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Pakistan: Imran Khan’s solitary confinement and inhumane detention conditions must end, UN expert says

GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, today urged the Government of Pakistan to take immediate and effective action to address reports of inhumane and undignified detention conditions of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, warning that they could amount to torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment.

“I call on Pakistani authorities to ensure that Khan’s conditions of detention fully comply with international norms and standards,” Edwards said.

Imran Khan warns that Pakistan’s election could be a farce

By Imran Khan

TODAY PAKISTAN is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal level and provincial level. These administrations are constitutionally illegal because elections were not held within 90 days of parliamentary assemblies being dissolved.

Pakistan PM Khan: Kashmir issue ‘cannot keep boiling’

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has told the BBC that peace with India over the disputed territory of Kashmir would be “tremendous” for the wider region.

5 Takeaways from TIME’s Exclusive Interview With Ex-Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan

In the interim, Khan has survived an assassination attempt, been hit with a flurry of charges that he claims are concocted to disqualify him from reentering politics, and narrowly avoided arrest amid pitch battles between police and supporters outside his home in Lahore.

India has been taken over by a racially extremist ideology: PM Imran Khan

In an exclusive interview with DW Editor-in-Chief Ines Pohl, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan talks about Pakistan’s relationship to India, the Iran crisis and the international community’s “lukewarm” response to the Kashmir dispute.

Imran Khan ‘Could Go Blind’ if Denied Eye Treatment in Jail

Former Pakistani PM, who is in solitary confinement, is at risk of losing his sight, say supporters

Pakistan’s Imran Khan openly accuses military of trying to destroy his party

By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam

LAHORE – Pakistan’s embattled former Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the powerful military and its intelligence agency of openly trying to destroy his political party, saying he had “no doubt” he would be tried in a military court and thrown in jail.

Imran Khan warns of plan to impose 10-year dictatorship in Pakistan

Lahore: Pakistan’s incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that economic progress can never happen as long as the current “fascist system” is in place and warned that there is a plan to impose a “10-year dictatorship” in Pakistan.

Photos: Imran Khan’s journey from cricket star to popular leader

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was injured when a gunman opened fire on a political rally in Wazirabad, located in Punjab province. Officials from his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), confirmed that Khan sustained a bullet injury to his foot and is out of danger.

At the time of the attack, Imran Khan was leading a long march from Lahore toward Islamabad, calling for immediate general elections. Since his removal from office through a no-confidence vote in April, the former Prime Minister has addressed large public gatherings across the country.

Imran Khan, who served as Pakistan’s 19th prime minister after taking office in August 2018, has repeatedly claimed that his ouster was the result of a planned conspiracy.

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