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Imran Khan meets wife, sister for 1st time this year after court order
New Age Desk 19 August, 2026, 22:42


Imran Khan | File photo

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan met his sister and wife for the first time in nine months at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail after the country’s Supreme Court allowed weekly family meetings for the jailed leader amid concerns over his health, NDTV reported on Wednesday.

Khan, who is the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party, has been in Adiala Jail since 2023, facing several cases. He is currently serving a 14-year sentence in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case.

His sister, Noreen Niazi, met him for the first time this year for 15 minutes, according to a Dawn report. Quoting jail sources, the Pakistani publication reported that the two met in the jail’s conference room, where they discussed his health and other issues.

Noreen also informed him about the Supreme Court’s earlier order to shift him to Shifa International Hospital for a medical checkup, they added.

More details regarding the meeting were not issued, as the Supreme Court, in its order, had warned the concerned parties that using the meeting for political gain would result in withdrawal of relief granted to Khan.

Khan’s other sisters, including Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan and his cousin Qasim Zaman, were not allowed to meet him. Also, political leaders from his party were barred from the meeting.

Separately, Khan’s jailed wife Bushra Bibi also met with her family on Tuesday in a conference room in the jail. Jail sources told Express Tribune that Khan’s meeting with his wife lasted around 30 to 35 minutes.

Bushra Bibi, also imprisoned at Adiala Jail, met with her family as well. Her meeting with her children Musa and Mubashara Maneka and sister-in-law Mehrunnisa lasted 40 minutes.

Earlier, the top court ordered the government to shift Khan within two days to Shifa International Hospital for medical treatment and keep him there till September 16, when the court will again hear petitions for his treatment at a private hospital.​

Ex-Pakistan PM Khan taken back to jail after hospital checks: govt

AFP
Islamabad, Pakistan
Published: 21 Aug 2026, 12: 23


Security personnel cordon off a street outside the Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad on August 20, 2026 after Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered to transfer jailed former prime minister Imran Khan to hospital for medical treatment. Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered on 18 August that Khan be moved to hospital for medical checks, after a petition by his lawyers over claims of poor health. AFP

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was transferred back to jail early on Friday, hours after being taken to a hospital for court-ordered medical checks, the government said.

The Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that Khan, Pakistan’s most popular politician, be taken to the private Shifa International Hospital in the capital Islamabad within 48 hours for treatment, after his lawyers petitioned the court over concerns that his health was poor.

The ex-cricket captain and his wife Bushra Bibi, who is also his spiritual guide, were both sentenced late last year to 17 years in prison.


Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan Reuters

Information Minister Attaullah Tarar wrote on X that Khan was instead taken to the public hospital Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, blaming the “security situation” caused by Khan’s supporters at the private clinic.

“A team of qualified doctors, including an ophthalmologist, a cardiologist, and a physician, conducted a detailed examination of him and declared him medically fit,” Tarar said.

“After the completion of this entire process, he was transferred back to Adiala Jail.”

Tarar also said that Khan’s sister, Uzma Khan, who is a medical doctor, was present during the examination.

Hundreds of police, some wielding sticks, were deployed near Shifa International Hospital late on Thursday, with roads leading to the clinic cordoned off ahead of the transfer.

Dozens of the 73-year-old’s supporters had waited outside the hospital.

The former prime minister received eye treatment at PIMS earlier this year, with his family and lawyer saying at the time that he had lost most of the vision in his right eye.

The court had warned against public gatherings on the hospital grounds or the use of information about Khan’s health for political gain, cautioning that any breaches could lead to the order being reversed.

The next court hearing was set for September 16.

Khan was prime minister from 2018 to 2022 before being removed in a no-confidence vote during a political crisis over tensions between his government and the powerful military establishment.

He has since faced multiple legal cases on corruption and other charges, which Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party maintain are politically motivated.

His arrest triggered nationwide protests in May 2023, some of which turned violent and led to hundreds of arrests.

Ending decades of political dominance by dynastic parties, Khan was voted in by millions of Pakistanis who grew up watching him play cricket, where he excelled as an all-rounder and led the nation to a World Cup victory in 1992.

