Imran Khan's sisters arrested and detained and security forces seizing ministers in broad daylight.
The arrests come a week before a planned protest march by Khan’s PTI party.
Pakistan's Interior Minister said the government would do everything it could to stop the march.
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.”
Look closely at this door.
The footprints from their boots are still there.
Last night, police personnel repeatedly kicked at my aunt Uzma Khan’s (@DrUzma_KhanPK) bedroom door until it gave way.
@Noreen_KhanPK
Imran Khan's son has told Sky's chief presenter @MarkAustinTV that his family members have been arrested ahead of a protest march.
Former Pakistani prime minister Mr Khan has been imprisoned for more than three years.
Read more: https://t.co/lYzKrXa292
There is little choice left for the people of Pakistan.
Either remain silent while their chosen leader is imprisoned. Whilst his family is detained, his party is suppressed and justice is denied - or come out peacefully and exercise their fundamental right to protest.
You can arrest families and threaten people with violence. But you cannot imprison 250 million Pakistanis or crush the will of a generation.
No regime is more powerful than its people. The world must watch as the people of Pakistan come together to demonstrate their plea for justice, even in the face of threats of violence.
Inshallah, Pakistan’s future will be decided by its people, not by criminals who rule through fear.
And it get’s worse.
My cousin Shahrez’s 2 children of 4 and 6 years old are now missing.
There is no limit to their cruelty. Complete disregard for humanity.
Today, my aunt, Aleema Khan, has been abducted by police in Lahore. Our family has been told nothing about where she has been taken. Her family and lawyers cannot reach her.
This is the behaviour of a fascist government - abducting people, terrorising families and trampling human rights, due process and the rule of law while pretending to stand for democracy.
First they imprisoned my father. Now they are coming after his family.
We demand immediate access to her for her family and lawyers, full disclosure of where she is being held, and her immediate release.
The world cannot keep looking away from what is happening in Pakistan.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan in conversation at Adiala Jail - 24 July 2025
Note: This is a repost of the tweet from 24th July 2025
“We have knocked on every door, but no one has listened. I had asked for dialogue only once, and that too was conditional upon commissions to investigate the events of November 26th (2024) and May 9th (2023) being formed. It was Asim Munir who ordered the shooting of unarmed civilians on November 26th. I reiterate there is no longer any room for dialogue because this group has completely hijacked the entire system.
I have instructed Barrister Gohar, Salman Akram Raja, Ali Amin Gandapur, and Junaid Akbar to ensure the protest movement runs with full force. The objective of this movement must be the restoration of justice, the supremacy of law, and the protection of the Constitution. If we fail to raise our voices in the streets, this group of oppressors will gradually finish off our parliamentary party as well. I am standing firm; all of you must also stand firm.
Eighty percent of the people of Pakistan stand with me and we are entitled to fight for our rights. I am aware that 90% of the electoral fraud took place between polling and the compilation of results. I campaigned for the implementation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for two years. If EVMs had been used on February 8th (2024), the game would have ended there and then. I still say today: if transparent elections are desired, EVMs must be introduced, and rigging will end once and for all.”
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.
Today, I had the honour of speaking to the 47 countries that comprise the @UN#HumanRightsCouncil urging the immediate release of my father @imrankhanpti and all #Pakistan’s #politicalprisoners. Along with this, I want to be very clear. Like my father, I fully support maintaining GSP+ as the people of #Pakistan should never be punished for the actions of its leaders. But the Pakistani regime must also fully comply with the 27 treaties it committed to follow to obtain this benefit, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Convention Against Torture. @UN@ptiofficial #HumanRights #ImranKhanUnlawfullyDetained
Jemima Goldsmith, the ex-wife of jailed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan, on Monday made a direct appeal to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to allow their sons, Kasim Khan and Sulaiman Khan, to visit their father in prison.
For more: https://t.co/M3J5LjaOfR
#etribune #News #latest
کل جمائمہ خان نے @X کے بارے میں یہ انکشاف پوسٹ کیا کہ جو بھی “high impact PTI voice” ہوتی ہے اس پر X “visibility filter” یعنی کہ شیڈو بین کر دیتا ہے۔ نیچے ان کا گروک سے ڈسکشن کا سکین شاٹ دیکھیے۔
کہنا صرف یہ تھا کہ ہزاروں سوشل میڈیا اکاؤنٹس خاموش کروا کر، سینکڑوں کو ہابریڈ بنا کر اور X کی مدد سے بڑے اکاؤنٹس کو شیڈو بین کروا کر بھی ہار رہیں ہے وہ۔
کچھ تو بات ہے سوشل میڈیا والوں میں!! سچ اپنا راستہ نکال ہی لیتا ہے۔ روز نئے ہیروز ابھرتے ہیں سوشل میڈیا پر۔ تمام ٹائیگرز اور ٹائیگریسز کو سلام ہے کہ آپ نےکبھی ہار نہیں مانی اور اپنے سے کئی گنا طاقتور حریف کو روز شکست دیتے ہی��۔
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.
