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.
🚨عوام کی ڈیمانڈ پر ایچ ڈی کوالٹی میں مکمل ستلج فلم ۔🚨
ایچ ڈی کوالٹی میں مکمل دوبارہ دیکھیے ۔
وہ فلم جس کو مودی نے انڈیا میں بین کیا ۔جس کو نیٹ فلیکس سے اتار دیا ۔
کیونکہ رجیم چینج والے سارے لوگ چاہتے ہیں عوام کے ساتھ جو ناجائز سلوک ریاست اور حکومت کرتی ہے وہ کوئی نہ دیکھے ۔
دیکھا جائے تو اس وقت برصغیر کے تمام ممالک میں یہی حالات ہیں جو ستلج میں دیکھائے گے ہیں ۔
کیا ہمارے پنجاب یا باقی صوبوں میںُ بھی ایسے حالات ہیں جو انڈیا کی پنجاب میں دیکھائے گے ہیں ؟
اس کا حل کیا ہے ۔۔۔
Today, I had the honour of speaking to the 47 countries that comprise the @UN#HumanRightsCouncil urging the immediate release of my father @imrankhanpti and all #Pakistan’s #politicalprisoners. Along with this, I want to be very clear. Like my father, I fully support maintaining GSP+ as the people of #Pakistan should never be punished for the actions of its leaders. But the Pakistani regime must also fully comply with the 27 treaties it committed to follow to obtain this benefit, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Convention Against Torture. @UN@ptiofficial #HumanRights #ImranKhanUnlawfullyDetained
“The judges in this country should be ashamed of themselves. Time and time again we have gone to the judiciary. But they have sold their souls for their paid personal privileges. They have sold their integrity. They know they cannot break me, so they turn to my wife. How they can allow this inhumane treatment to Bushra BiBi, simply to blackmail me. She spends 24 hours a day in isolation, except for 30 minutes with me per week - and even that is often ignored. It is unislamic to harm women, children and the elderly - and their motives are plain and clear. The judges are responsible for the justice in a society. They should be ashamed of themselves.”
Illegally Incarcerated Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speaking to his sons on phone from Adiala Jail - (March 21, 2026)
تیل اور بجلی کی قیمتوں پر ہر اپوزیشن سیاست کرتی ہے مسلم لیگ ن جب اپوزیشن میں تھی تو چند روپے تیل مہنگا ہونے پر آسمان سر پر اٹھا لیتی تھی اب خود حکومت میں آئی ہے تو تیل کی قیمت میں 55 روپے فی لیٹر اضافے کی وجہ عالمی منڈی کی قیمت کو قرار دیتی ہے لیکن وہاں تو آج تیل سستا ہو گیا🤔
35 شہادتیں پاکستان میں ہوئیں ہیں، 16 کراچی ، 7 گلگت ، 6 افراد اسکردو میں اور اسلام آباد میں 6 افراد ماردئیے گئے جبکہ سینکڑوں زخمی ہیں، علامہ شہنشاہ نقوی
Indian cricket greats Gavaskar and Kapil join join the call for better treatment of @ImranKhanPTI. It is time for #Pakistan establishment to heed these calls. But will it? I hope so. If it does not, history and the patriotic Pakistanis will judge it harshly.
https://t.co/iPnpVczuAn
Mike Atherton said, "I am one of the 14 Test captains asking for Imran Khan to be treated with dignity. Pakistan's World Cup winning captain and former prime minister, needs immediate medical attention and deserves basic human consideration in prison".
International cricket legends express deep concern for the well being of @ImranKhanPTI. As a sport star, Imran Khan brought honor and distinction to #Pakistan. Every Pakistani should care about his wellbeing. Why wouldn't the establishment care about the wellbeing of this distinguished son of #Pakistan?
https://t.co/sxfFfauKwa
The one time I met him at an event in Delhi it was just after I had returned from a trip to Lahore during which I had spent a day with the physicians and patients at the Shaukat Khannum Cancer Hospital he had set up in his mother’s name. He was so happy I had seen his work.
رانا ثنااللہ صاحب کا بیان اس بات کی گواہی ہے کہ عمران خان صاحب کو بار بار ڈیل آفر کی گئی ہے مگر وہ ڈیل پر تیار نہیں ہیں بلکہ آگے سے اپنی شرائط بتاتے ہیں ؛ اب وہ لوگ جو کہتے ہیں کہ عمران خان ڈیل کے لیئے ترس رہے ہیں ان کو تو غشی کے دورے پڑ رہے ہوں گے؟
Deeply saddened to hear about Imran bhai. Cricket has given us many shared moments, and as a fellow sportsman who has shared the platform and learned from him, I sincerely appeal that he be treated with dignity. Praying for his good health and strength for his family.
@ImranKhanPTI #ImranKhanHealthEmergency
Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has told a court-appointed lawyer that authorities at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail repeatedly ignored his complaints about deteriorating eyesight and that he is now left with only “15% vision” in his right eye, reports @johnstanly
https://t.co/w3reOSnYC5
जेलमा रहेका पाकिस्तानका पूर्वप्रधानमन्त्री इमरान खानले आफ्नो दाहिने आँखाको ८५ प्रतिशत दृष्टि गुमाएको उनका वकिलले बताएका छन्।
पाकिस्तानको सर्वोच्च अदालतमा पेस गरिएको प्रतिवेदनमा अधिकारीहरूले उनको उचित उपचारका लागि अनुमति नदिएको आरोप लगाइएको छ।
उक्त प्रतिवेदनअनुसार पूर्वप्रधानमन्त्री खानले कैयौँ महिनाअघि नै आँखा मधुरो देख्न थालेको तर प्रशासनले उनलाई आँखामा हाल्ने औषधि मात्र दिएको थियो।
पूरै आँखा देख्न छोडेपछि सुरु गरिएको उपचारका कारण आंशिक मात्रामा मात्रै उनको ज्योति फर्किएको दाबी उनका वकिलको छ।
#BBCNepali #ImranKhan #Pakistan