Arooj Kazmi

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

These are not just any criminals. These are the people in charge of Pakistan.

This is how they’ve abducted my family members. Masked, armed men dragging innocents from their houses and taking them to unknown locations.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

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.

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

For three years, Pakistan’s authorities have systematically denied Imran Khan the right to a fair trial, subjected him to prolonged solitary confinement, and limited his access to medical care and visitation rights.

He has not been allowed to meet his family for more than eight months and his vision has reportedly deteriorated significantly. Both he and his wife, Bushra Bibi Khan, have now been denied regular access to legal counsel since December 2025.

Amnesty International urges the Pakistani authorities to unconditionally restore Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi Khan’s right to see their family and lawyers. Both must be given access to adequate medical care and their solitary confinement, which is unlawful, should end immediately.

Ahead of planned gatherings by Imran Khan’s family, party and supporters to mark the anniversary, the authorities must facilitate the right to peaceful protest and ensure there is no repeat of the unlawful and arbitrary crackdowns on protesters so frequently witnessed in the country and against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

[Kasim Khan @Kasim_Khan_1999]

It has now been around 1,100 days since my father, Imran Khan, was imprisoned, and my brother and I haven’t heard his voice since March. For months, we’ve been denied contact with him. We remain in the dark about his access to healthcare as his eyesight continues to deteriorate. He urgently needs medical attention, and with no family or legal access, we don’t even get any second hand information or reassurance.

I’ve found myself especially missing him recently. I want to speak to him about mundane things like my cricket, books I’ve been reading and what new movies are good. I understand the people of Pakistan want their chosen leader free, but I miss my father more than ever.

But this is not just about a father. It is about Pakistan, and its future. A rigged, authoritarian regime continues to crush political opposition, undermine democratic institutions, and deny millions of Pakistanis their right to freely choose their leaders, whilst terrorising those who speak their beliefs.

I once again plea to the international community to not look away. Silence in the face of injustice only enables it.

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi remain illegally imprisoned and are being subjected to systematic psychological and physical torture through unlawful isolation.
For the past seven months, Imran Khan has been kept in solitary confinement. He has been denied access to his family, his personal doctors, and even basic human rights including books, which he has not been allowed for the last five months.

At this moment, our primary demand is clear: Imran Khan must immediately be shifted to Shifa International Hospital for comprehensive medical examinations and proper treatment for his eye condition.

Today, the 12th of May, CM Sohail Afridi, along with the entire KP Assembly, members of the Punjab Assembly, members of the National Assembly, and Senators from PTI, will come to Adiala Jail to stand in solidarity with their leader, Imran Khan.

Their presence will highlight the issue both nationally and internationally, the ongoing mistreatment and psychological torture being inflicted upon Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi. It is also intended to build pressure on this government (a government brought into power through stolen mandate from Imran Khan) to immediately transfer him to Shifa International Hospital without any further delay.

Our family once again strongly urges Imran Khan’s supporters NOT to come to Adiala Jail today. Police will not arrest elected representatives and Senators, but the supporters remain at serious risk of arrest and mistreatment.

[Faisal Khan @KaliwalYam]

کیا آپ کو پتہ ہے حسن جہانگیر نے 1982 میں اپنی زندگی کا پہلا گانا عمران خان کے لئے گایا تھا اور عمران خان سامنے بیٹھیں تھے ❤️

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

#EndUnlawfulDetentionOfKhan

Tuesday is a family and lawyers meeting day with Imran Khan. This is his right under the jail manual, reinforced by a full bench High Court order permitting us to meet our brother.

For over a year, we have traveled to Adiala Jail every Tuesday, only to be stopped by Punjab Police before reaching the gate. Officers have openly stated that court orders hold no value for them. On rare occasions, after prolonged protest and mounting pressure, one or two of us sisters have been allowed inside. In the past five months, our sister Dr. Uzma Khan has been permitted to meet him only three times, once each in October, November, and December 2025.

