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.
السلام علیکم
صبح بخیر
یا اللہ میرے کپتان میرے لیڈر کی مدد فرما آمین
یا اللہ میرے لیڈر کو پابند سلاسل سے جلد از جلد رہائی نصیب فرما آمین اپنی امان میں رکھنا آمین
#جعلی_حکومت_کی_توہین_عدالت#ReleaseImranKhan
@Z804k1 وعلیکم السلام ورحمۃ اللہ وبرکاتہ ❤️
دل سے سلام قبول کیجیے! 🌹
محبت، وفا اور امید قائم رہے—اللہ پاکستان اور اس کے عوام کے لیے خیر کے فیصلے فرمائے۔ آمین 🤲🇵🇰
A group of 21 former international cricket captains, including India’s Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar, made an official appeal to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, requesting ‘humane treatment and proper medical care for Imran Khan.’
The appeal from the captains’ community came after Khan’s court-mandated medical check-up was interfered with by the Pakistan government.
Read more ➡️ https://t.co/GOUEMBSKVY
📸: Reuters
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Twenty one former international captains from around the world have written another letter to Pakistan's prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, renewing their appeal for the medical treatment of former captain Imran Khan following recent developments that they say fall short of a Supreme Court directive https://t.co/NrehVY71ZC
عدالتوں کا احترام ہر شہری پر لازم ہے، لیکن قانون سب کے لیے برابر ہونا چاہیے۔ جعلی حکومت کے اقدامات پر سوال اٹھانا عوام کا حق ہے۔ #جعلی_حکومت_کی_توہین_عدالت