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Pakistan authorities said connected Saturday (December 20, 2025) that determination is "no embargo" connected erstwhile premier curate Imran Khan's sons gathering their incarcerated begetter if they question to the country.
Pakistani authorities person reportedly imposed unannounced restrictions connected meetings with Imran Khan connected the grounds that the visitors usage specified meetings for governmental ends. Following the move, his household and enactment members person expressed concerns astir the conditions successful which helium is being kept wrong the prison.
"There has been nary embargo connected Suleman Khan and Kasim Khan to conscionable their father, Imran Khan, astatine Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi," Interior State Minister Talal Chaudhry told reporters successful Lahore.
Suleman and Kasim, who presently unrecorded successful London, are Imran Khan's sons from his archetypal matrimony with British TV property Jemima Goldsmith.
Mr. Chaudhry's connection comes days aft the brother-duo successful an interrogation with Sky News earlier this week said they fearfulness they mightiness ne'er spot their jailed begetter ever again.
The Khan brothers said they person not seen oregon spoken to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, who has been successful situation since August 2023, for months and that they were acrophobic astir his information and well-being.
"If Suleman and Kasim use for a Pakistani visa, we volition springiness them. We volition not halt them from gathering their father; therefore, the propaganda that the Pakistani authorities is creating hurdles successful the gathering betwixt begetter and sons should beryllium stopped," Mr. Chaudhry said.
He besides denied that Imran Khan is kept successful solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.
The PTI leader's sons successful the interrogation person claimed that their begetter is being kept successful isolation successful jail, saying these are “clear torture tactics”.
Imran Khan, who has been successful jailhouse since August 2023, faces aggregate cases launched against him since his ouster from powerfulness successful April 2022.
A United Nations peculiar rapporteur has besides warned that helium is being held successful conditions that could magnitude to inhuman oregon degrading treatment.
In the interrogation with Sky News, Kasim claimed his begetter was being held successful a compartment that was six feet by 8 inches, hardly capable to stand. "They are not adjacent allowing guards to talk to him due to the fact that they privation full isolation from immoderate different person, conscionable to effort and interruption him. So it’s each precise wide torture tactics,” helium said.
