Jemima Goldsmith, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ex-wife, on Tuesday rebuked the Shehbaz Sharif-led authorities, stating she has been “bullied and harassed into silence by Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) goons.” She expressed concern for Khan, who’s presently imprisoned in Rawalpindi and referred to as for his rapid launch, a “critical and regarding growth” relating to his therapy in jail.
Goldsmith mentioned that the Pakistani authorities have stopped all household and lawyer visits to Imran Khan and postponed all courtroom hearings. Regardless of a courtroom order, his weekly calls to his sons, Sulaiman and Kasim, who reside in London, had been reduce off on September tenth, she added.
“We’ve acquired experiences that the authorities have now turned off the lights and electrical energy in his cell and he’s not allowed to depart his cell at any time. The jail cook dinner has been despatched on depart. He’s now fully remoted, in solitary confinement, actually at midnight, with no contact with the skin world,” Goldsmith mentioned in a publish on X.
Her allegations and enchantment had been made in a prolonged publish on X, at a time when Pakistan is internet hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Authorities summit on Wednesday.
Khan, 72, founding father of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has been imprisoned in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail for over a yr in reference to greater than 200 authorized circumstances stemming from his ousting in a parliamentary no-confidence vote he alleges was deliberate by the army.
Goldsmith additionally mentioned that in June this yr, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared Imran’s detention illegal and referred to as for his rapid launch.
She mentioned, “As a matter of urgency , we’re calling for Imran Khan’s launch, and for the discharge of his sisters and nephew in addition to for his sons’ contact with their father to be re-established, in order that they could have assurance first-hand that he’s properly and never being mistreated.”
Goldsmith added that Khan’s household and PTI members have additionally been focused, along with his sisters and nephew unlawfully arrested, whereas she acquired rape threats from her ex-husband’s political opponents.
“I often don’t touch upon Pakistani politics. I disagree with IK on many political points. However this isn’t about politics- it’s about my youngsters’s father, his human rights & worldwide regulation,” Goldsmith mentioned.
Goldsmith was a detailed buddy of Diana, Princess of Wales, who visited her in Lahore in 1996. She married retired cricketer Imran Khan in 1995; he later turned Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2018 to 2022. They’d two sons collectively earlier than divorcing in 2004.
