کا پیالہ ختم کردے اور ساتھ بیٹھا دوست کہہ دے یار مجھ سے ختم نہیں ہورہا یہ لو تم لے لو۔ جیسے انسان سردیوں والی جیکٹ نکالے اسکی اندر والی جیب میں بیس بیس پاونڈ کے چار نوٹ نکل آئیں۔ جیسے آپ کسی کو کھانے کی دعوت پر شہر کے مہنگے ترین اسٹیک ہاوس لے جائیں اور بل مہمان زبردستی ادا کردے۔ جیسے آپ کو کنجوس دوست سے کریڈ تحفے میں مل جائے۔ جیسے اس حبس میں رات کے دو بجے آپ پسینے میں بھیگے ہوئے اٹھیں بجلی بند ہو اور پھر اچانک بجلی آجائے۔ جیسے بٹوے میں سے ایک سکہ نکل آئے جس پر کالا کالا سا کچھ چپکا ہو۔ جیسے سوموار کو دفتر سے چھٹی مل جائے
جیسے صحراؤں میں ہولے سے چلے باد نسیم
جیسے بیمار کو بے وجہ قرار آجائے
توں نوں نوں نوں نوں نوں مم ہم ہم ام ہم مم
آج یوں موج در موج غم تھم گیااس طرح غمزدوں کو قرار آگیا
جیسے خوشبوئے زلف بہار آگئی جیسے پیغام دیدار یار آگیا
کل جنید جمشید کے ایک گانے کی دو چار لائنز لکھی تھی مشکل وقت کے بارے میں۔ آج کسی سوشل میڈیا ٹایگریس نے اسی گانے پر یہ IK Edit بنا کر بھیجی۔
کافی لوگ سامنے آکر اپنے نام سے پوسٹ نہیں کر سکتے آجکل مگر دل اب بھی عمران خان اور پاکستان کے لیے فکر مند ہے اور سب سوشل میڈیا کنزیوم کر رہے ہوتے ہیں۔
یہ وڈیو ایڈٹ ان سب کے لیے جو خاموش کروا دیے گئے مگر جہاں موقعہ ملتا ہے وہاں اپنا حصہ ڈالتے ہیں۔
#ReleaseImranKhan
My latest for the Washington Post on Imran Khan. The legendary cricketer and politician Pakistan can jail, censor but never erase. @PostOpinions
https://t.co/F5YMqo9I5Y
The world respects & admires Imran Khan!
The current dictators & rulers of Pakistan don’t even come close to the aura and charisma of Imran Khan. They are hurting Pakistan by keeping IK behind bars. The Nation will never forget this pain & their generations will be ridiculed!
#خان_کا_قرض_مزاحمت_فرض
@kumailn
مانا کہ مشکل ہے سفر پر سن او مسافر
کہیں اگر تو رکا تو منزل آے گی نہ پھر
قدم قدم ملاۓ جا، گگن گگن جکاۓ جا
رکھ حوصلہ، کر فیصلہ، تجھے وقت بدلنا ہے
کچھ بھی کریں، ہار کبھی نا مانیں۔ یہ نظام گرتی دیوار ہے، پتہ نہیں کون سا دھکّا کب کام آجائے اور ظلم ختم ہو
#StopKhansIllegalDetention
@IrfanPathan This is fact actually beauty of Islam ☪️ it's mean do ur sadqa/zakwat to deserving ppl n make sure there self respect won't hurt... it's not funny.. don't make fun of sch great act of our great religion
A heartfelt song by Turkish poet Turgay Evren (@turgayEvren1), calling for the freedom of a leader whose voice matters on Gaza, Kashmir, and every struggle for justice.
#ReleaseImranKhan