But PTI made little headway improving the country’s finances, with galloping inflation, crippling debt and a feeble rupee undermining economic reform.​

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Ex-international captains renew appeal to Pakistan PM over Imran Khan's condition



Imran Khan | X photo

A group of former captains from across countries and continents on Sunday have written to the Pakistan government expressing concern over the medical condition of Imran Khan, the country’s World Cup-winning former captain. This is their second appeal in a span of six months.

Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar, all former India captains, are among 21 renowned international past cricketers who have renewed their appeal to the Pakistan Government over Imran’s health.

Initiated by Greg Chappell, the former Australia captain and India coach, the appeal was signed by Allan Border, Ian Chappell, Mike Gatting, Arjuna Ranatunga, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Strauss,Alastair Cook and Clive Lloyd, among others.

The former cricketers have written to Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif following this week’s brief medical examination of Imran. In all, there were 21 signatories to the appeal, which follows developments this week that, they say, fall short of a Supreme Court directive.

The letter — a follow-up to one sent in February by 14 former captains — was prompted by developments surrounding a Supreme Court order directing that Khan be transferred to a hospital for examination by a medical board, including his own physicians and his sister, Dr Uzma Khan, while also reinstating weekly family visits.

The former cricketers, most of whom have captained their national teams and earned civilian honours, pointed out that Imran’s hospital visit lasted only a few hours, after which he was sent back to prison, where he has been incarcerated for the past three years.

Their letter makes three specific requests: that the court-directed medical board be permitted to complete its independent assessment; that weekly family visits be restored and that any treatment the assessment recommends be provided without delay.

Imran was examined by a state-appointed medical team rather than the board the Court had directed, declared hit ‘medically fit,’ and then taken back to Adiala Jail before that board could complete its work — a sequence his family and legal team say does not meet what the Court ordered.

‘We're not asking Pakistan for anything unusual — just that a court order most countries would take for granted is actually carried out,’ said Greg Chappell.

The signatories, who describe themselves as writing ‘not as politicians, but as former colleagues and rivals who share a bond forged on the cricket field,’ are careful to note that they do not seek to adjudicate Pakistan's domestic legal processes.

The 21 signatories are Michael Atherton, Alex Blackwell, Allan Border, Michael Brearley, Greg Chappell, Ian Chappell, Belinda Clark, Alastair Cook, Michael Gatting, Sunil Gavaskar, Lee Germon, Adam Gilchrist, David Gower, Kim Hughes, Nasser Hussain, Clive Lloyd, Kapil Dev Nikhanj, Arjuna Ranatunga, Andrew Strauss, Dilip Vengsarkar, Stephen Waugh and John Wright.​

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Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima urges UK to act over his detention
Staff Correspondent 25 August, 2026, 09:36


Imran Khan and his ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith. | Collected photo

Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, has urged British prime minister Andy Burnham and foreign secretary Ed Miliband to publicly intervene over what she describes as a serious human-rights crisis surrounding Imran Khan’s detention.

Goldsmith and Imran Khan married in 1995 and divorced in 2004. They have two sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, who are British citizens.

Imran Khan has been in custody since August 2023 following his arrest in the Toshakhana case, and has since faced convictions and proceedings in several other cases. Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party have consistently maintained that the cases are politically motivated, while Pakistani authorities have rejected the allegations.

In her appeal, Goldsmith alleged that Imran Khan had endured three years of solitary confinement and had been denied regular contact with his family, as well as access to books, lawyers and doctors.

‘How much longer will Britain remain silent?’ she asked, directly addressing Burnham and Miliband.

Goldsmith alleged that the prolonged isolation and restrictions on Khan were taking a serious toll on his physical and mental health. She described the situation as a ‘human-rights emergency.’

‘He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years,’ she wrote, referring to the UN Nelson Mandela Rules governing solitary confinement.

Goldsmith also pointed to intervention by Pakistan’s Supreme Court, which she said had ordered comprehensive medical treatment, access to Imran Khan’s personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

‘Yet those orders are being defied,’ she alleged.

She argued that the matter could no longer be viewed solely as Pakistan’s internal political dispute.

‘This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency,’ Goldsmith said.

The former couple’s two sons were central to her appeal. Goldsmith said Sulaiman and Kasim had been forced to watch their father’s health decline from Britain and had been prevented from visiting him.

‘They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away,’ she said, also alleging that they had faced difficulties obtaining visas, threats of arrest and restrictions on court-mandated telephone calls.

