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My mother, @DrUzma_KhanPK and my aunts @Aleema_KhanPK and @Noreen_KhanPK have now spent 30 days in jail under Section 3 of Pakistan’s Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960 - a law rooted in colonial-era preventive detention practices.
We have challenged the legality of their detention from day one.
Now, even the original 30-day period has expired yet they remain imprisoned.
For an entire month, neither the families nor their lawyers have been allowed to meet them.
On what basis are they being held? Why are they being denied access to their families and legal counsel?
We demand their immediate release.
Today marks 30 days since my aunts, Dr Uzma Khan @DrUzma_KhanPK and Noreen Niazi @Noreen_KhanPK were taken from their homes and detained under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law.
Their 30-day detention period has now reached its expiry, yet we have received no further order from the Lahore High Court, nor any official communication from the Punjab Home Department or jail authorities explaining the legal basis for their continued detention or confirming their release.
On what legal grounds are they still being held? Why have they not been released?
For an entire month, they have been denied access to their families and legal counsel. Their only crime is standing by their brother, Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI and refusing to remain silent.
Thirty days of detention. No family access. No legal access. No justice.
#imrankhan
#خان_اور_فیملی_کو_رہا_کرو
Wali Khan retweeted
The sisters are being detained under Section 3 of the Punjab 1960 (MPO). The government has a legal power to order preventive detention, but that power is not unlimited.
The key point is that preventive detention is intended to prevent a demonstrable threat to public order, not to punish someone for their political association or to pre-empt lawful political dissent.
Wali Khan retweeted
Aleema Khan, Dr. Uzma Khan, and Noreen Niazi were kidnapped by the Asim Munir-imposed Punjab government, led by Maryam Nawaz, on September 20, 21 and have remained imprisoned under British Raj-style detention laws ever since. A state that resorts to kidnapping women to silence political dissent is displaying cowardice.
بنے ہیں اہلِ ہوس مدعی بھی منصف بھی
کسے وکیل کریں، کس سے منصفی چاہیں
"Those who hunger for power are now both accuser and judge.
Whom do we make our advocate? From whom do we seek justice?"
– Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Nisar Main Teri Galiyon Ke. Written from prison in the early 1950s.
What a farce. They keep treating the people as second class citizens. They have stopped even pretending that they care about the people. Why would they? It's not a regime elected by the people. It's a coloniser mindset: how dare the natives remove the VIP barriers. 10 years in prison based on arbitrary rules I just made up.
Time to get rid of the colonisers and finally be free & emancipated. Time for Munir, marium & the lot to go
Day 39.
My mother @DrUzma_KhanPK, has been held in Kot Lakhpat Jail since 21 September.
She has not been charged with any crime. She is detained under 3-MPO, a colonial era public-order law that lets a deputy commissioner jail a citizen for 30 days on a police recommendation, and then extend it.
Her first order expired on 20 October. The Punjab government has renewed it for another 30 days.
Her sisters @Aleema_KhanPK and @Noreen_KhanPK are held under the same law. Noreen was taken to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology without her family being told she was unwell or that she was being moved. No one has been allowed to see her.
Wali Khan retweeted
Pakistan: TV anchor Iqrarul Hassan, seized from his Lahore home at 3am, is jailed under the PECA cyber law over posts on governor's rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Branding dissent as cyberterrorism is how a military-run state silences the press. #HumanRights tribune.com.pk/story/2637368…
Wali Khan retweeted
Chaining an ICU door to prevent Imran Khan’s family members from going to check up on his 70-year-old sister @Noreen_KhanPK is a new low for General Asim Munir, his appointed Chief Minister in Punjab Maryam who oversees the administration and the Lahore High Court Chief Justice Aalia Neelum who looks on as this injustice takes place.
#AsimLaw
In December 2017, Pakistan allowed the mother and wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav – an Indian naval officer convicted of espionage and sentenced to death – to meet him at the Foreign Office in Islamabad. The government said it did so on humanitarian grounds.
Today my aunt, @Noreen_KhanPK, is in the Punjab Institute of Cardiology - shifted from Kot Lakhpat where she has been illegally detained. She has not been charged with any crime. No one has been allowed to see her – not her daughter, not any member of her family. Family members at the hospital say her ward is under police lockdown, with officers posted every few feet.
A convicted foreign spy was granted a family visit as a humanitarian gesture.
A Pakistani citizen in a cardiac ward, held without charge, is denied her own daughter.
Who ordered this, and on what authority? Where is the rule of law?
This is beyond ridiculous. Our uncle, cousin, mothers & aunts, along with thousands of Pakistanis are illegally incarcerated. we did not even know that @Noreen_KhanPK is in ill health or is being taken to hospital. No one informed us. Still no one from the family can meet her. Inhumane. What is her crime? Arrested under the colonial 3MPO law used by the colonisers to keep the natives in check. She MAY cause public unrest if she had been free. Orwellian.
P.s: She isn't under house arrest, she is illegally held at kot lakpat jail.
Wali Khan retweeted
اہم ترین 🚨
عظمیٰ خان کے شوہر اور نورین خان کی بیٹی ICU وارڈ کے باہر انتظار کر رہے ہیں لیکن فیملی کو نورین خان کے ساتھ ملنے نہیں دے رہے ہیں
I'm sure the women's right groups will be raising a big hue & cry about this atrocious & inhumane detention and complete lack of fundamental human rights to a 70+ year old woman who has not been charged with any actual crime. We all know why she is behind bars. Anytime now...
For the past few hours, we have been receiving deeply concerning reports circulating on social media that my aunt, @Noreen_KhanPK Noreen Niazi, has been admitted to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.
Our family was never informed.
We are now standing outside her ward trying to establish her medical condition. The ward door has been chained shut, with police preventing us, her own family, from entering or seeing her.
We are extremely concerned for her health and wellbeing.
My aunt has already endured more than a month in detention, isolated from her family. Now, even in hospital, we are being denied access to her.
What is her medical condition? Why was her family not informed? On whose orders are we being prevented from seeing her?
We demand immediate access to my aunt, a full medical update from her treating doctors, and assurances that she is receiving all necessary medical care.
@ImranKhanPTI
#ImranKhan
#FreeImranKhanAndFamily
Wali Khan retweeted
"We demand the release of @ImranKhanPTI , my mother @DrUzma_KhanPK & aunts. We reject the facist government & its sham courts"
@oxwali (Wali Khan, Dr. Uzma Khan’s son)
We demand the release of @ImranKhanPTI , my mother @DrUzma_KhanPK & aunts. We reject the facist government & its sham courts
Wali Khan retweeted
Pakistan's military-owned Margalla Heavy Industries has signed a $2.25 billion deal with an unnamed Chinese battery manufacturer and undisclosed local investors to build a lithium-ion battery plant in Rawalpindi. Even with the building ready and machines already installed, rollout is waiting on the federal cabinet to pass a state battery policy to lock in commercial protections. Battery manufacturing and green tech belong in the civilian sector, not behind opaque military contracts.
How can the military ever stay out of political engineering when it has multi-billion-dollar businesses at stake? Instead of focusing on national defense, it operates as a corporate syndicate that needs state power to pass favorable policies, protect its monopolies, and enrich itself at the expense of private enterprise.
Wali Khan retweeted
قاسم خان کی گفتگو 🚨
میرے والد کو جیل میں مکمل طور پر ختم کرنے کی کوشش کر رہے ہیں کیونکہ میرے والد کو ذہنی طور پر توڑنے میں ناکام ہو گئے ہیں
Below picture is the visit to Hammad Azhar. Compare to visit to @ImranKhanPTI....
curious
