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.”
Cricket legend Imran Khan is rotting to death in a tiny jail cell in Pakistan. It's time Britain used its influence to help free him
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Former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Conversation with Members of his Family - Adiala Jail (July 1, 2025)
Note: This is a repost of the tweet from July 1, 2025.
“Instead of going through the formality of introducing a 27th constitutional amendment through a sham parliament, it would be better to openly declare a monarchy, because what exists today is outright dictatorship, forcibly imposed on the country.
The very foundation of Pakistan was laid on La Ilaha Illallah (There is no god except Allah), a declaration that liberates mankind from all forms of slavery. Our country was freed from British rule through immense sacrifices to establish a nation where every citizen would enjoy personal liberties. But the situation is completely the opposite. A mafia seeks to keep the entire nation enslaved. I am willing to endure solitary confinement in a dark prison cell, but I will never accept slavery. And that is my message to everyone: it is better to choose imprisonment than to live in such bondage. What is the value of freedom if, outside these walls, we are not truly free? Iqbal’s Shaheen (eagle) soars high, it does not live in servitude.
I give this call to the entire nation, especially to the workers and supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: Launch a movement after Ashura against the tyrannical system that has gripped this country. For me, death would be better than accepting a system built on slavery.
Every attempt is being made to suppress my voice so that my message does not reach the people and no one dares to stand up against oppression. But I will resist tyranny until my very last breath. I have complete faith in my Creator that this shadow of injustice will soon be lifted from Pakistan.
There are four pillars integral to any democracy: the right to vote, the rule of law, moral integrity, and a free press. The 26th Constitutional Amendment has effectively dismantled all four:
1. The Right to Vote: A dictator has no need for public mandate; he governs through force. The illegitimate assemblies formed via Forms-47, and the subsequent distribution of reserved seats, have only reinforced the perception among the people that their votes hold no value.
2. The Rule of Law: The judiciary has been reduced to a subordinate department of the government. Courts are packed with handpicked judges, while independent judges have been silenced. This is a hallmark of martial law, not democracy.
3. Moral Fabric of Society: This amendment has buried all ethical values. Individuals who are not true representatives of the people now occupy seats in the assemblies. Horse-trading of assembly members continues with impunity, and even the judiciary operates under the thumb of this mafia.
4. Free Media: Under a dictatorship, the media is bound in chains. Freedom of expression has been entirely curbed. Independent journalists are being targeted, while the rest have been bought off.
Peaceful protest is a fundamental democratic and constitutional right. Yet, 26 of our MPAs were suspended for staging a protest in the Punjab Assembly. I commend Ahmad Bhachar and all PTI MPAs who had the courage to challenge these pharaohs. Until our 26 members are reinstated, our elected representatives should hold their own assembly outside. The Form-47-based assemblies do not represent the people, in any case.”
Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves
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.
🚨عوام کی ڈیمانڈ پر ایچ ڈی کوالٹی میں مکمل ستلج فلم ۔🚨
ایچ ڈی کوالٹی میں مکمل دوبارہ دیکھیے ۔
وہ فلم جس کو مودی نے انڈیا میں بین کیا ۔جس کو نیٹ فلیکس سے اتار دیا ۔
کیونکہ رجیم چینج والے سارے لوگ چاہتے ہیں عوام کے ساتھ جو ناجائز سلوک ریاست اور حکومت کرتی ہے وہ کوئی نہ دیکھے ۔
دیکھا جائے تو اس وقت برصغیر کے تمام ممالک میں یہی حالات ہیں جو ستلج میں دیکھائے گے ہیں ۔
کیا ہمارے پنجاب یا باقی صوبوں میںُ بھی ایسے حالات ہیں جو انڈیا کی پنجاب میں دیکھائے گے ہیں ؟
اس کا حل کیا ہے ۔۔۔
A detailed report by the “Amicus Curiae” appointed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the health and prison conditions of arbitrarily detained former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan reveals disturbing details of serious human rights violations, inhumane treatment, psychological torture, and deliberate medical neglect, which has resulted in 85% vision loss in his right eye. Here are some highlights from the report:
What a brilliant article by Zorain Nizamani (PhD Student) - This article is taken off from @etribune website most likely because it is calling all DG ISPR visits to universities a wasteful exercise because the Youth is not fooled by their propaganda.
Here are some brilliant parts from the article by Zorain:
1) Title of the Article : “It is over”
2) For the older men and women in power, it’s over. The young generation isn’t buying any of what you’re trying to sell to them. No matter how many talks and seminars you arrange in schools and colleges, trying to promoting patriotism, it isn’t working. Patriotism comes naturally, when there is equal opportunity, sound infrastructure and efficient mechanisms in place.
3) When you provide your people with basic necessities and ensure people get their rights, you won’t have to go to schools and colleges to tell students that they are supposed to love their country, they already will nonetheless.
