Members of former prime minister Imran Khan's family, including his three sisters, as well as activists from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have been arbitrarily detained.
The targeting of his family and PTI party activists is a flagrant violation of their rights to liberty, freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. Such actions speak to the severity of the current restrictions in Pakistan.
Amnesty International calls on the Pakistani authorities to immediately release Imran Khan’s relatives and PTI workers, who have been targeted simply for their familial ties, political affiliation and plans to protest.
An adviser to jailed former PM of Pakistan, @ImranKhanPTI , tells me several of his relatives and their children have been detained in Lahore. It comes ahead of protest march this Sunday. I’ll speak to Imran’s son, Kasim, on the Newshour @SkyNews around 5.30pm .
Prime Minister of Pakistan @CMShehbaz going to @UN for representing Pakistan. A journalist freind from New York asked me that why your government arrested three sisters of @ImranKhanPTI under a black law 3 MPO just days before the speech of Prime Minister in UN? How can he represent the Islamic Republic of Pakistan where government arresting elderly women without any criminal cases?
Disgusting.
A peaceful protest is set to take place on the 27th. Yet the military plan to use it to make an example of anyone questioning their rule. They are planning a bloodbath.
I commend the brave souls who stand up for their country against this tyrannical regime.
Inshallah the rest of the world will speak up soon. I just pray it doesn’t take an atrocity to make them see how bad things are.
A very scary time to be a Pakistani.
🇵🇰 A disturbing video coming out of Bannu, Pakistan, and what worries me most is that we still don’t know what happened to the man in it.
Local accounts identify him as Hashmat Khan, the son of PTI lawmaker Zahid Ullah Khan. The footage appears to show armed men in plain clothes surrounding him and forcing him into a vehicle.
We don’t know who those men are. We don’t know where they took him. And, most importantly, we don’t know whether he is safe.
That uncertainty matters in Bannu, where militant abductions are a real threat and opposition figures have also accused state authorities of enforced disappearances.
Where is Hashmat Khan, and is he safe?
@PTIofficial / Writer: Oli
🚨 22 سال پہلے بھی 4 ہزار دہشتگرد تھے آج بھی 4 ہزار دہشتگرد ہیں، یہ کم ہی نہیں ہورہے، 5 ڈویژن فوج ہے ، سوا لاکھ سپاہی ہیں لیکن یہ دہشتگرد کم ہی نہیں ہورہے،
بابر سلیم سواتی @BabarSaleemSwat
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.
🚨🚨🚨 shocking scenes from Peshawar in front of Corps Commander House, a PTI MPA and minister being abducted in broad daylight‼️
who is running the KP province?? @SohailAfridiISF
🚨🇵🇰 Videos just dropped of police raiding the homes of Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders (Khan party) in Sialkot.
What is this madness?
WTF is happening in Pakistan and why is nobody saying anything?
Writer: Samuel
🚨🇵🇰 Chaos in Peshawar: a PTI (Khan's party) provincial minister has been seized in broad daylight by men in plain clothes.
Minister Shakoor was reportedly leaving the MPA Hostel for a meeting at the Chief Minister’s House when the men stopped him and took him away.
The reported abduction happened in broad daylight, in front of the Corps Commander House.
WTF IS HAPPENING IN PAKISTAN?!
Writer: Samuel
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.”
Imran Khan’s family and PTI officials say three of the jailed former PM’s sisters have been detained in Lahore ahead of a September 27 march on Islamabad demanding his release.
Authorities have confirmed Aleema Khan was ordered to be held for 30 days.
عمران خان کے خاندان کی چار خواتین گرفتار ہو چکی ہیں جنرل ضیاء الحق کے دور میں بھٹو خاندان کی دو خواتین گرفتار ہوئی تھیں عمران خان کے دور میں شریف خاندان کی ایک اور زرداری خاندان کی ایک خاتون گرفتار ہوئی تھی موجودہ دور میں عمران خان کی اہلیہ اور تین بہنوں کو گرفتار کر لیا گیا ہے
Upon instructions from friends and family, I have submitted an urgent complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (@UN_SPExperts) copied to the Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression, Belief, and Association concerning the detention of @ImranKhanPTI 's sister Mrs Aleema Khan (@Aleema_KhanPK)
On 20 September 2026, Mrs Khan was seized from near her house in Lahore and the authorities, after first refusing to acknowledge that they had detained her, have now stated that she is being held under the draconian Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, which allows the authorities to order the detention of individuals without court approval.
It is clear that Mrs Aleema Khan has been targeted because of her support for her brother (@ImranKhanPTI) and because of her advocacy for democracy in Pakistan and we have submitted that her detention is unlawful and arbitrary, as it is without a proper legal basis and has taken place because of her exercise of her rights to freedom of expression, belief, and assembly, and in an attempt to dampen support for the legitimate public protest in support of Imran Khan planned for 27 September 2026.
After speaking up for Aleema following her seizure, her two sisters have now also been detained.
We ask you all to raise the case of Aleema Khan and her sisters wherever you are and for the international community to act for democracy in Pakistan.
@KhanShershah@MrsSFaisall@PTIofficial@PTIOfficialISB@PTIPunjabPK@SkyYaldaHakim
#ArbitraryDetention #Persecution #InternationalLaw #FreeAleemaKhan