Kasim Khan, the son of incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan, raised his father’s case on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday, saying that the previous prime minister’s remedy by authorities was in violation of worldwide human rights conventions.
Imran — Imprisoned since 2023 for concealing Particulars of Toshakhana presents — is serving a 14-year sentence at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail within the £190 million corruption case.
In the meantime, his social gathering and household have alleged that he’s being stored in solitary confinement — with a restriction on guests being allowed to fulfill him in jail — and have repeatedly raised considerations over his medical remedy after it surfaced in January that he suffered an eye fixed ailment.
At a UNHRC session, Kasim mentioned Imran’s case was not an “remoted incident”. In reality, he claimed, it was the “most seen instance of a a lot wider sample of repression in Pakistan since 2022”. On this connection, he talked about the detention of political prisoners, trial and conviction of civilians by army courts and journalists being “silenced, kidnapped or pushed into exile”.
He additionally briefly talked about the February 2024 basic elections, reiterating the PTI’s allegations that they had been rigged.
Kasim famous that Pakistan had made binding commitments below the GSP+ framework to uphold worldwide human rights conventions, together with the Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the United Nations Conference towards Torture.
He claimed that Imran’s detention was arbitrary and that he was being stored in solitary confinement. Kasim additional talked about that there was a bar on his household visiting him and in addition alleged the “denial of medical care” to him. This, together with the trial of civilians in army courts, violated these treaty obligations, he mentioned.
Ending his brief handle, he mentioned, “My brother and I are usually not political individuals. We by no means wished to return earlier than our bodies like this. [But] My father’s life calls for that we take motion.
“We can not stand by as his well being deteriorates and he’s refrained from us. If the state of affairs had been reversed, we all know he wouldn’t cease preventing till we had been free. That’s the very least we are able to do for him.”
On Sunday, Kasim additionally shared a message by Imran on the social media platform X. The message got here after Data Minister Attaullah Tarar mentioned that Imran could be allowed to talk to his kids on Eidul Fitr.
Kasim mentioned he had spoken to Imran on Saturday, who had then requested for a message to be relayed. Within the message shared by Kasim, Imran assailed the judiciary, saying that that they had “offered their integrity”.
Kasim and his older brother Sulaiman stay in London with their mom and must journey to Pakistan to fulfill Imran.
The 2 had mentioned in December 2025 that that they had utilized for his or her visas and had been planning a visit to Pakistan in January. Nonetheless, reports emerged final month, alleging that the federal government was refusing to grant Imran’s sons visas. On the identical time, Kasim had alleged that the federal government was “intentionally” refusing to course of his and his brother’s visas.
Earlier this week, Tarar mentioned that Kasim and Sulaiman had been “welcome” to go to Pakistan on their Nationwide Id Card for Abroad Pakistanis (Nicop). Nonetheless, a day later their mom and Imran’s ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith alleged that the federal government was recommending that they journey to Pakistan on Nicops as they might have “no British safety”.
In the meantime, considerations have mounted Amongst Imran’s social gathering and relations after partial Imaginative and prescient loss in Imran’s proper eye was reported through his lawyer after he met him final month. Medical doctors later confirmed that, with glasses, the PTI founder had 6/9 partial imaginative and prescient in the proper eye.
On Monday, Imran underwent a 3rd eye process on the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). In a press release issued by the hospital, the PTI founder was dropped at Pims for a 3rd dose of an anti-VEGF intra-vitreal injection.
In the meantime, Imran’s household and private medical doctors need him to be admitted to Shifa Worldwide Hospital in Islamabad and have been demanding that his private physicians be offered entry to him.
The federal government and the opposition have additionally been engaged in a blame sportwith the latter accusing the previous of a scarcity of transparency on the matter, not guaranteeing acceptable remedy for Imran and never permitting his private physicians to entry him. The federal government denies these allegations.
