Imran Khan has just 15% vision left in right eye, family blames medical neglect [Update@post823]

[RizwanT20Champ]

Man sometimes i forget how lucky I am to be living in the west enjoying all the perks. It’s easy to take your freedom, your privilege for granted seeing how brutal and unforgiving life can be in corruption ridden societies ruled by fascism where sanctity of life is fragile and barely any justice. It takes a special kind of patriot to leave the life of comfort and choose to live in a country like Pakistan where going against the status quo can kill you or worse.

I will admit that however flawed I may find IK, I admire the fact that he didn't leave the country. I don't agree his intentions are as noble as being touted here necessarily but I will abstain from criticizing the man when he is down. Whatever his other issues, he has won us a WC and does not deserve to be treated badly.

 

[psyoptica]

I will admit that however flawed I may find IK, I admire the fact that he didn't leave the country. I don't agree his intentions are as noble as being touted here necessarily but I will abstain from criticizing the man when he is down. Whatever his other issues, he has won us a WC and does not deserve to be treated badly.

No one is perfect in this world and whatever mistakes Imran Khan committed, he should he answerable to the people of Pakistan not the military dictators who are enacting a personal vengeance on him.
Also, it takes a big man to admit the mistreatment of any human is wrong even when it’s someone who doesn’t lime up with their political views. I never celebrated the maltreatment of the sharif family members when they were being targeted. L

 

[emranabbas]

I will admit this picture does move me. I may not agree with him politically but I also don't want to see him treated badly. If there is actionable evidence that he has been mistreated in prison, the perpetrators must be punished.

All of this is drama created by the PTI. Imran Khan is being properly looked after, but his party keeps using his health to score political points.

I feel sorry for Imran Khan for having such followers, but at the same time, he is the one who created these monsters

Just the other day, a woman was on a live stream crying her eyes out, claiming Imran Khan was on his last breath and that the army had killed him. She was urging people to go to Adiala Jail and carry out violent protests. Her name was Sara Mir.

Then you have people like Imran Riaz and Shahbaz Gill who are milking the situation for YouTube views and money. If Imran Khan gets a small cut on his toe, they’ll report it as if the army chopped his foot off. If he has a cough, they turn it into cancer. those 2 exaggerate everything beyond belief.

Finally, there are the UK based taxi driver freshies who believe anything thrown at them without checking facts or doing any research. They then jump onto Pakpassion and start fights with anyone who doesn’t agree with them.

Imran Khan’s followers are the reason for Imran Khan’s destruction. To be fair, I have nothing against the guy, nor was I ever into Pakistani politics. It’s his followers who forced me to hate him. Just because I praised some good things that happened in Punjab in an area where I live, they all ganged up on me. Now I hate Imran Khan with a passion just to **** them off. everything I say triggers them and i just love it

 

[emranabbas]

No one is perfect in this world and whatever mistakes Imran Khan committed, he should he answerable to the people of Pakistan not the military dictators who are enacting a personal vengeance on him.
Also, it takes a big man to admit the mistreatment of any human is wrong even when it’s someone who doesn’t lime up with their political views. I never celebrated the maltreatment of the sharif family members when they were being targeted. L

do you think Imran khan should have allowed Nawaz Sharif to meet his dying wife and should have not took the mick out of his dying wife?

 

[Bhaijaan]

How strong is Imran Khan’s other eye?

 

[Ball Blazer]

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[Cricket Warrior]

PTI founder’s health at risk, eye still 90pc affected, claims Aleema Khan

Aleema Khan, sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, has once again raised serious concerns over the former prime minister’s health and the government’s handling of his medical care, ARY News reported.

Speaking to the media, Aleema Khan said, “The health of the PTI founder is our top priority. During his last check-up, he told us that his eye has not improved.” She claimed that the government’s claims about his recovery were misleading, stating, “His eye is still 90 percent not healed, and we have yet to receive a detailed medical report.”

Aleema Khan expressed fears that the condition could affect Imran Khan’s other eye, saying, “We are worried about the possibility of his second eye being impacted.” She also demanded that Imran Khan be transferred to Shifa International Hospital for proper treatment.

