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Targeting of Imran Khan’s family continues as Punjab police pick up another nephew of the jailed leader

August 23, 2025

By Irum Saleem

  Punjab police add another nephew of  incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan in their arrest list. And reason is nothing unusual  — May 9, 2023 riots.

     Shahrez Khan and Shershah Khan — sons of Aleema Khan — have been dramatically  for their involvement in the May 9 riots, interestingly two after the incidents happened. Isn’t it a unique thing in Pakistan.

     Shahrez was arrested on Thursday during a raid at his house in Lahore while Shershah was nabbed on way to his home on Friday afternoon.

    The Lahore anti-terrorism court (ATC) remanded Shahrez on an eight-day physical remand into police custody.

   The investigating officer told the ATC hat Shahrez was arrested in relation to the Jinnah House attack on May 9. He

    Shahrez’s counsel Salman Akram Raja argued that his client had never been named in the case, branding the arrest an act of “harassment” as he (Sheraz) was not in Lahore during May 9 riots as he was in Chitral. “Shahrez had never been arrested before, despite being in the country for 27 months. The move is a reaction to the approval of Imran’s bail pleas,” he said.

   Talking to reporters Raja said this is a message to the nation that there is no law in this country. “This is madness and a well-thought-out conspiracy. We have to stand with the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and his family.”

     On Thursday, the Supreme Court accepted Imran Khan’s bail petitions in eight cases related to the May 9 riots. The PTI patron-in-chief has been imprisoned at the Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, since August 2023 in multiple cases.

     Aleema Khan, Imran Khan’s sister, has been openly criticizing the military establishment.

       Earlier, Aleema Khan told the media that Imran Khan asked his party members to hold Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir accountable if anything happens to him in jail.

  Lambasting on the arrest of her two sons, Aleema Khan said: “Last night, several plainclothes armed men stormed my residence in Lahore. They brutally assaulted our staff, harassed my daughter-in-law, and forcibly took away my son, Shahrez Khan, in front of his two young daughters.”

    For over three years, she said this fascist regime in Pakistan has unleashed a reign of terror, raiding thousands of homes, abducting and harassing countless innocent civilians. Yet, despite their brutality, they have failed to break Imran Khan.

      “Our children understand that the struggle Imran Khan is leading is far greater than any one of us. He has set a remarkable standard of resilience against tyranny. These cowardly actions only expose the fear and desperation of the oppressors. We place our trust in Allah alone, seeking His protection and justice,” Aleema Khan said.

    Imran’s other nephew Hassan Niazi is convicted by the military court in case related to May 9, 2023 riots in which military and state buildings were attacked following the arrest of Imran Khan.

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