Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan Alive but Facing ‘Mental Torture’ in Adiala Jail, Says Sister After Visit

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is physically alive but enduring severe mental torment inside Adiala Jail, his sister Uzma Khanum revealed after being allowed a 20-minute meeting with him – the first family contact in over three weeks.

Speaking to journalists outside the prison, Khanum said, “Alhamdulillah, he is alright physically, but he is extremely angry over the mental torture being inflicted on him. He remains confined to his cell almost the entire day, is allowed out only briefly, and is completely cut off from communication with anyone.”

She disclosed that the 72-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder directly accused Army Chief General Asim Munir of orchestrating his continued detention and harsh treatment.

The meeting came amid spiralling rumours about Khan’s health and even death, fuelled by a prolonged ban on family visits, refusal to allow his personal physician inside the jail, and alarming statements from his sons living abroad that authorities might be hiding “something irreversible.”

Last month, three of Khan’s sisters claimed they were manhandled by security personnel when they tried to meet him. His sons have repeatedly demanded independent “proof of life,” pointing out that court-ordered weekly family meetings have been consistently violated.

For more than 25 days, neither relatives nor PTI leaders had been permitted to see the former premier, prompting widespread fears – initially spread by social media accounts from Afghanistan – that authorities were concealing his death to prevent nationwide unrest among his millions of supporters.

PTI Senator Khurram Zeeshan on Sunday alleged that Khan is being held in extreme isolation as part of a deliberate strategy to break him psychologically and force him into exile, claiming the Shehbaz Sharif government views the jailed leader’s enduring popularity as an existential threat.

The brief visit on Tuesday has temporarily eased the most extreme rumours, but concerns over Imran Khan’s wellbeing and the conditions of his confinement continue to mount both inside Pakistan and internationally.

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