I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves: Pat Cummins

Australia captain Pat Cummins has voiced his support for the former Pakistan captain, Imran Khan. Imran has been incarcerated in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail since August 2023. Pakistan's Supreme Court, headed by Justice Shahid Waheed, recently ordered the government to take Imran for treatment at Shifa International Hospital. 

However, the government took him to the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad for just a few hours and brought him back to prison.

Cummins extended support to Imran while reacting to a video featuring former Australia captain Greg Chappell, shared by The Grade Cricketer, an Australian digital media brand run by the duo of Sam Perry and Ian Higgins.

"Adding my support here to GC [The Grade Cricketer] and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves," Cummins posted on X.

Chappell expressed his concern for Imran, who he claimed has lost most of his sight in his right eye and continues to struggle with his health in isolated conditions.

"He's been in isolation for three years," said Chappell in an episode of The Grade Cricketer. "I don't know how anyone deals with that. Imran is as strong physically and mentally as anyone that I played cricket against, but I don't know how you deal with absolute isolation for three years.

"I don't think he's allowed books to read. He's pretty much just got to sit there and behave himself. He's in the dark most of the time, so that's not good for your mental health.

"As your mental health deteriorates, your physical health is going to deteriorate. I met up with him in Pakistan six years ago, and he was still a strong, robust, older man. That's not the case anymore.

"The sight in his right eye, apparently, he's struggling. I went back to our former captains. We had 14 that wrote the first letter.

"We've got 23 Kepler vessels from South Africa, obviously, and Michael Gatting and two others that supported this latest letter. It's really about just keeping it in people's minds. This is not a political thing from my point of view or from our point of view.

"This is about human rights. Nobody should be kept in those conditions," he added.