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Sons of Pakistan's incarcerated erstwhile Prime Minister Imran Khan person accused the Shehbaz Sharif authorities of “deliberately” refusing visas to them, saying ideology successful the state is “hollow” and basal quality rights are being “crushed.”
Khan, 73, was arrested and jailed successful August 2023 successful aggregate cases and is presently lodged successful the Adiala Jail astatine Rawalpindi aft his condemnation successful 1 of them.
Suleman Khan and Kasim Khan, who presently unrecorded successful London, are Khan's sons from his archetypal matrimony with British TV property Jemima Goldsmith.
“My member and I are trying to question to Pakistan to spot our father. For 914 days, helium has been held successful solitary confinement portion his wellness deteriorates and helium is denied entree to autarkic aesculapian care.
“Now the authorities is deliberately refusing to process our visas. Denying a captive attraction is cruel. Denying his children the close to spot him is corporate punishment,” Mr. Kasim Khan said successful a station connected X connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026).
Imran Khan's household has claimed helium has been successful solitary confinement for the past respective months and his wellness information is not better.
On January 29, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar confirmed that Imran Khan underwent a aesculapian process for an oculus ailment astatine a infirmary a week earlier and presently is successful “good health.”
The improvement came a time aft the erstwhile Prime Minister's party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), claimed that its jailed laminitis was suffering from a superior oculus ailment that could origin imperishable harm to his eyesight if not treated promptly.
Mr. Kasim Khan reiterated that his begetter has present spent “over 900 days successful a decease compartment with nary household visits and nary entree to his idiosyncratic doctors,” and added successful his station connected X that credible reports corroborate helium has been diagnosed with cardinal retinal vein occlusion, a unsafe blockage that tin pb to imperishable imaginativeness nonaccomplishment if not treated done urgent aesculapian involution successful a due hospital.
“Yet authorities proceed to artifact his attraction and contradict him the doctors helium trusts. I americium adjacent denied the close to talk to him. This is not governance. This is authoritarian cruelty,” Mr. Kasim Khan said and called connected each defender of quality rights to enactment “before it is excessively late.”
“The satellite indispensable spot that successful Pakistan today, ideology is hollow and basal quality rights are being crushed. I telephone connected planetary quality rights organisations and governments to talk retired and enactment earlier irreversible harm is done,” helium said.
Before Minister Tarar's statement, the PTI had uploaded a station connected societal media with the rubric “Reaction connected Grave Health Emergency of Imran Khan and the Obstinacy of the Government and Adiala Jail Administration.”
“The PTI has learned done credible media reports that erstwhile premier curate Imran Khan has been diagnosed with CRVO (Central Retinal Vein Occlusion) successful his close eye, resulting successful a unsafe blockage successful the retinal vein.”
“According to aesculapian experts who reportedly checked him successful jail, this is an highly delicate and superior aesculapian information which, if not treated promptly and properly, carries a precocious hazard of imperishable harm to his eyesight,” it said.
