Jail Administration Finally Authorizes Visits for Person After Repeated Denials
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 jail administration is allowing Imran’s sister Uzma Khanum to visit him after repeated refusals despite court orders granting visiting rights to party leaders and their family members. Uzma’s 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 door 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 check post, accompanied by lawyer Salman Akram Raja and a large number of party supporters. However, the prison administration allowed visitation rights to only one person. Prison authorities have restored visits after 29 days.
The Islamabad Capital Territory administration and Rawalpindi district administration imposed Section 144 in all cities on Monday after the PTI announced a protest outside Adiala Jail and Islamabad High Court on Tuesday (today).
In a move to show solidarity with the ongoing protests, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi had ordered all members of the provincial assembly to travel to Islamabad immediately. Sources said the directive was issued after a meeting of the provincial cabinet. “All members of the assembly must arrive in Islamabad tonight,” Afridi said, confirming that 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. “What path do I have left to meet my leader?” he asked, adding that despite a court order, neither he nor other PTI leaders had been allowed access to the party’s jailed founding president.
Afridi also recalled earlier incidents in which the founder’s sisters were detained on Adiala Road, alleging that they had been humiliated. “All this is being done to bankrupt the founder. Bushra Bibi is in the spotlight,” he said. He stated that in the past, “those who fled to London” received dozens of visitors within the same facilities.
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The party has lamented that meeting its jailed leader has become an ordeal, with even its lawyers, family members and associates denied access to the “isolated” leader for a “two-minute” “apolitical” meeting on health.
Aleema moves the 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 against the backdrop of escalating tensions outside Adiala Jail, where KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and a group of PTI legislators had staged a late-night 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 gatherings has become a systematic policy of political punishment, despite clear judicial instructions.
The petition names Adiala Jail Superintendent Abdul Ghafoor Anjum, Saddar Beroni Station House Officer Raja Aizaz Azeem, Federal Home Secretary Captain (retd) Muhammad Khurram Agha and Punjab Home Department Secretary Noorul Amin as respondents.
Earlier, Aleema Khan and CM Afridi approached the IHC seeking a hearing with the court’s chief judge.
Speaking to the media outside the court, Afridi said they had been informed that the Chief Justice “did not want to meet them”.
