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Imran Khan
Former prime minister, founder of the PTI, and the most divisive figure in Pakistani politics, in prison since August 2023.
The essentials
Imran Khan captained Pakistan to the 1992 Cricket World Cup, founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 1996 and became prime minister after the 2018 general election. In April 2022 he became the first Pakistani prime minister to be removed by a vote of no confidence in parliament.
His arrest on 9 May 2023 set off riots in which military installations were attacked. He has been in custody since August 2023, held at Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, and in January 2025 he was sentenced to 14 years in prison in the Al-Qadir Trust case. He and his party call the cases political; the government says the courts are doing their work.
- Born
- 5 October 1952, Lahore
- Party
- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (founder)
- Prime minister
- August 2018 to April 2022
- Now
- In Adiala jail, Rawalpindi
The latest
October 2026
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28 Oct
NATIONAL
Court issues arrest warrants for suspended KP chief minister Sohail Afridi over May 9 Radio Pakistan attack
Former ministers Taimur Jhagra and Kamran Bangash are also named, as prosecutors cite forensic analysis of footage from the 2023 arson.
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28 Oct
NATIONAL
Imran Khan’s sister Noreen Niazi hospitalised with high blood pressure after weeks in detention
The 70-year-old, held without charge with her two sisters since September under public-order law, was moved from Kot Lakhpat jail to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.
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28 Oct
NATIONAL
Imran Khan could be moved from Adiala to Islamabad’s new Model Jail, Naqvi hints
“Whosoever is a prisoner of Islamabad will be shifted here,” the interior minister said, as jail sources point to a late-November move for the PTI founder.
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28 Oct
NATIONAL
Hammad Azhar sent to jail after court refuses police more custody for polygraph test in May 9 case
The anti-terrorism court ended the PTI leader’s 50 days in police custody after his lawyer argued a lie-detector test needs his consent.
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28 Oct
NATIONAL
PM Shehbaz deposited over three dozen gifts in Toshakhana, including 1kg of Kyrgyz gold, record shows
The Cabinet Division list also shows seven gifts for President Zardari, as new rules require every Toshakhana gift to be sold at open auction.
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22 Oct
NATIONAL
Shehbaz vows to ‘leave no stone unturned’ restoring progress to KP, assails PTI ‘callousness’
Chairing a security meeting in Peshawar, the prime minister accused the outgoing PTI government of letting militants return to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and vowed to restore the province’s progress.
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21 Oct
NATIONAL
Khawaja Asif brands PTI overseas YouTubers its own ‘biggest enemies’
The defence minister said PTI’s champions abroad were “printing money” and earning dollars from the ordeal of the very leader they swear by, while the party at home pays for their posts.
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19 Oct
OPINION
Rethinking Musharraf
I grew up in a PML-N house where the general was the villain of every story. Fifteen years on, I've stopped believing it.
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18 Oct
OPINION
Fazl’s quarrel with the establishment: principle, or political exclusion?
He spent a career negotiating at the table of power. Now, locked out of the room, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has begun to sound like the man he helped remove.
September 2026
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19 Sep
ANALYSIS
Boris Johnson has lost it on Imran Khan
Pakistan's courts are already ordering what Johnson demands. The man who slashed Britain's aid to Pakistan now wants to use "our leverage" to overrule its courts. Everything else in his Daily Mail column is wrong, half-told or left out.
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14 Sep
NEWSROOM
Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith marries Cameron O’Reilly
Jemima Goldsmith, Imran Khan's ex-wife, has married Irish-Australian financier Cameron O'Reilly in a private ceremony, more than two decades after her divorce from the former Pakistani PM.
August 2026
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21 Aug
EDITORIAL
A prisoner in his own inner citadel
Imran Khan’s sister says he is fit, with normal blood pressure and improved eyesight. Official records document specialist treatment and family access. Yet the international narrative remains one of isolation and medical crisis. The record versus the rhetoric.
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20 Aug
ANALYSIS
Imran Khan’s close aide quietly retires his defiance myth
Zulfikar Bukhari's remarks to Reuters, describing a freed Imran Khan as unwilling to confront army chief Asim Munir, don't just shift PTI's tone. Coming from one of Khan's closest aides, they quietly kill the "dut kar khara hai kaptaan" promise that has held the party's base together for two years.
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18 Aug
NEWSROOM
Supreme Court directs transfer of Imran Khan to Shifa International Hospital
The Supreme Court has ordered the transfer of Imran Khan from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital for medical assessment and treatment, while directing that his health condition should not be used for political activity or media campaigning.
May 2026
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3 May
NEWSROOM
Jemima Goldsmith finds love again with Irish financier Cameron O’Reilly
Jemima Goldsmith is reportedly engaged to Irish financier Cameron O’Reilly after a relationship that began through film and documentary circles, marking a quieter new chapter after years of public attention around her marriage to Imran Khan and relationship with Hugh Grant.
April 2026
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19 Apr
NEWSROOM
Imran Khan predicted Islamabad Talks in 2002, claims Sohail Afridi
Sohail Afridi, the Chief Minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has claimed that Imran Khan first proposed the peace talks now unfolding in Pakistan as far back as 2002, adding a new burst of controversy to the country’s already charged political landscape.
February 2026
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24 Feb
NEWSROOM
Imran Khan gets specialist eye treatment per Supreme Court oversight
Imran Khan was transported from Adiala Jail to PIMS for his second anti-VEGF eye injection after being declared clinically stable by a specialist medical board, with the Supreme Court, jail authorities and the federal government ensuring coordinated, high-standard healthcare provision.
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19 Feb
NEWSROOM
No deal offered to Imran Khan, relief lies only in courts, establishment sources
Senior establishment sources deny any backchannel deal with Imran Khan, stating his only recourse lies in courts through constitutional and legal processes, not political negotiation or pressure tactics.
January 2026
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31 Jan
EDITORIAL
We can finally be proud
Davos was not a redemption arc but a stress test. Pakistan did not arrive seeking applause or indulgence, but to demonstrate whether discipline could finally replace denial. What mattered was constraint—and the recognition that the old escape routes no longer exist.