PTI founder’s sister criticized the government for rejecting doctors recommended by the family and sending its own medical team to Adiala Jail. According to Aleema Khan, one of the government-appointed doctors who was originally suggested by the family, cut off communication with their own medical team, raising further concerns about transparency.

Aleema Khan also highlighted that while Bushra Bibi’s family was allowed inside the jail premises, they were not permitted to meet Imran Khan. She confirmed that senior lawyer Latif Khosa had filed a petition in the Supreme Court today following the matter.

“The government must allow independent medical access and ensure the PTI founder receives proper treatment without delay,” Aleema Khan added.

Aleema Khan questions govt, PTI leadership over Imran Khan’s treatment

Earlier, Aleema Khan, sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, criticized both the government and PTI leadership while raising concerns about her brother’s medical treatment, speaking to the media outside the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi alongside her lawyer Faisal Malik.

According to reports, Aleema Khan said that when a government begins to challenge the Constitution, it raises serious concerns about the rule of law. She stated that the PTI founder had repeatedly sent messages asking lawyers to ensure that his cases were fixed for hearings in court.

She questioned whether senators and members of the National Assembly had a responsibility to push for the hearings of the PTI founder Imran Khan’s cases. Referring to his health, Aleema said the PTI founder was facing an eye problem and added that if she were a lawyer, she would prepare throughout the night to file the necessary case.

Aleema further revealed that Gohar Ali Khan had received a call asking him to provide the names of two doctors to be sent to the jail. However, she said she insisted that doctors should not examine him in jail and that the PTI founder’s tests should instead be conducted at a hospital.

PTI founder’s health at risk, eye still 90pc affected, claims Aleema Khan

Aleema Khan raises concerns about PTI founder Imran Khan's health and the government's handling of his medical care. Read more.

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[Cricket Warrior]

Aleema Khan rejects claims of rift between PTI leadership and family

Aleema Khan, the sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, on Tuesday expressed serious concern over his health, claiming that family members and lawyers have been barred from meeting him for several months.

Speaking to the media in Rawalpindi, Aleema Khan said the family had not been allowed to meet the PTI founder since October 16, adding that both family members and legal representatives had been denied access for the past five months.

She said authorities had not provided any clear explanation for preventing the meetings, which had caused deep concern among the family.

Aleema Khan particularly raised concerns about Imran Khan’s eye condition, stating that the family had not been informed about his medical situation.

“We are very worried about his eye. No information has been shared with us,” she said, adding that doctors had already stated that adequate facilities for eye treatment were not available at PIMS.

She demanded that the PTI founder’s treatment should take place in the presence of his family members and his personal doctor.

Questioning the delay in medical care, Aleema Khan asked whether authorities wanted to risk damage to his second eye as well.

She said the family could accept restrictions on meetings but stressed that there should be no compromise on medical treatment.

Aleema Khan also rejected claims suggesting that Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and PTI leadership were on the same page regarding the matter.

She said those whose names were being associated with Mohsin Naqvi should clarify their positions themselves.

According to her, the authorities had no intention of releasing the PTI founder and were spreading different narratives to divert attention.

She also dismissed allegations by Mohsin Naqvi that the PTI leadership and the family were divided, insisting that such claims were not credible.

Aleema Khan reiterated that Imran Khan’s medical treatment was essential and said the family would not compromise on the issue.

Aleema Khan rejects claims of rift between PTI leadership and family

Aleema Khan voices concerns over Imran Khan's health as family members are denied access for months. Read more about the situation.

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[IAJ]

May Allah SWT grant him complete shifaa.

This great man has been 20 years ahead of rest of the World. He has always said that this terrorism war is not Pakistan’s war, it is someone else’s war.

And today same voices are heard in USA where people are saying this war is not USA’s war, it is someone else’s,
And we know who this is. Everything is pointing towards one group who call themselves the chosen one…

 

[BouncerGuy]

Kasim Khan and Sulaiman Khan (Sons of Imran Khan) speaking in a recent interview with Mike Atherton:

Last Saturday morning, Kasim Khan had intended to sleep in. But the builders next door started early, and the knocking woke him. Checking his phone, he saw two missed calls from Pakistan. He rushed upstairs to his brother, and together Sulaiman, 29, and Kasim, 26, finally spoke to their father, Imran Khan, for the first time since January. The conversation lasted 28 minutes.

