RAWALPINDI: The incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman sisters, legal team and PTI leaders and workers staged a protest Tuesday outside Adiyala Jail after they were again barred from meeting the former Prime Minister Khan.
Tuesday had been designated as the visitation day for Khan’s family and legal team.
However, his sisters — Aleema Khan, Dr Uzma Khan and Noreen Khan as well as party legal team were denied meeting with the PTI’s founding chairman. Unlike previous weeks Khan’s and leaders did not stage sit-in and stage protest and then disperse peacefully.
PTI’s interim chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, PTI secretary general Salman Akram Raja, Shafi Ullah Jan Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Information, provincial minister Meena Khan Afridi, MNA Shahid Khattak, other party leaders and a large number of party workers joined the protest, the participants of sit-in chanted slogans demanding Imran Khan’s release as well as against the government.
Talking to reporters Aleeam Khan said that although Tuesday is designated for family members and lawyers to meet, they are still being denied access to the PTI founding chairman. Over the past year, she claimed, only around two dozen meetings have been allowed. According to her, Khan has been kept in solitary confinement to subject him to further “torture.”
She said that the last meeting with Khan was held on December 2 last year, while lawyer Salman Safdar was allowed a forced meeting of only eight minutes when he visited on December 20, 2025. She alleged that there was an attempt to portray the Khan as mentally unstable, but maintained that he remains steadfast.
“He is in jail for his nation,” she said, adding that her family considers itself fortunate to have someone like him as a family member. She said he has set an unparalleled example of sacrifice for Pakistan and has faced all cases brought against him.
Welcoming the return of Basant, she said that kites of two colours would be flown, urging supporters to write “Prisoner No804” on them. “I don’t know how to fly a kite, but when children do, I will also go, and kites marked 804 will be flown,” she said.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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