{"id":29655,"date":"2025-12-01T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29655"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:04:01","slug":"imran-khans-children-worry-about-former-pms-well-being-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29655","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan\u2019s children worry about former PM\u2019s well-being in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The sons of Pakistan\u2019s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan have expressed deep concern that authorities may be hiding \u201csomething irreversible\u201d about his condition after more than three weeks with no verifiable evidence that he is still alive.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Reuters, Imran\u2019s son Kasim Khan said the family has had no direct or verifiable contact with him, despite a court order mandating weekly prison visits. \u201cNot knowing whether your father is safe, injured or even alive is a form of psychological torture,\u201d he said. \u201cToday, we have no verifiable information at all about his condition. Our greatest fear is that something irreversible is being hidden from us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Officials assuage fears over Imran\u2019s health<\/p>\n<p>The family has repeatedly sought access for Imran\u2019s personal physician, who has been barred from examining him for over a year, Kasim added. Pakistan\u2019s Interior Ministry did not respond to requests for comment. A jail official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Imran was in good health and that he was unaware of any plans to move him to a higher-security facility.<\/p>\n<p>Imran, 72, has been in prison since August 2023, convicted in multiple cases he claims were politically motivated following his removal from office in a 2022 parliamentary vote. His first conviction, known as the Toshakhana case, involved accusations of unlawfully selling gifts received in office. Subsequent verdicts added lengthy sentences, including 10 years for leaking a diplomatic cable and 14 years in a graft case related to the Al-Qadir Trust, a charity project prosecutors say involved improper land deals.<\/p>\n<p>Imran\u2019s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has maintained that the prosecutions are aimed at excluding him from public life and elections.<\/p>\n<p>Family anxiety deepens amid lack of information<\/p>\n<p>The family says the lack of communication has intensified fears of a deliberate attempt to push Imran\u00a0out of public sight. Television channels have reportedly been instructed not to show Imran\u2019s name or image, leaving only a single grainy court photograph online since his imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isolation is intentional,\u201d Kasim said. \u201cThey are scared of him. He is Pakistan\u2019s most popular leader, and they know they cannot defeat him democratically.\u201d Kasim and his older brother, Suleiman Isa Khan, who live in London with their mother, Jemima Goldsmith, have largely remained removed from Pakistan\u2019s dynastic politics.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: PTI to stage protest outside Adiala Jail<\/p>\n<p>Kasim recalled the last time he saw his father in November 2022 after an assassination attempt. \u201cThat image has stayed with me ever since. Seeing our father in that state is something you don\u2019t forget,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further added, \u201cWe were told he would recover with time. Now, after weeks of total silence and no proof of life, that memory carries a different weight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The family is pursuing domestic and international avenues, including appeals to human rights organisations, and is demanding that court-ordered visits be restored immediately. \u201cThis is not just a political dispute,\u201d Kasim said. \u201cIt is a human rights emergency. Pressure must come from every direction. We draw strength from him, but we need to know he is safe\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sons of Pakistan\u2019s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan have expressed deep concern that authorities may be hiding \u201csomething irreversible\u201d about his condition after more than three weeks with no verifiable evidence that he is still alive. Speaking to Reuters, Imran\u2019s son Kasim Khan said the family has had no direct or verifiable contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}