Goldsmith also highlighted Imran Khan’s longstanding links with Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and played county cricket in England. She also referred to his charitable work, including the establishment of a cancer hospital and a university in Pakistan.

According to Goldsmith, she has repeatedly appealed to the British government to intervene, but claimed that attempts to resolve the matter through private diplomatic channels had failed.

She also referred to former foreign secretary David Lammy, claiming that he had informed her in writing that Britain would not intervene if her sons were arrested while travelling to Pakistan to visit their father.

Goldsmith is now calling for a more public British response.

‘Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally,’ she said, urging the UK government to demand that Pakistan comply with its Supreme Court and restore Imran Khan’s medical access and right to see his family.

She also called for an end to his prolonged isolation and urged Pakistan to uphold his fundamental human rights.

‘Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient,’ Goldsmith said, referring to Britain’s longstanding position on arbitrary detention and human rights.

Her intervention places the new Burnham government under pressure to determine whether Britain should publicly raise concerns about Imran Khan’s treatment and use diplomatic channels to press Pakistan over his medical care, family access and detention conditions.

Goldsmith ended her appeal with a direct message to the new British administration: ‘This an appeal to the new Burnham government to please now do the right thing.’​

Miandad weeps as he calls for Imran Khan’s release

Sports Desk
Published: 29 Aug 2026, 18: 32


Imran Khan and Javed Miandad Instagram

Pakistan cricket legend Javed Miandad has also spoken out in support of the release of jailed former prime minister and his longtime teammate Imran Khan. Calling Imran an honest man, the 1992 World Cup winner urged the authorities to resolve the matter through dialogue and release him.

Pakistan won the 1992 World Cup under the captaincy of Imran, one of the greatest all-rounders of all time. Imran has been in prison for more than three years in connection with corruption cases.

On 24 August, 21 former international captains jointly wrote to the Pakistani government demanding that Imran be provided with proper medical treatment and basic facilities. Australia captain Pat Cummins also expressed his support for Imran in a post on X. Miandad spoke about Imran in an interview with 'Narratives,' a platform run by Pakistani journalists.

Miandad is widely regarded as one of Pakistan’s greatest-ever batsmen. He held the record for most Test runs for Pakistan for many years before being overtaken by Younis Khan. He played 78 Tests for Pakistan as Imran’s teammate. No other pair of Pakistan teammates have played as many Tests together for the country.

Speaking about Imran to Narratives, Miandad said, “Someone explain this to me. Is he going to eat up Pakistan? We are all Pakistanis. We should sit together and resolve the issue. Whatever the problem is, that is what Pakistan needs now. The situation is being unnecessarily prolonged, and that is not right.”

Miandad, 69, rejected the notion that he had any feud or hostility with Imran during their playing days. “There was no hostility. We never had any quarrel,” he said.

Recalling the time he played county cricket in England with Imran, Miandad said, “We also played county cricket together. We spent six months together in England. Later, I also handed him the captaincy in the Pakistan team. We had a very good relationship and spent a wonderful period of cricket together.”

Miandad added, “He is also someone’s son. I often think—poor man, what kind of situation is he going through? We were very close. We played county cricket together, spent time together and understood each other very well. Together, we took Pakistan a long way forward.”

Miandad has been a strong critic in the past of Imran’s political leadership after retirement and his administration of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

Their warm relationship from their playing days also became somewhat strained later. In yesterday’s interview, however, Miandad said his earlier comments had also come from the heart. At the same time, he urged people not to forget Imran’s contribution to Pakistan.

Miandad said, “What is wrong is wrong. Of course, he is a national hero. I pray that this problem is resolved. I am also appealing to the Pakistani government. Perhaps I am not in a position to say much, but I can say this—he is my colleague. We spent a lot of time together and played together. I know Imran very well. He is an honest man.”

Miandad then became emotional while talking about his former teammate. With tears in his eyes, he said, “My prayers are that what is right should prevail. What more can I say? You have brought tears to my eyes. I am saying this from the heart.”



Imran Khan and Javed Miandad played together for Pakistan in 78 Test matches Miandad's Instagram

Miandad added, “If there is anything I can do, I certainly will. We are all Pakistanis. We have all carried Pakistan’s flag. All other differences should come to an end. In terms of patriotism, he is no less than anyone else. We fought on the cricket field. Who did we fight for? For Pakistan. What happened has happened. Everyone makes mistakes. Now end this.”

