Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has instructed party leaders to start preparations for the launch of an anti-government movement after the 10th of Muharram.

This was stated by PTI founder’s sister Aleema Khan while talking to the media outside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.

Aleema revealed that she and her sisters were allowed only a 15-minute meeting with Imran Khan, while lawyer Zaheer Abbas was given merely 90 seconds.

Prominent lawyers, including Salman Safdar, Salman Akram Raja, and Niazullah Niazi, were denied visitation, she claimed.

Aleema said efforts were being made to “minus” the PTI founder from the political landscape.

She quoted Imran Khan as criticising the 26th Constitutional Amendment, warning that its consequences are now evident.

“If votes are stolen and people are told votes hold no value, then it’s nothing short of martial law,” she quoted the PTI founder as saying.

Turning the judiciary into another government department and treating judges unjustly is tantamount to the collapse of the rule of law and morality, she quoted her brother as saying.

According to Aleema, Imran Khan said that those sitting in assemblies did not have public mandate, media voices have been silenced, and the proposed 27th Amendment is a step toward authoritarianism.

“We might as well declare monarchy,” she quoted the PTI founder as saying, adding that Khan lamented that the voices of the people have been suppressed.

According to Aleema, Khan said Pakistan was created in the name of the Kalima, and it is this foundation that still holds the country together. “Being jailed for life would be better than living in this ‘slavery-like’ system,” she quoted the PTI founder as saying.

She said that Khan praised the opposition’s resistance in the Punjab Assembly and called on party lawmakers to hold parallel assemblies outside the official ones, especially as 26 PTI members face restrictions.

Aleema said the PTI founder has shared a strategy for the post-Muharram protest with party leadership, through Salman Akram Raja.

Aleema further alleged that the PTI founder is being held in solitary confinement and denied basic rights, including access to books.

“He is locked up for 22 hours a day and allowed out for only two,” she said, adding that the party will announce its protest plan after the 10th of Muharram.