It has been 30 days since my mother and my aunts, Dr. Uzma and Noreen Niazi, were unlawfully detained under the MPO. Throughout their detention at Kot Lakhpat Jail, they have been denied access to family and legal counsel.
No one, especially women, should be subjected to such treatment. With the detention order now ending, they must be released immediately.
🚨🇵🇰 Imran Khan’s sister, Aleem-a-Khan, got her 30-DAY PUBLIC ORDER DETENTION OVER, and the Pakistani government is not letting ANYONE see her
She was held under a colonial-era law for nothing more than speaking out.
Her family was locked out, with lawyers as well, and with no order and no explanation.
Immediate release is the only lawful step left!
@KhanShershah / Writer: Lucas
Nothing but vindictive pettiness: Former England captains Nasser Hussain & Michael Atherton have been dropped from the commentary team for the ongoing ODI tri-series by the Pakistan Cricket Board. Just because Sky Sports had interviewed Imran Khan's sons, Kasim and Sulaiman Khan.
Imran Khan’s cousin, Qasim Zaman, a completely non-political individual who has never made public statements or participated in politics, has now also been detained under the draconian MPO. Mass human rights violations continue as Pakistan continues its free fall into what they proudly call a “hard state.”And all of this is happening while UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres is visiting Pakistan.
Surely Imran Khan’s treatment and fundamental rights must be on the agenda, but so too must the detention and persecution of his family members, party leaders and workers.
Pakistan is not being “reset.” It is being dismantled.
Dr Uzma and her sisters are incarcerated illegally and unconstitutionally. @ImranKhanPTI brother in law Ahad, asks what purpose does it serve to torture his wife and family , for what?
NEWS UPDATE: First Imran Khan was arrested. Now his sisters and nephews have been detained ahead of the PTI march. Pakistan’s civil-military ‘establishment’ keeps showing just how threatened it feels by the Khans. All that public bravado, but behind it, a fear of facing them politically. https://t.co/KvLOxFMN9N
UPDATE: Further accounts are emerging from the police raids on the neighbouring homes of Imran Khan’s sisters, Aleema Khan and Dr Uzma Khan.
Sakeena, their 20-year-old niece, who was arrested and later released, says more than 200 police entered the properties, broke down Dr Uzma’s bedroom door and dragged staff from their quarters.
Aleema Khan’s two sons were also detained and, according to the family, released around three hours later.
IMRAN KHAN’S ENTIRE FAMILY HAS BEEN ABDUCTED!
The former Prime Minister’s sisters and their children have all been taken away
This has gone too far!! Pakistan deserves better!!
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WTF IS GOING ON IN PAKISTAN!
They arrest the former Prime Minister Imran Khan, put him in solitary confinement for years, do the same to his wife, then start arresting his family
And now arrest his sister, who's in her 70s, because she's speaking out in support of her brother! the former PRIME MINISTER!!!
Enough is enough! THE FAMILY HAS BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH!
UPDATE: The crackdown appears to be widening. After Aleema Khan’s 30-day detention, family members say homes linked to Imran Khan’s sisters have been raided — and that Aleema’s two sons and her 20-year-old niece Sakina have also been detained.
Cricket legend Imran Khan is rotting to death in a tiny jail cell in Pakistan. It's time Britain used its influence to help free him
https://t.co/Yf5eCx2fAi
Imran Khan’s sister Aleema breaks her silence to me about his treatment in prison — from restricted access to family and lawyers to fears for his health and safety. A rare, intimate glimpse inside the jail cell of Pakistan’s most popular — and most divisive — political figure. #ImranKhan #Pakistan
Deeply concerning to see Aleema Khan, sister of jailed former PM Imran Khan, arrested and detained for 30 days under the Maintenance of Public Order law — days before PTI’s planned Sept 27 protest.
I interviewed her in December about her brother’s imprisonment.
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Final confirmation of arrests , Dr Uzma Khan and Noreen Khanum, along with Dr Uzma’s son Azeem, Aleema Khan’s sons Shahrez and Sher Shah, Noreen Khanum’s daughter Sakina, two female staff members and the family’s chef Mustafa malik , have all been arrested and taken to an undisclosed location.
This is a disgrace.
Now my Aunts Dr. Uzma and Noureen, along with my cousins Shershah and Shahrez have now been abducted as well.
They have broken into my aunties and cousins houses and forced them
into vehicles with no explanation.
No reasons for arrest have been stated.
No news has been released as to where they have been taken.
This is criminal behaviour. Inexcusable. The Pakistani people are petrified of their own leaders.
No upstanding nation should tolerate this criminal establishment. Intervention is now imperative.
The world MUST take action.
And it get’s worse.
My cousin Shahrez’s 2 children of 4 and 6 years old are now missing.
There is no limit to their cruelty. Complete disregard for humanity.