Imran Khan Accuses Judiciary of Wife's Jail Mistreatment

Imran Khan, Pakistan's jailed former prime minister and founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, accused the country's judiciary of enabling the inhumane treatment of his wife, Bushra Bibi, during a rare phone call with his son Kasim Khan over the Eid holiday weekend in late March 2026. Speaking from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Khan claimed the isolation of his wife was a deliberate tactic to pressure him politically.

Khan described Bibi's conditions as intolerable, stating she spends 24 hours a day in near-total isolation, with only 30 minutes of weekly contact with him that is frequently denied by prison authorities. "The judges in this country should be ashamed of themselves. Time and again we have gone to the judiciary but they have sold their souls for personal gain. They have sold their integrity. They know they cannot break me, so they turn to my wife," Khan said in the conversation, which Kasim shared on social media. He further condemned the treatment as un-Islamic, arguing it targeted women to achieve ulterior motives, and held the judiciary responsible for upholding justice in society.

Both Khan and Bibi have been held at the high-security Adiala Jail since...