For most people, calling parents is routine— familiar ritual we take for granted. But how do you handle a call after months of silence, not knowing when you’ll speak again, or if you’ll ever meet again, when your father is a political prisoner and his health is uncertain?

Those who know Imran won’t be surprised that his sons’ approach is to listen. “We usually start by asking how he is, but we quickly realise that he’s quite keen to give us the lessons that he wants to teach us because he feels he has learnt so much more since he has been in prison and he’s finally had time to think and gather his thoughts. So he normally tries to give us a life lesson in the first ten minutes and then we tell him what we’ve been doing with our lives,” Sulaiman says.

Kasim adds: “We asked how he is physically, but he’s quite dismissive of that stuff. He said, ‘I’m doing OK,’ and he said his eyesight is getting a little better so I took that as a positive. He was especially concerned this time about his wife; apparently her conditions are just as bad as his. He said they know they are never going to break him and he feels that he can handle anything, but when family and other people are involved, it gets tougher.”

Imran also had a message for the wider world, which Kasim shared on social media, criticising Pakistan’s judiciary and highlighting his wife’s treatment. “What they [the authorities] fear I think is public attention; they just want to keep everything quiet; keep them silently hemmed in and just slowly whittle away any kind of strength from the movement. You can see that in their petty tactics when people challenge the conditions [that Imran is in]. They try and silently remove small liberties. Like he’s not allowed any new books or they will turn off the power in the cell.”

Kasim continues: *“He’s come so far mentally and spiritually that I think in his mind he sees this as a trial he has to go through. I don’t think he’s affected in a way he would have been even, say, ten years ago. He’s in a place where he thinks if it has happened this way then that is how it has to happen, despite how harsh and brutal the conditions are and how detrimental they are to his physical well-being.

There would be these blackouts. He’d say the first two days were brutal but from then he just got into this kind of meditative state and learnt how to meditate and go inside of himself. Funnily enough these torture tactics have taught him how to stay in there for longer.”*

Imran has now been imprisoned for nearly 1,000 days, first arrested in May 2023 and later transferred to Adiala jail in September 2023. He faces multiple sentences and charges that his supporters insist are politically motivated. Concerns persist about his health, particularly his eyesight, and the lack of access for family or his personal doctor.

In July 2024, a UN Working Group declared his detention arbitrary and unlawful. Later, in December 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture urged Pakistan to address reports of inhumane conditions. Despite appeals—including one signed by 14 former Test captains—there has been no official response.

Sulaiman and Kasim, once reluctant to speak publicly, have recently become more vocal. On Wednesday, Kasim will address a UN Human Rights Council event in Geneva. They also want to visit their father but have received no reply to their visa applications submitted in January. “Our applications just haven’t been responded to. They haven’t rejected them but we applied back in January and it normally takes, what, ten days? It’s been months now,” Sulaiman says.

Officials suggested they travel using their NICOP cards, but as Jemima Khan noted online, that would mean going without the protections of British citizenship. Asked if they fear travelling, Kasim replies: “I wouldn’t say that. The issue is we just want to go in the best way possible. There is definitely a risk involved but the fear of not seeing him again is much greater than the fear of going over there.”

Reflecting on their childhood, Sulaiman admits: “I used to hate my dad being in politics when I was younger. I’d wish he’d do cricket analysis or something.” Kasim recalls: “He would, but he’d just shake his head at the quality of cricket and my bowling and just say there’s no chance. And he was right as far as my cricket was concerned. He was really present when he was around and was always giving us lessons on how to carry yourself with integrity, honour and dignity.”

Sulaiman adds: “We’d go over to Pakistan for every school holiday, and he’d treat those stays as his holidays and that would be proper quality time. We’d go on these long hikes into the mountains and that was my favourite time when we were there. He took us partridge shooting in the salt ranges, which had been his favourite thing growing up, but he could see we didn’t really have the passion for it. But that was him in his element. The mountains were his happiest place.”

