PTI challenges government claims about Imran Khan’s imprisonment
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- Pakistan’s information ministry said Imran Khan is imprisoned after judicial convictions and has access to visits, calls, reading materials and other amenities.
- PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja called the government’s account misleading and said court orders permitting family and lawyer meetings were not implemented.
- Raja also said nearly 300 cases had been filed against Khan and that contempt petitions had been submitted against Adiala jail officials.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders have rejected the government’s description of Imran Khan’s imprisonment, accusing authorities of failing to follow court orders on visits and legal access.
The dispute followed an interview with Khan’s sons that aired during the Lord’s Test. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information responded with a statement saying Khan was not held under executive detention. It said he had been imprisoned after multiple convictions through judicial proceedings and remained entitled to pursue legal remedies.
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The ministry said his imprisonment was governed by prison rules, judicial directions and security arrangements for a high-profile prisoner. It also rejected claims of punitive solitary confinement, cruelty or deprivation, saying visits, phone calls, reading materials and home-cooked meals were available. His accommodation, it said, included an exclusive seven-cell compound with sleeping, sanitation and exercise facilities.
The major grievance regarding Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi is that, for the last 15 months since March 2025, there has been a judgement of the Islamabad High Court that Imran and his wife be allowed to meet family members at least twice a week, but it is not being implemented.
PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja disputed that account at a Monday press conference. He said an Islamabad High Court order from March 2025 required Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to meet family members at least twice a week, but that the order had not been implemented. He also said lawyers were denied meetings, Khan’s sisters faced severe restrictions, and meetings with them stopped after October 2025 except for one visit by Dr Uzma in November.
Raja further said the Supreme Court’s order to transfer Khan to Shifa International Hospital was not implemented. He said nearly 300 cases had been filed against Khan and that contempt petitions targeted the Adiala jail administration. The competing accounts leave Khan’s access to family, lawyers and medical care at the centre of the dispute.
His accommodation includes an exclusive seven-cell compound with sleeping, sanitation and exercise facilities.
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Originally published by Dawn in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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