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‘No embargo’ on Imran Khan’s sons meeting him in jail, says Pakistan

admin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:28:00 +0000

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. File
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Pakistan government said on Saturday (December 20, 2025) that there is “no embargo” on former prime minister Imran Khan’s sons meeting their incarcerated father if they travel to the country.

Pakistani authorities have reportedly imposed unannounced restrictions on meetings with Imran Khan on the grounds that the visitors use such meetings for political ends. Following the move, his family and party members have expressed concerns about the conditions in which he is being kept inside the prison.

“There has been no embargo on Suleman Khan and Kasim Khan to meet their father, Imran Khan, at Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi,” Interior State Minister Talal Chaudhry told reporters in Lahore.

Suleman and Kasim, who currently live in London, are Imran Khan’s sons from his first marriage with British TV personality Jemima Goldsmith.

Mr. Chaudhry’s statement comes days after the brother-duo in an interview with Sky News earlier this week said they fear they might never see their jailed father ever again.

The Khan brothers said they have not seen or spoken to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, who has been in prison since August 2023, for months and that they were concerned about his safety and well-being.

“If Suleman and Kasim apply for a Pakistani visa, we will give them. We will not stop them from meeting their father; therefore, the propaganda that the Pakistani government is creating hurdles in the meeting between father and sons should be stopped,” Mr. Chaudhry said.

He also denied that Imran Khan is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.

The PTI leader’s sons in the interview have claimed that their father is being kept in isolation in jail, saying these are “clear torture tactics”.

Imran Khan, who has been in jail since August 2023, faces multiple cases launched against him since his ouster from power in April 2022.

A United Nations special rapporteur has also warned that he is being held in conditions that could amount to inhuman or degrading treatment.

In the interview with Sky News, Kasim claimed his father was being held in a cell that was six feet by eight inches, barely enough to stand. “They are not even allowing guards to speak to him because they want total isolation from any other person, just to try and break him. So it’s all very clear torture tactics,” he said.

Published – December 20, 2025 07:58 pm IST

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Imran Khan, wife acquitted in marriage case paving way for possible release

admin — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:22:22 +0000

Chairman of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party Gohar Khan, centre, celebrates with party supporters, after a court overturned the conviction and seven-year prison sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in Islamabad, Pakistan, on July 13, 2024.
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A Pakistani court on July 13 overturned the conviction and seven-year prison sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in the case of the couple’s alleged 2018 unlawful marriage case, removing the last known hurdle in the way of his release nearly a year after he was jailed, lawyers said.

Naeem Panjutha, one of Mr. Khan’s lawyers, said the court announced the verdict in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the former Premier is being held.

The acquittal comes two weeks after another appeals court upheld the February 5 conviction and sentence of Mr. Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi.

The court in its brief order said if the couple is not wanted in any other case, they should be released.

Ms. Bibi is Mr. Khan’s third wife and a spiritual healer. She was previously married to a man who claimed that they divorced in November 2017, less than three months before she married Mr. Khan. Islamic law, as upheld by Pakistan, requires a three-month waiting period before a new marriage.

Ms. Bibi has said they divorced in August 2017 and the couple insisted during the trial that they did not violate the waiting period.

It was unclear how the government would respond to the court order. Authorities have registered multiple cases against Mr. Khan since 2022 when he was ousted from power through a vote of no-confidence in the Parliament.

The latest development came a day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled that the party of Mr. Khan was improperly denied at least 20 seats in parliament, in a significant blow to the country’s fragile governing coalition.

Mr. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was previously excluded from a system that gives parties extra seats reserved for women and minorities in the National Assembly, or lower house of the Parliament. Though the verdict was a major political win for Mr. Khan, it would not put his party in a position to oust the government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who came into power following a February 8 election that Mr. Khan allies say was rigged.

Mr. Khan has been embroiled in more than 150 legal cases, including inciting violence, since his arrest in May 2023. During nationwide riots that followed that, Mr. Khan’s supporters attacked the military and government buildings in various parts of the country and torched a building housing state-run Radio Pakistan in the northwest.

The violence subsided only when Mr. Khan was released by the Supreme Court. Mr. Khan was again arrested in early August 2023 after a court handed him a three-year jail sentence for corruption.

Since then, Mr. Khan has been given bail by different courts in all the cases in which he has been convicted.

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Tokshakhana corruption case | Pak court suspends 14-year jail term of Imran Khan and his wife

admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:20:29 +0000

A file photo of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi.
| Photo Credit: AP

A Pakistani High Court on April 1 suspended the 14-year sentence given to former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Toshakhana corruption case.

The two were sentenced in the case by an Islamabad accountability court on January 31, days before the general elections.

On April 1, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended their sentence in the Toshakhana case.

IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq said appeal against the punishment would be fixed for hearing after Eid holidays.

In the Toshakhana corruption case, the 71-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician is accused of retaining expensive state gifts they received during his tenure as Pakistan’s premier.

Under the rules governing Toshakhana — a Persian word meaning “treasure house” — government officials can keep gifts by paying a price for them but first the gift should be deposited. Khan and his wife either failed to deposit the gift or got it for a low price by allegedly using their authority.

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