سہیل آفریدی کی مکمل تقریر دیکھ کر #وادی_تیراہ کی ساری حقیقت جانیے! کس طرح عاصم منیر اور ان کی ٹیم عمران خان اور سہیل آفریدی کی مقبولیت ختم کرنا چاہتے تھے مگر جب سہیل وہاں گئے تو کس طرح عوام نے ان کو پیار دیا اور پلان ناکام بنایا۔ یہ تقریر نہیں دیکھی تو کچھ نہیں دیکھا! بہت سارے سچ ہیں اس میں۔
“To strive for justice is a sacred duty, and I am ready to lay down my life for Haqeeqi Azadi (true freedom) of my nation.
At this moment, Pakistan is being governed solely under “Asim Law”. Here, verdicts are pre-written and merely announced aloud. Like the baseless decisions and sentences of the past three years, the Toshakhana 2 verdict is nothing new for me. This ruling, too, was delivered in haste, without any evidence and without fulfilling legal requirements. Neither we nor our lawyers were even given opportunity to present our case.
The sustained solitary confinement imposed on me and my wife constitutes severe mental torture. We are barred from books, television, and meetings. Although television access is granted to every other prisoner, even this fundamental facility has been withheld from me and Bushra Bibi. The books sent by my family are confiscated by jail authorities, and we are kept in solitary confinement for weeks at a time. This treatment is inhumane, yet all this oppression and brutality cannot weaken my resolve.
It is not our tradition to target women and children. Our religion mandates mercy toward women even during warfare, yet here they are being persecuted purely out of political vendetta. I am deeply saddened and distressed by the mistreatment and brutality faced by my sisters and other women outside Adiala Jail. The treatment meted out to Bushra Bibi, Dr. Yasmin, Mahrang Baloch, and other women stands in clear violation of Islamic traditions and moral values. Bushra Bibi, my wife, has been subjected to solitary confinement purely because of personal hostility towards me, even though she has no political role and is a homemaker.
The army is mine and belongs to the people of Pakistan. When I criticize Asim Munir, it is criticism of an individual, just as past dictators were criticized. Asim Munir did not come into power through a public referendum or popular vote. Whatever is happening to me in jail is being carried out on the instructions of a colonel acting under Asim Munir’s orders.
The rule of law in Pakistan has been severely undermined. Just as in 2007, PCO judges who sided with a dictator and tarnished the sanctity of the judiciary earned no respect, while those who resisted were hailed as national heroes. Similarly, today, the judges who are resisting this system are our heroes, while those acting as puppets, obediently following orders, lack conscience and are no different from the PCO judges of the Musharraf era.
For the struggle to restore the rule of law and uphold the Constitution, it is essential for the Insaf Lawyers Forum and legal fraternity to step forward decisively. Only a just legal system can safeguard the people; without it, neither economic progress nor moral development is possible.
I have full confidence in Salman Safdar and his team and have instructed them to file an appeal against these bogus decisions in the Islamabad High Court.
My message for Sohail Afridi is to prepare for a street movement. The entire nation must rise for their rights!!
To strive for justice is a sacred duty, and I am ready to lay down my life for Haqeeqi Azadi (true freedom) of my nation.”
Illegally Incarcerated Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speaking to his lawyers after the verdict of a military-style trial in Adiala Jail - (20 December, 2025)
”جدوجہد عبادت ہے اور حقیقی آزادی کی جدوجہد کے لیے میں شہادت کے لیے بھی تیار ہوں!
