{"id":12294,"date":"2025-12-16T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/imran-khans-sons-fear-they-may-never-see-him-again-as-former-pakistan-pm-held-in-death-cell\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:45:52","slug":"imran-khans-sons-fear-they-may-never-see-him-again-as-former-pakistan-pm-held-in-death-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/imran-khans-sons-fear-they-may-never-see-him-again-as-former-pakistan-pm-held-in-death-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan&#8217;s sons &#8216;fear they may never see him again&#8217; as former Pakistan PM &#8216;held in death cell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The sons of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan have said they fear they might never see their father again as he is being &ldquo;psychologically tortured&rdquo; in a &ldquo;death cell&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky News&rsquo; <strong>The World with Yalda Hakim<\/strong>, Kasim and Sulaiman Khan said they had not spoken to their father, who has been in prison since August 2023, for months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Imran Khan&rsquo;s sons being interviewed by Yalda Hakim<br>\n        <\/span><br>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kasim described the conditions the former Pakistani leader has been kept, saying: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been in a solitary confinement cell for over two years where he&rsquo;s had filthy water, he is around inmates who are dying of hepatitis, the conditions are disgusting and also he is completely isolated from any human contact.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s getting harder to see a route out at this point. We&rsquo;re trying to have faith. But at the same time, right now, the conditions are getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s very hard to see a way out&hellip; We&rsquo;re now worried we might never see him again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kasim said his father was being subjected to &ldquo;psychological torture tactics&rdquo; as even the prison guards weren&rsquo;t allowed to communicate with the former Pakistani leader, who led the country between 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p> <em> <\/em> <\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/12\/768x432\/skynews-khan-pakistan_7098580.jpg?20251202151320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/12\/384x216\/skynews-khan-pakistan_7098580.jpg?20251202151320 380w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/12\/768x432\/skynews-khan-pakistan_7098580.jpg?20251202151320 760w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/12\/1600x900\/skynews-khan-pakistan_7098580.jpg?20251202151320 1024w, https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/25\/12\/2048x1152\/skynews-khan-pakistan_7098580.jpg?20251202151320 2048w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw\" alt=\"Imran Khan, pictured in March 2023 before his arrest on corruption charges. File pic: Reuters\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\"><span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Imran Khan, pictured in March 2023 before his arrest on corruption charges. File pic: Reuters<br>\n        <\/span><br>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sulaiman said his father&rsquo;s cell, where he allegedly spends 23 hours a day, has been described as a &ldquo;death cell&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-related-stories sdc-article-related-stories--thumbnails\" data-component-name=\"sdc-article-related-stories\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-related-stories__content\">\n<h3 class=\"sdc-article-related-stories__title\">More on Imran Khan<\/h3>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-related-stories__tags\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-tags sdc-article-tags--lozenge\" data-align=\"right\" data-testid=\"article-tags\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-tags__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"sdc-article-tags__title\" data-testid=\"article-tags-title\">Related Topics:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said an army spokesperson announced on Friday that Imran Khan, who has in the past been shot three times, was now officially in full isolation.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Imran Khan was being kept in &ldquo;completely substandard conditions that don&rsquo;t meet international law for any sort of prisoner&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers&rsquo; words echo what one of Khan&rsquo;s sisters <strong>reported after being allowed to meet the former cricketer<\/strong> in prison at the start of the month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-site-video\" data-testid=\"site-video\">\n<div class=\"ui-video-player\" data-component-name=\"ui-video-player\" data-testid=\"video-player\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-orientation data-disable-ads data-disable-post-rolls data-ad-tag=\"20346936\/skynews\/videoplayer\" data-content-source-id=\"2537425\" data-show-captions data-account-id=\"6058004172001\" data-player-id=\"FeuO55X2f\" data-video-id=\"362bf36c-691a-4c7f-8a56-d606df2ee743\" data-auto-change-orientation data-autoload=\"false\" data-pause-if-visibility-changes=\"mobile\" id data-id data-deferred-load 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move towards his goal of ridding Pakistan of corruption, a goal that he has stated to us a million times.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mosharraf Zaidi, a Pakistani government spokesperson, will be speaking to Yalda Hakim tonight on Sky News from 9pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Imran Khan&rsquo;s sons &lsquo;fear they may never see him again&rsquo; as former Pakistan PM &lsquo;held in death cell&rsquo;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sons of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan have said they fear they might never see their father again as he is being &ldquo;psychologically tortured&rdquo; in a &ldquo;death cell&rdquo;. 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