The sister of the founder of PTI, Imran Khan, Aleema Khanum, said Friday that her children had requested her Pakistani visas and expected the approval of the Ministry of Interior before her visit to the country.
In a publication about X, he said: “A few days ago, Suleiman [Khan] and Kasim [Khan] He requested his visas with the high commission of Pakistan in London. The ambassador has suggested that he is waiting for the approval of the Ministry of Interior in Islamabad. “
The children of Imran, Sulaiman, 28, and Kasim, 26, caught 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.
Imran, imprisoned since August 2023, has been complying with a sentence in the Adiala prison in a corruption case of £ 190 million and also faces pending essays under the anti -terrorist law related to the protests of May 9, 2023.
Aleem had said previously that the children “definitely” would arrive in Pakistan, since they had a national identity card for Pakistani abroad and were “citizens of Pakistan.”
“If something happened to Imran’s children, it would become an international matter,” he told reporters.
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Khawaja Asif had commented: “Why would the Government prevent Imran’s children from coming to Pakistan?”
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, Interior Minister of State, Tallal Chaudhry, previously questioned what role, if they could play, 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.