4) Young minds, the Gen Z, the alphas, they know exactly what is happening and despite your consistent efforts of trying to sell your views of patriotism to them, they are seeing right through it. Thanks to the internet, thanks to whatever little education we have left, despite your best efforts of keeping the masses as illiterate as possible, you have failed.
5) You have failed to tell people what to think, they are thinking for themselves. They might be a little too scared to speak their minds because they prefer breathing. But they see right through the façade of self-righteousness and virtue that you’ve meticulously put together.
6) You may be able to stay in power by using power but the people could not care less about you. You can’t even step outside your house without security, if that doesn’t speak enough about your popularity amongst people, you need to reevaluate things.
7) The younger lot has had enough and because they have learned that they cannot challenge the powers, they’re leaving the country. I would be too idealistic to think that they would lead a movement against corruption. They’d rather take a silent, quiet exit and not look back because their friends, who spoke up, were silenced.
8) But for the boomers, it’s over. The Gen Z wants faster internet, the ones in power want a stronger firewall. The Gen Z wants cheaper smartphones, the boomers want smartphones to be taxed. The Gen Z wants eased restrictions on freelancing, the boomers want to increase regulations on freelancing. There seems to be no common ground amongst them. That is exactly why the boomers have lost.
9) You can orchestrate all the wars you want; Gen Z will make memes out of it. Censor all the mainstream media, Gen Z will jump to platforms like Rumble, YouTube and Discord to voice their opinions. Boomers, you cannot censor thoughts now. Gone are the days when you could fool the people. No one’s being fooled anymore.
10) The economy handed down to us is worse than your morals.
11) We don’t watch when you talk on TV because most of the times whatever you say is hysterical. We have stand-up comedy for that, why watch mainstream media?
12) Times are changing and the sooner you realise the better. But you don’t care either. Your children are abroad, you’re making millions every single day, you enjoy vast, unchecked power, you eat the finest of foods and drink only the cleanest of water, why would you care? You will when you realise no one’s listening to you. You know why? Gen Z has their headphones on and their Spotify paid for, if the situation becomes unbearable, half of them will have enough resources to leave, the other half will make you listen to their music and not in a good way.
13) Boomers. We’ve had enough. We aren’t buying your narrative anymore. It’s worn out.
This article is a loud slap to the propaganda spread through university visits and the new wonder boy movement attempted to fool the Youth.
صاحب نے کہا کہ کروڑوں پاکستانیوں کا ملک چھوڑنا.”برین گین“ہے۔ مان لیتے ہیں۔تو پھر انہی میں سے ایک اوورسیز پاکستانی پی ایچ ڈی نے پیغام بھیجا ہے:
”It’s over. ہم تنگ آ چکے ہیں۔ آپ کا بیانیہ اب ہم نہیں خرید رہے۔ یہ بوسیدہ ہو چکا ہے۔“-زورین نظامانی
#ItsOver
Super Alert 🚨🚨🚨
میرے خیال میں جنرلز نے اس آرٹیکل کو ایکسپریس ٹربیون سے ڈیلیٹ کروا دیا ہے - تابڑ توڑ قسم کا آرٹیکل ہے۔ اس کو پڑھیں اور آگے پھیلائیں۔ اتنا پھیلائیں کہ یہ آئندہ ڈیلیٹ کروانے سے پہلے سوچیں کے نقصان زیادہ ہو گا۔
Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Allama Raja Nasir Abbas are extremely respectable to me. They are pro-democracy and principled individuals. I am surprised that their notification has not yet been issued. I direct Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s parliamentary group to protest this matter before the Speaker and Chairman Senate so that their notification as Leader of the Opposition may be issued. Moreover, for any movement against the existing system, PTI must fully comply with any call issued by Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Ayeen Pakistan.
I hereby dissolve the PTI Political Committee. The party’s Secretary-General, Salman Akram Raja, has full authority to constitute a new, concise committee that will devise political strategy and ensure its implementation.
I nominate Shahid Khattak as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Parliamentary Leader in the National Assembly.
In the Pakistan Bar elections, PTI must unite to fully support those candidates nominated by Salman Akram Raja and Hamid Khan. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the matters of the lawyers, the bars and the ILF shall be reviewed personally by Sohail Afridi, who will take whatever decisions are necessary for improvement.
Agriculture is the backbone of our economy, and its current state is alarming. The way the rights of farmers are being plundered is extremely regrettable.”
Conversation with his sister by the unjustly imprisoned former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, after one month of solitary confinement in Adiala Jail (December 2, 2025) 2/2
“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 کے 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)
ایک 19 گریڈ کے سرکاری ملازم کی ایک عوامی نمائندے کے لیے جو زبان استعمال کی گئی ہے وہ ایک خاص طرح کی ذہنیت کی عکاسی کرتی ہے جو خود کو اس ملک کے آئین اور قانون سے اوپر سمجھتی ہے ۔۔!!