PTI leader Sardar Latif Khosa, delivered a letter from the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan to the president of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi on Thursday and raised concerns about the ongoing cases, prison conditions and judicial practices, Latif Khosa said.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Khosa said the CJP “listened calmly” while detailed the lack of hearings in cases related to PTI and the “extraction” of the evidence. He described the founder of PTI as detained in a cell of 9 by 11 feet and said that both the founder and his wife faced difficulties in jail.
Khosa said he informed the CJP about private meetings with family members and shared contributions on prison reforms, noting that the founder of PTI was asked to provide written suggestions.
The president of the Supreme Court, he added, promised to create a uniform policy on prison conditions and affirmed his oath to maintain fundamental rights.
Khosa also criticized the invasive searches of lawyers in the courts and described the “agitation” in the Superior Court. He said he remembered the President of the Supreme Court that, as “father of the Judiciary,” must fulfill his responsibilities within the constitutional limits.
Early on the day, Aleema Khan entered the Supreme Court (SC) with an Charity of the PTI prison founder. “We want to deliver the letter from the founder of PTI to the president of the Supreme Court,” said lawyer Latif Khosa. The police arrested her, stating that permission was required to proceed beyond that point: the sisters of Imran Khan did not have.
The letter was a plea for the president of the Supreme Court, an appeal to “maintain the oath of his position and show the people that the Supreme Court of Pakistan remains his last refuge of justice.”
Imran details the conditions in which more than 772 days has passed, due to more than 300 cases presented against him. His first complaint is the way he has been sentenced to ostracism, mentioning how his children cannot visit him or talk to him on the phone.
He expresses his concerns regarding the imprisonment of his wife, Bushra Bibi, claiming that her only crime is that “she is my wife.” Khan details the solitary circumstances of the imprisonment of Bushra Bibi, how all the verticals of communications have eliminated him.
The deteriorated nature of its health occurs, and the injustice that surrounds it. “Your doctor is forbidden to examine it, much less provide any treatment. The Pakistani law expressly grants women special concessions for bond, only due to their gender.”
Multiple reports have played the nature of Bushra Bibi’s complaints. A report was published in April of this year that details the conditions of the Bushra Bibi imprisonment prison. The report declared that Bushra Bibi receives regular health monitoring and has access to a cooking space dedicated inside the prison.
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The imprisonment of PTI workers after the protests on May 9 has established a controversial reputation for themselves. Not only because of the way in which the trials have been carried out, with the recently established practice of judging civilians in military courts, but also because of the nature of the way arrests continued.
In December 2024, without assigning any legal reasoning, the Constitutional Bank (CB) of the Supreme Court had conditionally allowed military courts to announce their verdicts in 85 cases of civilians who are in the custody of the Army for charges of attacking military facilities on May 9, 2023.
Imran challenges the conditions under which arrests were made: “Many were kidnapped, beaten and subjected to military judgments in flagrant violation of constitutional protections.”
Imran lists the cases and prayers of family members that he believes that demonstrates the “unprecedented victimization of my family.” The incident of the arrest of lawyer Hassan Niazi, his 10 -year sentence made an example. Imran’s sisters, who have been reserved in dozens of cases and their nephews Shahrez and Shershah, who are currently in prison, provide evidence.
The 26th Constitutional Amendment
One of the moving comments from Imran’s letters is its detailed objection to the 26th constitutional amendment, which Imran believes that “it has been used as a tool to sanctify this electoral dacity, while the requests challenged are not known in their court.”
The 26th amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, promulgated in October 2024, introduced significant changes in the structure of the Judiciary and the appointment processes.
In particular, he altered the selection method for the president of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, changing this responsibility for a system based on seniority to a nomination for a special parliamentary committee among the three most important judges of the Supreme Court, with a fixed three -year period.
The supporters of the amendment, including the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, argue that these changes are necessary to curb judicial overreach and restore the balance between the government branches.
They claim that past judicial decisions have undermined democratic processes, and this amendment seeks to strengthen parliamentary sovereignty.
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The opposition parties, particularly the Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI), have described the amendment as an effort to weaken the judiciary.
They argue that it allows the Executive to exert an undue influence on the Judiciary, compromising their ability to act as a control over government power. The PTI criticized the passage of the amendment, calling it a “black day” in the constitutional history of Pakistan.
The founder of PTI raised concerns regarding the management of the Case of the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC), Sarfraz Dogar, the management of the Imran case. Imran accused the judge to “deliberately refuse my requests for the al-Qadir trust and the requests for Toshakhana reviews.”
Imran’s letter adopts a gloomy tone when it refers to the case of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, remembering the reader of the verdict by the Supreme Court in 2024, declaring “that the requirements of just trial and due process were not met. Justice in its deepest sense must occur in real time, the Pyrrhic Justice 44 years later.”
The letter concludes with the demands of the petitioners: “Allow the telephone calls to my children as ordered by the Manaua prison. I will access the Bushra Bibi doctor for medical treatment and, ultimately, restore the judicial independence of the Judiciary in Pakistan.”
