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.
سابق آسٹریلین کپتان گریگ چیپل کا “Free Imran Khan” والی شرٹ پہن کر عمران خان کی رہائی کا مطالبہ۔ گریگ چیپل نے کچھ عرصہ قبل سابق انٹرنیشنل کرکٹ لیجنڈز کے ہمراہ عمران خان کی رہائی کے لیے خط بھی لکھا تھا۔
Rs 27 increase in petrol & diesel has nothing to do with international oil prices. This was entirely due to taxes. Why punish people if FBR fails to perform
آفرین ہے عمران خان پر ،جو اپنی زندگی پر قاتلانہ حملہ ،اپنے سیاسی کیریئر پر حملہ ، اپنے گھر پر حملہ ، اپنی بیوی کے کردار پر حملہ، اپنے گھر پر حملہ، اپنی بہنوں پر حملہ حتی کہ پورے پاکستان سے اپنے جیتے ہوئے مینڈیٹ پر حملہ سہہ گیا لیکن یوں کبھی آپے سے باہر نہیں ہوا۔ لیکن یہاں تو ایک فقرہ سن کر عوام راج کا سرعام منظر عام پر آ گیا ہے، سحرش مان
سورس جاننے کیلئے کیو آر کوڈ سکین کریں
#Pakistan
@SMunirMaan
زندگی میں پہلی بار ایسی جنگ دیکھی ہے جس میں مکمل اسلامی جھلک ہے۔ ایک شہسوار گرتا ہے تو دوسرا جھنڈا تھام لیتا ہے۔ اللہ پاک ایران کو ہمیشہ سر بلند رکھے🇮🇷
Qatar's PM: "This war needs to stop immediately. Everyone knows who the main beneficiary of this war is."
Qatar's PM told the world, this war serves someone's interests. And that someone is not in Tehran, Washington, or Doha — it's in Tel Aviv.
Total Countries in EU : 27
Countries supporting US - Israel strikes against Iran : 26
Countries opposing US - Israel strikes against Iran : 01
Dear Spain, 🇪🇸
The world loves you for your courage.
🔴🔴🔴مسجد اقصی کو میزائل مار کر گرایا جائے گا پھر وہاں یہودی عبادت خانہ بنایا جائے گا اور الزام لگادیا جائے گا کہ مسجد اقصی پر ایران نے میزائل مارا ہے ۔
امریکی صحافی ٹکر کارلسن نے اسرائیلی خفیہ پلان بے نقاب کردیا جس میں ایک مذہبی یہودی ربی کے کلپ کا حوالہ دیا گیا