Miandad also spoke about Imran’s tenure as prime minister. “He also served the country as prime minister. There are no allegations that he stole anything,” he said.

Miandad also expressed concern about what could happen in Pakistan if anything happened to Imran. “God forbid, if something happens to him, can you imagine what will happen in the country? The whole of Pakistan will cry,” he said.


Imran Khan with the 1992 ICC World Cup trophy AFP

One of the most memorable chapters in the cricketing friendship between Imran Khan and Javed Miandad was the 1992 World Cup. In the final against England, the pair put together a crucial 139-run partnership for the third wicket. The partnership played a major role in Pakistan winning its first—and so far only—ODI World Cup.

After winning the 1992 World Cup, Imran retired from cricket and entered politics. He served as Pakistan’s prime minister from 2018 to 2022.

Following his removal from power, Imran was sentenced in corruption and other cases and remains in prison. He has denied wrongdoing in the allegations and cases against him and has maintained that they are politically motivated.​

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Imran being forced into Benazir, Nawaz-style deal: opposition leader

New Age Desk . Dhaka

18 October, 2026, 02:00

Pakistan’s opposition leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai has accused the government of trying to force jailed former prime minister Imran Khan into an agreement similar to those that led former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto into exile.

Achakzai made the allegation at a news conference at the Peshawar High Court on Friday, as opposition leaders challenged the imposition of governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province governed by Imran’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party before the move, reported Dawn.

‘The same is happening today with the PML-N and PPP in government,’ Achakzai said, referring to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Peoples Party, which are part of the ruling coalition.

Sharif went into exile in 2000 following a deal after being ousted and imprisoned in a military coup led by then-army chief Pervez Musharraf. Bhutto also spent years in self-imposed exile after her dismissal as prime minister and her party’s defeat in the 1997 general elections.

Achakzai, accompanied by Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-Ayin-i-Pakistan leaders Sardar Akhtar Mengal and Raja Nasir Abbas, said that the opposition was in contact with other parties and would soon convene a multi-party conference.

He said that resigning from parliament remained an option, while the opposition had already submitted its demands in response to an offer of negotiations. Calling for the empowerment of parliament, Achakzai demanded the withdrawal of what he described as a wrong constitutional amendment and the formation of an independent commission to ensure transparent elections. He also criticised restrictions on meetings with prisoners and demanded that the authorities disclose the whereabouts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister and other lawmakers.

Mengal questioned the constitutional basis for imposing governor’s rule on grounds of terrorism, arguing that military operations had failed to resolve security problems in Balochistan.

He also alleged that elected representatives had been sidelined and that the political system could not continue in its present form.

Meanwhile, the opposition alliance on Friday filed a constitutional petition with Peshawar High Court challenging the emergency proclamation and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The petitioners asked the court to declare the October 11 proclamation, issued under Articles 232(1) and 234 of the Constitution, unconstitutional and without lawful authority.

They challenged the transfer of the provincial assembly’s legislative powers to parliament, the removal of the elected chief minister and provincial cabinet, and the creation of a proposed advisory council and area development secretariat.

The petition also challenged the deployment of armed forces in the province, arguing that the measures must comply with constitutional requirements.

The opposition leaders sought interim relief to suspend the contested measures pending a final verdict and called for elected representatives to be allowed to perform their constitutional duties without unlawful restrictions.​

How 'Maulana Diesel' became a last hope of Imran Khan
Pakistan’s two influential politicians, Imran Khan and Maulana Fazlur Rehman, had long been divided by a deep wall of distrust. Ultimately, a misstep by the Shehbaz government brought them closer. Hamid Mir writes about how Maulana Fazlur Rehman became Imran Khan’s last hope.

Hamid Mir


Imran Khan Reuters file photo

I never imagined that Maulana Fazlur Rehman would join those demanding the release of Imran Khan. A few years ago, the Maulana publicly branded Imran Khan a "Zionist agent," while Khan, at political rallies, mocked him as "Maulana Diesel." Today, the Maulana has become the last hope of Khan, who has been imprisoned for three years. Khan's popularity has failed to translate into a mass movement, partly because of fifth columnists within his own party. He knows that only the Maulana, the second most popular leader in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, can bring people onto the streets against the current government.