Every Tuesday, we continue to wait outside Adiala Jail in protest, demanding that this government respect his legal and constitutional right to meet his family and lawyers. We are there not only to assert his rights, but to stand in solidarity, so he knows we are present, and that he is not alone.

[Waqas @worqas]

There is a possibility that Imran Khan is being given low doses of a blood clotting agent over long periods of time.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Pakistan's Imran Khan's unjust imprisonment is not because of any plausible evidence of corruption or criminality.

Its a politically motivated vendetta.

It stems from a personal grudge held by Pakistan's current Army Chief General Asim Munir, there is bad blood between him and Khan, not because of what Khan did wrong, but because of what he tried to do right.

Imran Khan was Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022. In October 2018 he approved the appointment of Lieutenant General Asim Munir as head of the powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency (also known as ISI) but after only about eight months in June 2019 Khan removed him from that powerful post and shifted him to command a corps in Gujranwala.

The military gave no public reason for the sudden change at the time.
Khan has always denied that the decision had anything to do with corruption allegations involving his wife Bushra Bibi. He called such claims completely false, meanwhile some orders have told me that Khan had serious concerns over the Genral "working eigh foriegn services" remember, it was Imran Khan who exposed the massive CIA influence in Pakistan, and called out its operators.

Khan was removed as Prime Minister in April 2022 through a no confidence vote in parliament. He called it an imported regime change backed by hidden forces. Soon after that, (unsurprisingly), Asim Munir was appointed Chief of Army Staff in November 2022.

Khan was then, again unsurprisingly arrested in May 2023 and has been in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi since August 2023. He faces a long list of cases. These including obviously manufactured or flawed accusations that he illegally sold or kept expensive state gifts received as Prime Minister the Toshakhana references.

There is also the cypher case about a secret diplomatic document. Plus charges linked to the violent protests by his supporters on 9 May 2023 when military installations were attacked. Several other graft marriage validity and terrorism related cases were filed too. It all seems like a complex Web of Lawfare and supposition.

Some of the convictions against him have been suspended or overturned on appeal but fresh sentences and pending trials have kept him locked up. As of today, 17th of April 2026, he remains in jail serving time on various "corruption" convictions.

Khan and his party insist all these cases are fake and politically motivated. They point directly at General Asim Munir as the person behind what they describe as selective prosecution and pressure on the courts. Khan has repeatedly said Munir is acting out of personal revenge for being removed as ISI chief years earlier. He has even claimed that Munir is extending this vendetta to harsh treatment of his wife Bushra Bibi who has also spent time in prison on related charges.

Meanwhile, the international community is silent on the detention of a man who would, if polls are believed, sweep into power in a free and fair election in Pakistan.

Ask yourself 2 questions, if Khan was a pro western leader, who hadn't challenged foreign influence and corruption in Pakistan, would he be imprisoned today?

And finally, why is the dubious imprisonment of a globally recognised political leader essentially absent from western headlines?

You decide.

[Aleema Khanum @Aleema_KhanPK]

Imran Khan has been kept in solitary confinement for six months under brutal conditions, while Bushra Bibi is being held the same way. Their freedom is being deliberately blocked by the Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court, who refuses to fix their bail hearings.

Imran Khan has made it clear that the judiciary is no longer independent, it is acting like a tool of the government. Judges assigned to his cases are not delivering justice; they are ensuring hearings never happen. The reality is simple: the moment this case is heard, its weak and baseless nature will be exposed, and bail will become unavoidable. That is exactly why it is being stalled. Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi continued imprisonment is due to Judge Dogar, who is openly facilitating a government that came to power by stealing Imran Khan’s mandate.

Through Salman Safdar, Imran Khan has sent a message, his wife is being pushed to the edge by prolonged isolation. He has said he can endure this ظلم himself, but she is being broken to force him into submission. The pressure is deliberate, calculated, and inhumane. He said clearly “no deal, no surrender! It is liberty or death.”

[Bilal Ansar Khan @BilalAnsarKhan1]

A reminder that Pakistan's rightful Prime Minister has lost 80% of his vision in one eye due to an underlying problem that he's not getting adequate treatment for and he's been imprisoned 35 kilometers away from the Serena hotel where the illegal regime is hosting the talks.

