ISLAMABAD: Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, on Monday appealed to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to allow Khan’s two sons to visit their father, saying his health was reportedly declining.
In a post on X, Goldsmith tagged Sharif and wrote: “This is an appeal directly to Pakistan’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.”
She said their sons, Sulaiman Khan and Kasim Khan, had applied for visas in January to travel to Pakistan to see their father.
“The Pakistan consulate states that online visa processing normally takes 7-10 working days. It has now been 60 days,” she wrote.
Goldsmith said the delay came despite public assurances that the sons could safely travel to see their father after four years.
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She said the assurances had been made by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif in remarks to journalist Mehdi Hasan and by a government spokesperson, Mosharraf Zaidi, in comments to Sky News presenter Yalda Hakim. Goldsmith added that the two had not been allowed to speak to their father by phone or send him letters, and had not seen him since 2022, when he was wounded in a shooting during a political rally that he described as an assassination attempt.
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