The prison administration finally authorizes visits for one person after repeated refusals
Imran Khan’s sisters, Aleema Khan and Noreen Khan, during a sit-in outside Adiala Prison, Tuesday, November 25, 2025. Photo: FILE
The Adiala prison administration allows Imran’s sister, Uzma Khanum, to visit him after repeated refusals despite court orders granting party leaders and families visiting rights. Uzma’s meeting with the PTI founder is currently underway. She is on her way in a special vehicle from the checkpoint. She will go alone to Adiala prison through gate number 5.
Today is the scheduled visiting day for Imran and Bushra Bibi. The founder’s sisters – Aleema Khanum, Noreen Niazi and Uzma Khan – reached the Gorakhpur checkpoint, accompanied by lawyer Salman Akram Raja and a large number of party supporters. However, the prison administration granted visitation rights to only one person. Prison authorities reinstated visits after 29 days.
The Islamabad Capital Territory Administration and Rawalpindi District Administration on Monday imposed Section 144 in all cities after the PTI announced a protest outside Adiala Jail and Islamabad High Court on Tuesday (today).
In a gesture of solidarity with the ongoing protests, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi had asked all members of the provincial assembly to go to Islamabad immediately. Sources said the directive was issued after a meeting of the provincial cabinet. “All assembly members are expected to reach Islamabad this evening,” Afridi said, confirming that lawmakers would actively participate in a protest planned for tomorrow.
Afridi told reporters he had exhausted “all constitutional and legal options” in his efforts to secure a meeting. “What path remains for me to meet my boss? he asked, adding that despite a court order, neither he nor other PTI leaders were allowed to meet the party’s imprisoned founding president.
Afridi also recalled earlier incidents in which the founder’s sisters were arrested on Adiala Road, alleging that they were humiliated. “All this is done to break the founder. Bushra Bibi is being targeted,” he said. He claimed that in the past, “those who fled to London” were allowed dozens of visitors in the same facility.
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The party lamented that meeting its imprisoned leader had become an ordeal, with even legal advisers, family members and associates denied access to the “isolated” leader for a “two-minute, apolitical” meeting on health.
Aleema moves IHC
Aleema Khan has filed a contempt of court petition against the Adiala Prison authorities for allegedly defying a binding IHC order allowing meetings with Imran Khan.
The plea comes amid heightened tensions outside Adiala jail, where KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and a group of PTI lawmakers had staged a sit-in overnight after Afridi was denied access to Imran for the eighth consecutive time on Thursday.
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The PTI leadership says the refusal to allow meetings has turned into a systematic policy of political sanctions, despite clear judicial directives.
The petition names Adiala Prison Superintendent Abdul Ghafoor Anjum, Saddar Beroni Station In-charge Raja Aizaz Azeem, Federal Home Secretary Captain (retd) Muhammad Khurram Agha and Punjab Home Department Secretary Noorul Amin as respondents.
Earlier, Aleema Khan and CM Afridi had visited the IHC to seek an audience with the top judge of the court.
Speaking to the media outside the court, Afridi claimed they had been informed that the chief justice “did not want to meet them”.