I have known both men since 1988, when Pakistan's military ruler, General Zia-ul-Haq, dismissed Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo on corruption charges. Junejo, of the Pakistan Muslim League, had been appointed by Zia himself after the non-party elections of 1985. Nawaz Sharif, then Chief Minister of Punjab, chose to side with Zia rather than stand by the prime minister of his own party. After removing Junejo, Zia decided to bring Imran Khan into the new government. Khan had retired from Test cricket in 1987 but returned at Zia's request. The general believed that Khan's presence would help repair his battered reputation.

I was new to journalism in 1988 when I received a tip that Khan had been offered a ministry. When I contacted him to confirm it, he asked, "What do you think I should do?" I replied instantly: "Refuse." He said, "Fine, I will refuse, but don't make my refusal a news story, or it will create great difficulty for me." I could not sit on the story for long, and one day I published it. Khan was furious with me. Yet had he joined the government in 1988, he could not have led Pakistan to its Cricket World Cup victory in 1992.

Around the same time, I interviewed a German scholar on the Silk Letter Movement (Tehreek-e-Resheemi Rumal). He told me that during the First World War, Deobandi scholars of the subcontinent, with the help of Afghanistan, Turkey and Germany, had devised the "Berlin Plan" to resist British rule. The Silk Letter Movement was part of that plan, and had it succeeded, India might have won its freedom in 1916. Maulana Fazlur Rehman read the interview and praised it warmly when we met in Lahore.

He then sent me, through an associate, Maulana Syed Muhammad Miyan''s four-volume work Ulama-e-Hind Ka Shandar Mazi (The Glorious Past of the Ulema of India) so that I could learn more. That was the beginning of my respectful association with the Maulana.



Maulana Fazlur Rehman

In 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and America sent forces to several Gulf countries to defend it. Pro-Saddam demonstrations erupted across Pakistan. One day, Shahid Sheikh, the sports reporter of Daily Jang Lahore, brought a statement from Imran Khan: "Whoever is not with Saddam is not a Muslim." It caused a stir, since the Pakistani government stood with Saudi Arabia rather than Saddam. For the first time, I heard Maulana Fazlur Rehman praise Imran Khan. My own opinion of Saddam was different, but it was clear that both men were critics of America.

In 2002, another military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, tried to give his unconstitutional government a constitutional veneer through elections. Imran Khan was his party's only member in the National Assembly. From Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Asif Ali Zardari began efforts to make Maulana Fazlur Rehman prime minister, in opposition to Musharraf''s candidate, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali. Benazir Bhutto, in exile in Dubai, refused to support the Maulana under American pressure. Nawaz Sharif, in exile in Saudi Arabia, nominated him because he had no other option. Among those who voted for the Maulana were not only members of the Muslim League (N) but also Imran Khan.

I remember that in those days, whenever some impudent person called the Maulana "Maulana Diesel," Khan would pick a fight with him. Maulana was opposition leader in the National Assembly those days.The nickname “Maulana Diesel” had been coined in 1995 by Nawaz Sharif''s supporters, when the Maulana was an ally of Benazir Bhutto, whose government was backing the Taliban in Afghanistan. Yet when this same Imran Khan became prime minister in 2018, he began using the same taunt at his rallies. The animosity grew so deep that in 2019, in an interview with me for Geo Television, the Maulana declared Khan a Zionist agent.

That same year, the Maulana announced a long march against Khan's government. The then Army Chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, would summon journalists to Army House and tell them that the Maulana worked for British intelligence agency, MI6. Once I asked General Bajwa why he did not produce concrete evidence and take legal action. He promptly changed the subject. It was a curious contradiction: Bajwa extolled the benefits of friendship with Israel on one hand, while branding the Maulana a British agent on the other.

The Muslim League (N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party then decided to use the Maulana against Khan. In 2020, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) was formed under his leadership, and a campaign against Khan''s government began. Khan set all the intelligence agencies and NAB to dig up evidence of the Maulana's corruption. ISI chief General Faiz Hameed personally planted fake stories against him with favoured journalists, and a media trial began. It had no effect on the Maulana. Intelligence agencies found nothing against Maulana. One former ISI official Major General Rtd Nusrat Naeem told me in those days that once he tried to buy the support of Maulana for General Musharraf and handed him over a bag full of money but Maulana refused to accept it. When I wrote that fact in a column supporters of Imran Khan started a compaign against me on social media.

