PTI founder Imran Khan’s son Kasim Khan has said the latter and his brother Suleiman have submitted request for their visit visa to Pakistan, adding that they both will visit Pakistan on January, and also claimed that his father was himself being kept in a “death cell”.
The comments (made in an interview to Yalda Hakim) came as another sit-in staged outside Adiala jail by Imran’s sisters over not allowed meeting at the prison was dispersed using water cannons and the party claimed that the authorities had used “chemical-laced” water.
While the court-issued prison visits remain restricted, Imran’s family and party have raised questions about Imran’s “circumstances inside the jail.
In their interview with Hakim, which was published on Wednesday morning, Kasim and Suleiman, who are based in London, were asked whether they had attempted to reach out to the Pakistani government to gain permission to see Imran.
Hakim said that they had also discussed earlier about “being advised not to come” and yet Defence Minister Khawaja Asif mentioned that they “were welcome to come and can meet him [Imran]”.
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To which Kasim responded: “We are thinking now of doing so because they said it on the record. So — unless they were lying but I don’t think so — things should be shit-hot in January. We have applied for our visas. […] Still have not seen it. We believe that it’s going to come through, so we’re planning a trip in January.”
Yalda then asked them what they would say to Imran when they saw him, and if they would try asking him to “cut a deal”.
This, it appears, was an allusion to rumours that Imran and Pakistan’s rulers would strike a deal paving the way for the ex-prime minister to be freed from jail.
But Kasim said, “what you have to understand is it’s his life. It’s truly his passion and his aim. He says it is his life mission to cleanse Pakistan of the scourge of corruption.”
“So if he just took a deal and came over to us and lived in England, I know there would be this burning desire, this aching that he’s left his country for dead. And he would be discouraged, frankly. I know he would.
“That’s what he wants to do, and as much as we’d love our father be coming to all of our cricket games or football games over here, he has a job which is way more important. So, you can only respect it.”
When asked what else they would want to tell Imran or a message they would send to him, Kasim replied, “I want to know how we can get him out, how we can help because the main point is we feel so helpless at this point. I mean, there’s so much to catch up on.”
He also revealed Imran would always not discuss his situations whenever they talked.
“He’s like, ‘Oh, you know, don’t worry about me. How’s everything?’ ” at which point he would also ask about their grandmother Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Kasim said.
“We haven’t heard from him since she died only a few months ago, and I would really like to talk with him about that. He had called her his mother after his own mother died, their relationship was that close. So I’d love to talk to him about that,” he added.
Hakim also questioned the two about the facilities provided to Imran inside jail, “The conditions are pathetic,” Kasim informed him. I mean, they’re not bad, they’re hideous.”
According to Suleiman, the cell Imran was lodged in has been termed as a “death cell”.
“There’s hardly any lights, sometimes no electricity, there’s filthy water […] completely inadequate conditions by international laws for any kind of detainee,” he added.
They were also questioned on “as to what went in their mind when they stumbled upon rumors of Imran’s possible death on social media”.
Suleiman said that had been “incredibly stressful”.
“I immediately went to my family group chat because that’s the only solid source we have on the ground in Pakistan,” he said.
For his part, Kasim said seeing the rumours on social media was “disorienting”.
It “clearly takes you out of whatever else you’re trying to do in your regular life. Especially [when you think of] how helpless we are all the way over here not able to do anything at all,” he said.
Yalda also mentioned the issue of one of Imran’s sisters, Uzma Khanum, being allowed to visit him in jail in early December after reduced contact for weeks. What further outraged the military leadership was a post on Imran’s X which it referred as his “jail letter” after the meeting, that had resulted in a tough press briefing by Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.
The military spokesperson launched an unusually fierce tirade against the jailed former prime minister during the press conference.
When asked what Uzma told Kasim and Suleiman after the meeting, the older of the two replied: ‘She told us that he is okay, but angry about where they kept him.’
“And he put out — he dictated a tweet I think it was, through her (or it might have been through her). “And I believe that tweet in part has led to what we see the backlash being from the establishment now, trying to fully isolate him,” Suleiman said.
