ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan raised voice at the international forum for a Pakistani citizen Ahmed Rabbani, detained in the Guantanamo Bay, an infamous detention camp of the American forces.
In his column published in The Washington Post newspaper on Friday, the PTI chairman said that Ahmed Rabbani was a resident of Karachi and taxi driver by profession. The Pakistan government did not raise its voice for ensuring justice to the victim, he said.
“We could not remain mum on this issued. It is our duty to ensure that Ahmed is kept healthy and alive until he is returned to his wife and son in Karachi,” he said. Finally, Ahmed lost patience four years ago and went on a hunger strike as a peaceful protest.
Under former US president Barack Obama, authorities force-fed the hunger strikers, pumping them full of supplements. Whatever the right and wrong of this, at least it has kept Ahmed alive. In his column, Imran said that the Trump administration enacted a new policy of not force-feeding hunger strikers.
Ahmed and other strikers would essentially be pushed as close to death as possible in order to try to force them to end the hunger strike, even if it means their organs fail or they die. Ahmed reports that the military are withholding medical care as well.
Imran called upon all moderate Americans to remember the small number of people languishing in the Guantanamo Bay and provide them justice.