Kasim Khan, the son of incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan, said on Wednesday that the government was “deliberately” refusing to process his and his brother’s visas.
In a post on X, Kasim said, “My brother and I are trying to travel to Pakistan to see our father. For 914 days, he has been held in solitary confinement while his health deteriorates and he is denied access to independent medical care.
“Now the government is deliberately refusing to process our visas. Denying a prisoner treatment is cruel. Denying his children the right to see him is collective punishment,” he said.
“I call on international human rights organisations and governments to speak out and act before irreversible harm is done,” he said.
Kasim and his older brother Suleiman live in London with their mother, Jemima Goldsmith.
The development comes as the government last week admitted that Imran was treated at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), days after reports regarding the treatment of the former premier emerged in mainstream media.
The PTI had subsequently condemned the act of “secretly transferring” Imran to Pims, deliberately keeping his family and the party leadership uninformed, and denying him access to personal physicians.
A day earlier, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, Mahmood Khan Achakzai, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, seeking his “personal intervention” for the medical examination of PTI founder Imran Khan by the jailed leader’s “trusted” doctors.
Meanwhile, Imran’s sons, Kasim and Suleiman, said in December 2025 that the two had applied for their visas and were planning a trip to Pakistan in January.
However, this week reports emerged alleging that the government was refusing to grant Imran’s sons visas.
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