Ex-PM Imran Khan healthy but cut off in Pakistan jail, sister says

Imran Khan is ‘physically well’ but ‘very angry’ about being so isolated, sibling says after visit.Published On 2 Dec 2025Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan is healthy but struggling with the largely solitary conditions in prison, his sister has said, after becoming the first family member in weeks to be allowed to visit him.Uzma Khanum, who is a doctor, gave the update on Tuesday while speaking to reporters in Rawalpindi, the city where her brother is imprisoned.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Washington, DC, shooting: Does US view 77,000 Afghans as potential threats?list 2 of 3Floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand leave more than 1,140 deadlist 3 of 3Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikesend of list“He is physically well,” Khanum said. “But he is kept inside all the time and only goes out for a short while. There is no contact with anybody.”Khanum described Khan as being “very angry” about being so isolated, saying that he deemed the resulting “mental torture” to be “worse than physical abuse”.Their brief meeting was closely supervised, and no mobile devices were allowed during it, she noted.Supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had gathered outside Adiala Jail from early on Tuesday to hear how he was.Prior to Khanum’s visit, both PTI and Khan’s family had expressed alarm that none of his relatives or associates had been allowed to see him for almost a month, with one of his sons telling Reuters last week of his fear “that something irreversible is being hidden from us”.On Tuesday, the ex-leader’s spokesperson Zulfikar Bukhari called on the authorities to allow Khan’s relatives and legal team to visit him more regularly.His family also wants his personal doctor to check up on him, something that has not happened for more than a year.Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission, an independent rights monitor, has said that it is “seriously concerned” by the reports of Khan’s detention conditions.