اس وقت پاکستان صرف ”عاصم لأ“ پر چل رہا ہے۔ یہاں صرف لکھے لکھائے فیصلے پڑھ کر سنائے جا رہے ہیں۔ پچھلے تین سال کے بےبنیاد فیصلوں اور سزاؤں کی طرح توشہ خانہ 2 کا فیصلہ بھی میرے لیے کوئی نئی بات نہیں۔ یہ فیصلہ بھی جج نے بغیر کسی ثبوت اور قانونی تقاضے پورے کیے بغیر ہی جلدبازی میں سنا دیا- ہمیں یا ہمارے وکلأ تک کو نہیں سنا گیا-
مجھے اور میری اہلیہ کو مسلسل قید تنہائی میں رکھ کر ذہنی اذیت کا نشانہ بنایا جا رہا ہے۔ ہماری کتابوں، ٹی وی اور ملاقات سب پر پابندی ہے۔ جیل میں ہر قیدی ٹی وی دیکھ سکتا ہے لیکن مجھ پر اور بشریٰ بی بی پر ٹی وی دیکھنے تک کی بھی پابندی لگا دی گئی ہے۔ میرے خاندان کی جانب سے جو کتابیں بھیجی جاتی ہیں وہ جیل حکام کی طرف سے روک لی جاتی ہیں۔ ہمیں کئی کئی ہفتے مسلسل قید تنہائی میں رکھا جاتا ہے، یہ غیر انسانی سلوک ہے لیکن یہ سب ظلم و بربریت مجھے میرے عزم سے پیچھے نہیں ہٹا سکتا۔
ہماری روایات نہیں کہ عورتوں اور بچوں پر ظلم کیا جائے۔ ہمارے دین میں تو دوران جنگ بھی خواتین کو بخش دیا جاتا ہے مگر یہاں محض سیاسی اختلاف پر خواتین پر ظلم ڈھائے جا رہے ہیں۔ میری بہنوں اور دیگر خواتین کے ساتھ اڈیالہ جیل کے باہر جو بدسلوکی اور ظلم ہو رہا ہے اس پر مجھے شدید دکھ اور افسوس ہے۔ یہ جو سلوک بشرٰی بی بی، ڈاکٹر یاسمین، ماہرنگ بلوچ اور دیگر خواتین کے ساتھ کیا جا رہا ہے، وہ اسلامی روایات اور اخلاقیات کے برعکس ہے۔ میری اہلیہ بشریٰ بی بی کو صرف مجھ سے بغض میں قید تنہائی میں ڈالا ہوا ہے حالانکہ ان کا تو سیاست سے کوئی تعلق بھی نہیں تھا۔ وہ ایک گھریلو خاتون ہیں۔
فوج میری ہے اور پاکستان قوم کی ہے- جب میں عاصم منیر پر تنقید کرتا ہوں تو وہ ایک شخص پر تنقید ہے، جیسے ماضی کے ڈکٹیٹرز پر بھی ہوتی آئی ہے۔ عاصم منیر نہ تو کسی عوامی ریفرنڈم کے تحت ملک پر بیٹھا ہے، نہ عوامی ووٹ ک�� ذریعے آیا ہے۔ جیل میں میرے ساتھ جو کچھ بھی ہو رہا ہے، ایک کرنل کے کہنے پر ہو رہا ہے جو عاصم منیر کے احکامات مانتا ہے۔
پاکستان میں قانون کی بالادستی کا جنازہ اٹھ چکا ہے۔ 2007 میں جیسے پی سی او ججز نے ڈکٹیٹر کا ساتھ دے کر عدلیہ کا تقدس پامال کیا ان کی کوئی عزت نہیں، اور جنھوں نے ڈکٹیٹر کے خلاف مزاحمت کی وہ قوم کے ہیرو تھے۔ ایسے ہی آج کل جو ججز اس نظام کے خلاف مزاحمت کر رہے ہیں وہ ہمارے ہیروز ہیں۔ جو جج کٹھ پتلی بن کر ان کے اشاروں پر ناچ رہے ہیں وہ بے ضمیر ہیں اور مشرف دور کے پی سی او ججز کے ہی برابر ہیں۔
قانون کی بالادستی اور آئین کی بحالی کی جدوجہد کے لیے انصاف لائرز فارم اور وکلأ کا فرنٹ فٹ پر آنا ناگزیر ہے۔ انصاف کا نظام ہی عوام کو تحفظ دے سکتا ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ نہ کوئی معاشی ترقی ممکن ہے نہ ہی اخلاقی۔
مجھے سلمان صفدر اور ان کی ٹیم پر اعتماد ہے اور میں نے انہیں ہدایت کی ہے کہ بوگس فیصلوں کے
خلاف اسلام آباد ہائی کورٹ میں اپیل کریں۔
سہیل آفریدی کو پیغام دیتا ہوں کہ سٹریٹ موومنٹ کی تیاری پکڑیں۔ پوری قوم کو اپنے حقوق کے لیے اٹھنا ہو گا-
جدوجہد عبادت ہے اور میں پاکستان کی حقیقی آزادی کی جدوجہد کے لیے شہادت کے لیے بھی تیار ہوں!“
ناحق قید میں سابق وزیراعظم پاکستان عمران خان کی اڈیالہ جیل میں ملٹری سٹائل ٹرائل کے فیصلے کے بعد اپنے وکلأ سے گفتگو (20 دسمبر، 2025)