Islamabad, March 27 – Terming his father, Imran Khan, the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, being detained as "arbitrary," Kasim Khan has raised serious concerns at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session in Geneva over the Pakistani authorities' treatment, which he says violates international human rights conventions.
During the UNHRC session, Kasim Khan stated that Imran Khan's case was not an "isolated incident," but rather the "most visible example" of a much wider pattern of repression in Pakistan since 2022. He spoke about the detention of political prisoners, trials and convictions of civilians by military courts, and journalists being "silenced, abducted, or forced into exile," as reported by Dawn, Pakistan's leading daily.
Kasim Khan, who stated that his father was being held in solitary confinement, also discussed the general elections held in Pakistan in February 2024, reiterating