Imran Khan Alleges Army Chief Munir Targeted Wife Bushra Bibi For Personal Vengeance

Last Updated:June 04, 2025, 11:30 IST

Khan, who has been in jail since mid-2023 in connection with multiple cases, alleged that his wife’s treatment in jail was unprecedented.

Imran Khan also alleged that his repeated requests to meet his wife were denied. (IMAGE: REUTERS/AFP)

Incarcerated former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused Army Chief Asim Munir of targeting his wife, Bushra Bibi, out of personal vendetta after being removed from the post of ISI chief during Khan’s tenure.

“As Prime Minister, when I removed General Asim Munir from the post of DG ISI, he sought to approach my wife Bushra Bibi through intermediaries to discuss the matter," Khan said in a post on X on Monday.

“Bushra Bibi categorically declined, saying that she had no involvement with such affairs and would not meet him. It is General Asim Munir’s vindictive nature that is behind Bushra Bibi’s unjust 14-month incarceration and deplorable inhumane treatment in prison."

Khan, who has been in jail since mid-2023 in connection with multiple cases, alleged that his wife’s treatment in jail was unprecedented. “The way my wife has been targeted for personal vengeance is unprecedented. Even during Pakistan’s darkest periods of dictatorship such a thing never happened," he said. “She was accused of aiding and abetting, an allegation for which no proof has ever been presented, and she is arrested in one false case after another."

Calling her a private citizen and homemaker with no political involvement, Khan said he hasn’t been allowed to meet her in the last four weeks. “According to jail regulations, I was scheduled to meet her on June 1 but even that meeting was denied, in complete violation of court orders," he said.

He also linked the events of May 9, 2023 — when military installations were attacked during protests following his arrest — to what he called a “London Plan." “The sole purpose was to eliminate Pakistan’s largest political force, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf," Khan alleged.

“Under this premeditated plan, I and several of my party leaders and workers were unlawfully imprisoned. Our democratic mandate was brazenly stolen, and corrupt individuals — Sharifs and Zardaris — were imposed upon the nation," he said, accusing the ruling coalition of unleashing “relentless fascist oppression."

The PTI chief also alleged judicial complicity in the crackdown against his party. “Despite repeated demands, they refuse to summon or examine the stolen CCTV footage from May 9, 2023… Our people are being sentenced without evidence and without the right to a fair trial."

Khan has called for a judicial commission to investigate what he described as the “massacres" of May 9 and November 26, 2024, and slammed Pakistan’s judiciary as being “driven not by justice but by a desire to protect their own jobs and privileges."

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