Meanwhile, Bajwa''s desire for friendship with Israel drove a wedge between him and Khan. Instead of granting Bajwa another extension as Army Chief , Khan decided to make General Faiz the Army Chief. In 2022, the opposition exploited the rift between the army chief and the prime minister and ousted Khan through a no-confidence motion. Out of power, Khan realized the Maulana''s importance and tried hard to forge an alliance with him, but failed. By then, the new ISI chief, General Nadeem Anjum, had driven the Muslim League (N) and the PPP away from the Maulana.

This was the same Maulana who, in 2010, had persuaded ulema(religious scholars) from across the country at Jamia Ashrafia Lahore to sign a unanimous declaration against terrorism. Now he was being labelled a supporter of terrorists. After that declaration, he survived back-to-back suicide attacks in Swabi, Charsadda and Quetta, yet never abandoned his stand against militancy in politics. That was his great contribution to Pakistan''s democratic process.

It is true that both Khan and Maulana favoured talks with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, but even so, the Maulana avoided becoming Khan''s political ally. A few weeks before the 2024 elections, Khan sent a message from jail: "Set all the conditions you want for an alliance, and I will endorse them blindly." The Maulana politely declined. He told me one day, "I refused to sign an agreement with Imran Khan because I once declared him a Zionist agent." The mistrust between them ran deep. In the end, it was the Shehbaz Sharif government's missteps that brought them together. Now Khan is behind the bars. His chief minister and many members of the parliament are in the custody of security agencies but Maulana is raising a strong voice against the authoritarian tactics of Shehbaz Sharif government.

The Maulana says that Khan has been jailed along with all the women of his family, and that governor's rule has been imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. "In these circumstances," he says, "we have no option but to resist oppression."

These days, social media is flooded with government sponsored fake videos and baseless allegations against the Maulana, and he is being threatened with arrest. He has been arrested eleven times in his political life and now he is ready for a twelfth arrest.The credit for bringing the Maulana and Khan closer goes to Shehbaz Sharif. Just as Khan appreciated the Maulana's importance only after losing power, the Muslim League (N) too will remember him only after losing power. But perhaps the Maulana will not fall into their trap again.

# Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist who works for Geo News​

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Imran Khan undergoes eye treatment at Islamabad hospital

Agence France-Presse . Islamabad

12 November, 2026, 00:00


Pakistani former prime minister Imran Khan briefly left prison for an overnight eye examination and treatment, the Islamabad hospital that conducted the procedure said on Wednesday. Khan, who served as premier from 2018 to 2022, has been behind bars since August 2023 and faces scores of charges ranging from corruption to treason following anti-establishment riots. The former cricket star, 74, and his legal team reject the allegations, branding them as politically motivated cases aimed at neutralising his popularity.

Khan ‘was brought from Central Jail Adiyala, Rawalpindi, to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, during the intervening night of 10 to 11 November 2026 for a medical check-up and follow-up eye treatment’, the hospital said in a statement. ‘During his stay at PIMS, he remained vitally stable before, during and after the procedure,’ it said, adding he had been discharged at 2:30am (2130 GMT). Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said the hospitalisation ‘raises deeply troubling questions about his health... and the transparency surrounding his condition’.

‘A human being’s health is not a political bargaining chip. Nor can the medical treatment of a former Prime Minister be reduced to a procedural formality,’ the PTI said, adding the ‘state bears full responsibility for his safety and well-being’.

Pakistan’s interior ministry and information ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment by AFP.

In October, discontent over Khan’s incarceration mounted with thousands protesting in the PTI’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stronghold, particularly over his medical treatment and access to him by doctors and family.

The Supreme Court ruled in August that Khan should be moved to a civilian hospital for treatment, but authorities instead returned him to prison after a short stay at a government-run hospital.

Once backed by the country’s powerful military establishment during his rise to power, Khan fell out over key appointments and foreign policy issues before being ousted in a parliamentary vote of no confidence in 2022.

He has publicly accused the military leadership, including Army Chief General Asim Munir, of orchestrating his removal. The military denies meddling in politics.​