Looking ahead, Kasim says: “This talk in Geneva is the most promising thing that’s happened in a while. If something can come from that, then great. But otherwise it looks a little bleak right now.”

Sulaiman adds: “And he’s not budging in any way. It would have to be a very beneficial deal where all the political prisoners were released and he was still allowed to be active in politics in some way, so I don’t see why the government would have any incentive to give him that. Obviously we want him released, but our main focus right now is to make sure he is getting proper treatment.”

On the possibility of never seeing their father again, Kasim reflects: “He’s already had a few close shaves, like when he was shot a few years ago. I wouldn’t say you ever get used to it but you build a bit of a thick skin for that kind of thing. I wouldn’t say we’ve been preparing for it but I know this is his passion and he’s said publicly I think that he’d rather die in prison than go away from his principles.”

Sulaiman recalls: “I used to hate him being in politics when I was younger. I’d wish he’d do cricket analysis or something. I remember when he had a stand-off with a politician in Karachi, a mafia sort of character. I’d beg him to get out of politics but he’d laugh it off and I basically came to realise that he wouldn’t be happy if he wasn’t doing politics or something that he felt was really impactful and risky, so I’ve got used to it as I’ve got older.”

Kasim concludes: “I remember being quite proud that he was fighting for something that he cared about. I would never want him to do anything else really, because I know how much it means to him. And people say, ‘Wouldn’t you love it if he did some deal and came to England?’ But I know he wouldn’t be able to stand up as himself if he left the other political prisoners in jail [and] spent a cosy life with us. He wouldn’t be able to function. His life is dedicated to something greater, to the people of Pakistan, trying to pull it out of poverty and rid it of corruption. I don’t think there’s anything else that would make him happy.”

 

[Rafale Nidhal Fan]

lakh lakh lanat on PDMA

this world is temporary, soon they will and their followers will reach a fate worse than they could ever imagine.

 

[Local.Dada]

Poor guy, anytime some momentum picks up on his release, some critical world event happens where everyone except his family forgets about him.

Kind of funny in a sad and ironical way.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Et Al headed to Junction Oval today for the Sheffield Shield final purely in punter capacity, looking forward to a day’s recreational cricket watching with a few mates, sundry Yarras and several subscribers. One of these was Luke Brown, a respected opponent over many years at Parkville United. Looking round for him, Et Al was surprised to learn he had been forbidden entry because of his convergent interests in cricket, human rights and merch - yes, Luke had been stopped at security for wearing Et Al’s Free Imran Khan T-shirt, deemed ‘too political.’

Regular readers will know that Pete has been all over the story of the former Pakistan captain now known as prisoner 804, banged up in solitary confinement in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail. You can check his despatches here, here and here, and also our most-watched pod: an interview with Greg Chappell about the letter he signed with a dozen international Test captains seeking adequate medical care for his great peer and rival.

One of the things we discussed are the efforts of Pakistan’s government to suppress not just the man but his image, and even the mention of his name. In Osman’s fabulous longform essay, he describes the immediate aftermath of Imran’s arrest as commencing this campaign:

One well-known anchor on ARY News used Imran’s name and then immediately checked himself and said: “I apologise … the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf.” The same channel blurred Imran out of a photo from a meeting he had with IMF officials. The most absurd contortion came from Imran’s former employers, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). When they released a video celebrating Pakistan’s greatest cricket triumphs, including footage of the side that Imran captained to victory in the 1992 World Cup, Imran had been cut out entirely – on instruction from the PCB chair (a political appointee).

Well, now Cricket Australia is on par with the freedom of speech standards of a repressive south Asian government aligned with the military. It was all quite polite, of course. The security guard who must be au fait with regional power politics stopped Luke at the gate; two staff, apparently from CA, were called down; the argument advanced was, of course, the usual slippery slope fallacy - ‘If I let you in then I have to let in etc etc’. The distinction between a political and humanitarian message was ignored; likewise the probable application of the Streisand Effect. Anyway, now that it’s officially The T-Shirt They Tried to Ban, you will want to order yours right now. Thanks to everyone who has been sending pics of themselves wearing theirs. Just don’t wear them to Junction Oval…..

