Islamabad:
Jemima Goldsmith, the ex -wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, accused the Pakistani government of shelter personal revenge against his children, a strongly rejected claim by a high -level legislator of the ruling party on Thursday.
Imran, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI), has been imprisoned in the Adial prison in Rawalpindi since August 2023. He had announced that the party would launch a protest movement against the government after Ashura-E-Muharram, which was observed on Sunday.
This week, Imran’s sister, Aleema Khan, had said that the children of Imran, Suleman Khan and Kasim Khan would join the protest movement. However, the prime minister’s political affairs advisor, Rana Sanaullah, warned later that Khan’s children would be arrested if they joined the protest in Pakistan.
Goldsmith published in X that Imran had been in lone confinement in prison for almost two years and preventing their children from talking to their father and threatened to arrest them if they tried to visit him, equivalent to “personal vendetta.”
“My children can’t speak with their father Imran Khan,” he said. “The Pakistan government has now said that if they go there to try to see it, they will also be arrested and placed behind bars. This does not happen in a democracy or in a functional state. This is not political. It is a personal revenge.”
In reaction to the comments, the leader of the Pakistan-Nawaz Muslim League (PML-N), Senator Irfan Siddiqui, told a private news channel that Imran’s release from the prison did not depend on his children or sisters, but on his own behavior.
“If Imran Khan’s children want to come to Pakistan and do politics, they should come. If they direct a movement within the scope of the law, no one will have any objection. [But] His release is not possible for his children or sisters, but this matter depends completely on their own behavior, “he said.
“If Imran Khan wants to bring his children to politics and if they carry out activities in accordance with the law, they have the right to do so,” he said, adding that issues such as prisons liberations were not decided due to political pressure or family influence, but by law.
