PTI’s founder’s sister, Imran Khan, Aleema Khanum, clarified on Saturday that her children have requested national identity cards for Pakistani (Nicops) abroad and visas to visit Pakistan.
Imran, imprisoned since August 2023, has been fulfilling a sentence in the Adiala prison in a corruption box of £ 190 million and also faces pending essays of the anti -terrorist law related to the protests of May 9, 2023. their children, their children, Sulaiman Khan and Kasim Khan, have been the protest of their incarcation, but the uncertainty of those who do not have the uncertainty Pakistan
A day ago, Aleema said they had requested visas and were waiting for the approval of the Ministry of Interior. That had led the Minister of Interior of Tallal Chaudhry to ask why they would need visas if they had the Nicop, as she had said before.
Clarifying the matter today while talking to journalists from Adiala prison, he said: “The Nicop of one [of the brothers] Missing and the other cannot find your card, so you have submitted two requests: one to issue your Nicop, which is valid during the next six to seven years … and have also requested the visa that can be issued in an hour.
“It is their choice. They have Nicop, they have British passports. So what problem (the Interior Ministry) have to issue a visa?”
She declared that she had access to monitoring numbers for applications, challenging the claims that requests were not received.
Meanwhile, Chaudhry said the brothers would be treated as dual nationals if they arrived on the basis of the Nicop. “If they choose to seek consular assistance as British citizens, they still have the right to do so regardless of whether they entered a visa or Nicop.”
Sulaiman, 28, and Kasim, 26, drew attention to his father’s imprisonment for the first time publicly in May. Last month, Aleema said they would go to the United States before coming to Pakistan as part of a movement that asks for the liberation of the former usor. The brothers visited the United States and hired US legislators on the issue of their father’s imprisonment.
Earlier this week, the PTI quickly reported the reports of the media that claimed that the imprisoned leader told Adiala Jail journalists that their children would not come to Pakistan and participate or lead any protest.
Although the Government has not officially commented on the issue of Imran’s children, Chaudhry previously questioned what role, if there were any, that they could perform, and added that they were welcome to visit Pakistan and that there would be no obstacle to them. He continued that visas would be issued “in less than 24 hours”, provided they remained within the law.
The Minister of State for Law and the Barrimer of Justice Aqeel Malik had told him Dawn.com That article 16 of the Constitution, which grants the right to meet, was applicable to citizens and foreigners cannot meet in Pakistan.
Malik also said that the two brothers could not legally participate in the local political activity, since they were British citizens, and that if they “violate the visa conditions, the visa can be canceled.”
There were also contradictory statements of PML-N leaders about whether the duo would be allowed to enter Pakistan, with Senator Irfan Siddiqui saying that they should be allowed to come and “carry out their activities”, but within the limitations of the law.
