'No embargo': Pak refutes visit restrictions on Imran's sons; promises visa approval

NEW DELHI: The Pakistan authorities connected Saturday clarified that determination is "no embargo" connected erstwhile premier curate Imran Khan's sons gathering their incarcerated begetter if they question to the country.

The authorities authoritative besides said the brothers would beryllium granted Pakistani visas should they privation to travel and sojourn him.The connection came aft reports suggested that authorities had imposed unannounced restrictions connected visits to Imran Khan, claiming that immoderate visitors were utilizing the meetings to beforehand governmental agendas. Following these reports, members of his household and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) expressed interest astir the conditions successful which helium is being held."There has been nary embargo connected Suleman Khan and Kasim Khan to conscionable their father, Imran Khan, astatine Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi," Interior authorities curate Talal Chaudhry told reporters.Suleman and Kasim, who presently unrecorded successful London, are Khan’s sons from his archetypal matrimony to British TV property Jemima Goldsmith.Chaudhry’s clarification comes days aft the brothers told Sky News they fearfulness they whitethorn ne'er spot their jailed begetter again.

The brothers said they person not seen oregon spoken to the PTI founder, imprisoned since August 2023, for months, and voiced concerns astir his information and well-being.“If Suleman and Kasim use for a Pakistani visa, we volition springiness them. We volition not halt them from gathering their father; therefore, the propaganda that the Pakistani authorities is creating hurdles successful the gathering betwixt begetter and sons should beryllium stopped,” Chaudhry said.He besides rejected reports that Khan is being kept successful solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.In their interview, the brothers alleged that their begetter is being held successful isolation, calling the conditions “clear torture tactics.”Khan, who has been successful jailhouse since August 2023, faces aggregate cases filed against him since his ouster from powerfulness successful April 2022.A United Nations peculiar rapporteur has besides warned that Khan is being held successful conditions that whitethorn magnitude to inhuman oregon degrading treatment.In the interview, Kasim claimed Khan is confined to a compartment measuring “six feet by 8 inches,” hardly ample capable to stand.“They are not adjacent allowing guards to talk to him due to the fact that they privation full isolation from immoderate different person, conscionable to effort and interruption him. So it’s each precise wide torture tactics,” helium said.