Prison administration finally acquits one person of visits after repeated refusals
Imran Khan’s sisters Aleema Khan and Noreen Khan during a sit-in outside Adiala Jail on Tuesday, November 25, 2025. Photo: FILE
The Adiala prison administration is allowing Imran’s sister, Uzma Khanum, to visit him after repeated refusals despite court orders granting party leaders and family visiting rights. The Uzma 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 allowed visiting rights for one person. Prison authorities have restored visits after 29 days.
Islamabad Capital Territory Administration and District Administration Rawalpindi imposed Section 144 across the cities on Monday after PTI announced a protest outside Adiala Jail and Islamabad High Court for Tuesday (today).
In a move to show solidarity with ongoing protests, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi had directed all provincial assembly members to travel to Islamabad immediately. Sources said the directive was issued after a meeting of the provincial cabinet. “All members of the assembly must reach Islamabad tonight,” Afridi said, confirming that the lawmakers would actively participate in a protest planned for tomorrow.
Afridi has told reporters that he has exhausted “all constitutional and legal options” in his efforts to secure a meeting. “Which way is left for me to meet my leader?” he asked, adding that despite a court order, neither he nor other PTI leaders had been given access to the party’s jailed founding chairman.
Afridi also recalled earlier incidents where the founder’s sisters were stopped on Adiala Road and alleged that they had been humiliated. “All this is being done to break the founder. Bushra Bibi is being targeted,” he said. He claimed that “those who fled to London” used to receive dozens of visitors in the same facility.
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The party has lamented that the meeting with its jailed leader had become an ordeal, with even legal advisers, family members and staff denied access to the “reclusive” leader for a “two-minute, non-political” meeting on health.
Aleema moves IHC
Aleema Khan filed a contempt of court petition against the Adiala jail authorities for allegedly defying a binding IHC order allowing meetings with Imran Khan.
The plea came amid intensified tension outside the Adiala jail, where KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and a group of PTI lawmakers had staged an overnight sit-in after Afridi was denied access to Imran for the eighth consecutive time on Thursday.
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The PTI leadership claims that the refusal to allow meetings has turned into a systematic policy of political punishment despite clear legal directions.
The petition names Adiala Jail Superintendent Abdul Ghafoor Anjum, Saddar Beroni Station House Officer Raja Aizaz Azeem, Federal Home Minister Capt (retd) Muhammad Khurram Agha and Punjab Home Minister Noorul Amin as respondents.
Earlier, Aleema Khan and CM Afridi went to the IHC to seek an audience with the court’s chief justice.
Speaking to the media outside the court, Afridi claimed that they were informed that the chief justice “did not want to meet them”.
