Important Message from Former Prime Minister Imran Khan from Adiala Jail - 22 July 2025
Note: This tweet is based on the tweet from July 24, 2025.
“Never in the history of Pakistan has any political leader been subjected to the treatment that I am currently enduring. Nawaz Sharif committed corruption worth billions and was nevertheless granted every possible comfort in prison. In contrast, never before has the innocent and apolitical spouse of a political figure been imprisoned under such inhumane conditions as those imposed upon Bushra Bibi.
I am enduring the harshest prison term in the country’s history solely for the supremacy of the Constitution and in service of my nation. The level of oppression and authoritarianism is such that even the water I have for ablution is filthy and contaminated with dirt, unfit for any human being. Books sent to me by my family have been withheld for months. Access to television and newspapers has also been suspended. I have spent countless hours re-reading the same old books, but now even those are no longer available.
All my basic human rights have been violated. Even the minimum facilities accorded to ordinary prisoners under the law and the jail manual are denied to me. Despite repeated requests, I have not been allowed to speak to my children. Political meetings have also been restricted; I am only permitted to meet certain ‘choice individuals’, while all other interactions are barred.
I am waging a battle against a 78-year-old system, and my greatest success is that despite unprecedented oppression, the public stands firmly with me.
On February 8th (2024), the people expressed their trust in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf by voting for you even in the absence of an electoral symbol. After such a clear mandate, it is the moral and political responsibility of every party member to become the voice of the people. It will be nothing short of disgraceful and condemnable if PTI leaders waste time on internal conflicts at this critical juncture. Anyone found engaging in factionalism within the party will be expelled. I am fighting for the future of our generations, and every sacrifice I make is for that cause. To create rifts within the party at this time would be a direct betrayal of my mission and vision.
The so-called government formed through Form 47 has crippled the judiciary through the 26th Constitutional Amendment. The way biased judges are now delivering blatantly unjust verdicts under these courts is visible to the entire nation. We must launch a robust campaign to liberate the judiciary, for no nation can survive, let alone progress, without judicial independence.”
قاسم خان انٹرنیشنل میڈیا پر 🚨
اس وقت میں زیادہ پریشان ہوں کیونکہ آخری بار جب ہماری اپنے والد سے بات ہوئی تھی تو وہ اپنی آنکھ کے علاج اور دیگر ��یدیوں کے ساتھ ہونے والے سلوک پر پریشان تھے۔
جیل میں حالات انتہائی خوفناک ہے، ہیپاٹائٹس کی وجہ سے جیل میں کئی اموات ہو چکی ہیں
Jemima Goldsmith, Imran Khan's former wife, has called on the British government to intervene over the former prime minister’s treatment in Pakistan, urging it to uphold his fundamental rights in accordance with directives issued by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
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میرے والدِ محترم، رہنما پاکستان تحریکِ انصاف و سابق صوبائی وزیر میاں محمود الرشید گزشتہ چار سال سے ظلم و جبر کا سامنا کرتے ہوئے جیل میں قید ہیں۔آج اچانک طبیعت ناساز ہونے پر انہیں جیل سے سروسز ہسپتال منتقل کیا گیا،جہاں پیٹ میں موجود رسولی کی سرجری کی گئی۔ افسوسناک امر یہ ہے کہ سرجری کے بعد آرام اور مناسب طبی نگہداشت کے بجائے انہیں فورا واپس جیل منتقل کر دیا گیا۔چار سال گزرنے کے باوجود ظلم و جبر بھی میاں محمود الرشید کے حوصلے کو نہیں توڑ سکا۔ ایک بیٹی کے لیے اپنے والد کو اس حالت میں جاننا انتہائی کربناک ہے۔ پوری قوم سے ان کی جلد اور مکمل صحتیابی کے لیے خصوصی دعاؤں کی اپیل ہے۔
"Imran Khan is a great cricketer and a former Prime Minister. We may not understand all the laws or technicalities, but strictly on humanitarian grounds, we demand his basic rights and proper medical care. We are asking for nothing more than that." — Kapil Dev
Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?
For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir, which according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health.
He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.
The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.
He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.
Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.
Yet those orders are being defied.
This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.
He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.
His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls.
I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father.
@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court; restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government to please now do the right thing.
کل ایک پی ٹی آئی کراچی کے MPA نے سلمان اکرام راجا کے سامنے فریاد کیا کہ ہمیں کوئی پوچھتا نہیں اور عمران خان رہائی تحریک کے ممبران کو عزت دی جاتی ہے تو بھائی صاحب فرق یہ ہے کہ آپ ایم پی اے ہوکر آج تک اسمبلی میں عمران خان کے لئے ایک لفظ نہیں بول سکے اور عمران خان رہائی تحریک کے ممبران درجنوں ایف آئی آر میں نامزد ہے اور رہائی کے لئے جدودجہد کررہے ہے اور احری دم تک کرینگے ۔
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گرفتاری سے قبل عمران خان کا قوم کے نام وہ تاریخی پیغام جو ہر پاکستانی کے دل کی آواز ہے!🚨
حقیقی آزادی: آزادی کبھی پلیٹ میں رکھ کر نہیں ملتی، زنجیریں خود نہیں گرتیں بلکہ انہیں توڑنا پڑت�� ہے!
جدو��ہد کا مقصد: یہ جنگ میری ذات کی نہیں، آپ کے بچوں کے مستقبل اور نسلوں کی بقا کی جنگ ہے۔
لا الہ الا اللہ کا نظریہ: کلمہ حق ہمیں انسانوں کی غلامی سے نجات دلا کر صرف ایک خدا کے سامنے جھکنا سکھاتا ہے۔
آخری حد تک پرامن جدوجہد: جب تک ووٹ کے ذریعے اپنی حکومت منتخب کرنے کا بنیادی حق نہیں مل جاتا، پرامن احتجاج جاری رکھیں۔
ملک کو کسی "قبضہ گروپ" کے رحم و کرم پر نہیں چھوڑا جا سکتا۔ اب نہیں تو کب؟