London and Islamabad —
The sons of the imprisoned former leader of Pakistan Imran Khan say they fear for their father’s health, claiming authorities in the South Asian country are preventing them from seeing him.
On the third anniversary of their father’s arrest, Kasim and Sulaiman Isa Khan said they had “no updates because his family, doctors (and) lawyers haven’t been allowed to see him for seven months.”
Thousands of workers from Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf party took to the streets in rallies across the country on Wednesday to demand the release of the former star cricketer-turned-politician and his wife Bushra Bibi.
Khan, who led the country from 2018 until his ouster in a parliamentary no-confidence vote in 2022, has been in prison since his conviction a year later on charges including corruption and revealing state secrets – charges he and his supporters say are a politically motivated response to his opposition to the current government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