Imran Khant

GH at the Junction Oval

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[BouncerGuy]

Et Al headed to Junction Oval today for the Sheffield Shield final purely in punter capacity, looking forward to a day’s recreational cricket watching with a few mates, sundry Yarras and several subscribers. One of these was Luke Brown, a respected opponent over many years at Parkville United. Looking round for him, Et Al was surprised to learn he had been forbidden entry because of his convergent interests in cricket, human rights and merch - yes, Luke had been stopped at security for wearing Et Al’s Free Imran Khan T-shirt, deemed ‘too political.’

Regular readers will know that Pete has been all over the story of the former Pakistan captain now known as prisoner 804, banged up in solitary confinement in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail. You can check his despatches here, here and here, and also our most-watched pod: an interview with Greg Chappell about the letter he signed with a dozen international Test captains seeking adequate medical care for his great peer and rival.

One of the things we discussed are the efforts of Pakistan’s government to suppress not just the man but his image, and even the mention of his name. In Osman’s fabulous longform essay, he describes the immediate aftermath of Imran’s arrest as commencing this campaign:

One well-known anchor on ARY News used Imran’s name and then immediately checked himself and said: “I apologise … the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf.” The same channel blurred Imran out of a photo from a meeting he had with IMF officials. The most absurd contortion came from Imran’s former employers, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). When they released a video celebrating Pakistan’s greatest cricket triumphs, including footage of the side that Imran captained to victory in the 1992 World Cup, Imran had been cut out entirely – on instruction from the PCB chair (a political appointee).

Well, now Cricket Australia is on par with the freedom of speech standards of a repressive south Asian government aligned with the military. It was all quite polite, of course. The security guard who must be au fait with regional power politics stopped Luke at the gate; two staff, apparently from CA, were called down; the argument advanced was, of course, the usual slippery slope fallacy - ‘If I let you in then I have to let in etc etc’. The distinction between a political and humanitarian message was ignored; likewise the probable application of the Streisand Effect. Anyway, now that it’s officially The T-Shirt They Tried to Ban, you will want to order yours right now. Thanks to everyone who has been sending pics of themselves wearing theirs. Just don’t wear them to Junction Oval…..

Imran Khant

GH at the Junction Oval

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Imran Can

Who says can you can’t fight City Hall? Updating today’s earlier post about the plight of Et Al subscriber Luke Brown, who was detained at the Junction Oval gate at today’s Sheffield Shield final and told he could not wear his Free Imran Khan T-shirt, we have news from a Cricket Australia spokesman: ‘Given the widespread concern for Imran Khan’s welfare in the cricket community, we believe this is a humanitarian matter and will act accordingly.’ Justly so. Fight the power!

Actually, today was a lovely day, as long as it lasted. I spent most of its twenty-eight tense overs with the community of watchers who cling to the fence, enjoying the rarity of cricket near enough to hear and seemingly close enough to touch. In lots of ways, the experience of first-class cricket at Junction Oval is nearer the game I played last weekend to the game at Chinnaswamy Stadium this weekend, although the standards are at variance.

From the boundary at St Kilda, you feel genuinely in the game. You hear the grunts and gasps, the footfall and glovesmack, the mutual gingering of a team in the field and the subtle steering of the umpires (‘A fraction away from you’). You’re reminded how much the quality of contact differs in the ear – middle, shoulder, inside edge, the thick muffle of bat and pad, the satisfying swift lethality of a nick followed by the soft slap of a well-held slip catch. And isn’t it funny how the intensity of an appeal is usually a guide to its outcome? Remember how the blind Wilfred Rhodes allegedly followed the game sonically?

But if you’ve played the game for a time at any level, you recognise the provenance of its sounds, don’t you?

Anyway, there was plenty of time to contemplate this in the afternoon as it absolutely chucked it down. But when I dragged myself damply home….what a time to receive a delivery that seems to have travelled half way round the world.

It’ll be getting its first outing tomorrow, and be worn with a certain swagger. Free Imran Khan!

Imran Can

GH with an update

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[Ball Blazer]

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