Former Cricket Captains Urge Pakistan for ‘Humane Treatment, Proper Medical Care’ for Imran Khan
The appeal says the court-directed medical board was not allowed to finish its assessment and that weekly family visits should be honored.
- On Sunday, 21 former international cricket captains led by Greg Chappell wrote to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, urging "humane treatment and proper medical care" for Imran Khan, who has spent over three years in custody.
- Six months after 14 former captains first appealed, the group wrote again following reports that Khan was returned to Adiala Jail after a brief hospital stay, bypassing a court-ordered independent medical assessment.
- While the Court directed a medical board including Khan's personal physicians to examine him, a state-appointed team declared him "medically fit" after just a few hours, then returned him to Adiala Jail before that board could complete its work.
- The signatories requested that an independent medical board complete a full assessment of Khan's health, particularly his reported vision loss, and that weekly family visits reinstated by the Court be honored without interruption.
- Emphasizing they do not presume to adjudicate Pakistan's domestic legal processes, the group argued that ensuring a court-ordered medical process is completed is a matter of basic decency every cricketing nation would recognize as fair.
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‘Imran Khan is 73 years old…’: Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar among 21 former captains in renewed appeal to Pakistan government
Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar are the three Indian captains who have joined 18 others in a renewed appeal to the Pakistan government to provide Imran Khan the medical attention he needs.
The letter was signed by Michael Atherton, Alex Blackwell, Allan Border, Michael Brearley, Greg Chappell, Ian Chappell, Belinda Clark, Alastair Cook, Michael Gatting, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Lee Germon, Adam Gilchrist, David Gower, Kim Hughes, Nasser Hussain, Clive Lloyd, Arjuna Ranatunga, Andrew Strauss, Dilip Vengsarkar, Steve Waugh and John Wright.
Former cricketers have expressed concern about the treatment of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar, along with 22 former cricket captains from around the world, have made demands to the Pakistani government regarding Imran Khan.
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