[Kasim Khan @KasimKhanUK]

We strongly appeal to the United Nations and other international human rights organizations to take notice of the injustice being done to our father and to raise their voice for justice. @hrw @UNHumanRights

[PTI USA Official @PTIOfficialUSA]

🚨 HEALTH EMERGENCY 🚨

978 days of arbitrary detention. Imran Khan remains in 24-hour torturous solitary confinement and urgently needs immediate medical care. Barrister Sardar confirmed his condition after a recent meeting.

This regime presents a false image abroad while enforcing repression at home, having stolen the mandate and deepening abuse of power.

This cannot continue. It is a shared responsibility to speak out and confront this injustice.

@UNHumanRights @hrw @amnestysasia

#ReleaseImranKhan
#FreeTheVoiceOfPakistan

[The Telegraph @ttindia]

Imran Khan accuses Pakistan judges of 'selling their souls for personal privileges'

https://t.co/zie139UPcL

[Imran Khan @ImranKhanPTI]

“The judges in this country should be ashamed of themselves. Time and time again we have gone to the judiciary. But they have sold their souls for their paid personal privileges. They have sold their integrity. They know they cannot break me, so they turn to my wife. How they can allow this inhumane treatment to Bushra BiBi, simply to blackmail me. She spends 24 hours a day in isolation, except for 30 minutes with me per week - and even that is often ignored. It is unislamic to harm women, children and the elderly - and their motives are plain and clear. The judges are responsible for the justice in a society. They should be ashamed of themselves.”

Illegally Incarcerated Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speaking to his sons on phone from Adiala Jail - (March 21, 2026)

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

My sons Sulaiman & @kasim_khan_1999 applied for visas in January (again… ) to allow them to visit their father @ImranKhanPTI in Pakistan. The Pakistan consulate states that online visa processing normally takes 7–10 working days. It has now been 60 days. This despite the public promise that they could safely travel there to see their father after 4 years, made by both Defence Minister @khawajaMAsif to @mehdirhasan & PM spokesperson @mosharrafzaidi to @SkyYaldaHakim
Meanwhile, they are not allowed to speak to him on the phone, nor send him a letter. They haven’t seen him since 2022 after he was shot in an assassination attempt.
This is an appeal directly to Pakisan’s PM @CMShehbaz to please allow Imran Khan’s two sons to see their father asap, particularly since, by all accounts, his health is in decline.

[PTI @PTIofficial]

ملک میں عوام دشمن عناصر کارروائیاں عروج پر ہیں کیونکہ حکومتی ترجیحات نوجوانوں کو سیاسی انتقام کا نشانہ بنانا ہے۔

ابتسام حسن کو مسجد سے نکلتے ہوئے گرفتار کرکے غیر قانونی حراست میں رکھا گیا۔ رہائی کے بعد بھی وہ اپنے دیگر پاکستانی بھائیوں کی طرح عمران خان کے نظریے پر ڈٹے ہوئے ہیں اور ان کی جان بچانے کو اعزاز سمجھتے ہیں۔

قوم اپنے بہادر بیٹے ابتسام حسن کو سلام پیش کرتی ہے۔

#FascismUnderAsimLaw

[DrJalil @drjalil247]

Grave violation of human rights and Geneva convention by Pakistani establishment by not letting the family see @ImranKhanPTI and no access to personal physicians.

[PTI @PTIofficial]

🚨 MEDICAL ALERT: Imran Khan’s health is in critical condition at Adiala Jail. Only 15% vision remaining in his right eye. 2+ years of solitary confinement, denied personal physicians, zero dental care, repeated food poisoning. This is systematic neglect.

#FreeImranKhan
#ImranKhanNotSafeInAdiala

[Kasim Khan @KasimKhanUK]

Imran Khan is saying, “I am unable to see from my eye, and I should be given immediate access to my personal doctors,” said Aleema Khan.

I appeal to human rights organizations to raise their voice for Imran Khan’s health.
@hrw @UNHumanRights