Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is reportedly in good well being and has met his sister, Dr Uzma Khanum, in accordance with Daybreak Information on Tuesday night. The assembly comes after weeks of hypothesis about Khan’s situation, intensified by stories that his household had been barred from visiting him for a number of weeks.
The unrest surrounding Khan’s well being adopted protests by his supporters in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, which prompted authorities to impose restrictions on giant gatherings. Regardless of these measures, PTI followers continued to agitate exterior the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom earlier within the day.
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”الحمدللّٰہ عمران خان کی صحت بالکل ٹھیک ہے۔ مگر اُنہیں مکمل آئسولیشن میں رکھ کر ذہنی طور پر اذیت دی جارہی ہے، سیل سے باہر نکلنے اور نہ ہی کسی سے بات کرنے کی اجازت ہے۔“
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Considerations about Khan’s well-being escalated final month when three of his sisters, Noreen Niazi, Aleema Khan, and Uzma Khan, claimed they had been assaulted whereas trying to satisfy him. His sons additionally raised alarms, suggesting that jail authorities had been concealing “one thing irreversible” about their father’s situation. One son, Kasim Khan, advised Reuters that there had been no verifiable contact regardless of a courtroom order mandating weekly visits. The household additionally reported that Khan’s private physician had been denied entry.
Previous to Tuesday’s assembly, neither Khan’s household nor members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had seen him for over 25 days, fuelling rumours that the previous Prime Minister could have died, with hypothesis suggesting authorities had been trying a cover-up as a consequence of his reputation. Strain intensified on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s authorities, with PTI Senator Khurram Zeeshan claiming that Khan was being stored in isolation as a method to coerce him into leaving Pakistan. Zeeshan alleged that the federal government felt threatened by Khan’s widespread assist and subsequently prevented sharing proof of life.
Khan, a 72-year-old World Cup-winning cricketer turned politician, has been imprisoned since August 2023. Rumours of his loss of life circulated on social media accounts from Afghanistan, the place tensions over a border dispute with Pakistan stay excessive.
On Tuesday, Uzma Khan was lastly allowed to satisfy her brother in Adiala Jail, as PTI members had threatened mass protests regardless of restrictions in Rawalpindi. Talking to reporters after the go to, she confirmed that Khan was being stored in solitary confinement and subjected to psychological strain however was in any other case in good well being. “Imran Khan is okay, his well being is nice. He has been stored in solitary confinement, he’s being tortured mentally,” she mentioned, placing an finish to circulating loss of life rumours.
Earlier stories urged that the jail authorities had granted the assembly underneath strict situations, however Uzma clarified, “No situations had been imposed. We don’t go by situations.” She described the aid of lastly being allowed to satisfy her brother amid a closely guarded jail complicated.
The weeks previous the assembly had been marked by heightened tensions round Adiala Jail, with greater than 700 safety personnel deployed, further checkpoints arrange, and protests by Khan’s sisters and PTI staff. Final week, his sisters alleged that they had been manhandled and briefly detained by police whereas staging demonstrations.
The Adiala Jail administration and authorities have constantly maintained that Khan is in good well being and receiving full medical consideration. “There is no such thing as a fact to stories about his switch from Adiala Jail. He’s totally wholesome,” the administration acknowledged.
The assembly comes as a serious aid for supporters of the previous Prime Minister and places to relaxation weeks of hypothesis concerning his situation, although the political rigidity surrounding his imprisonment continues to simmer.