Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader and Punjab Housing Minister Bilal Yasin had claimed weeks ago that Suleman Khan and Qasim Khan, sons of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, are learning Urdu. 

 

“I have information that Qasim and Suleman have hired an Urdu teacher, and they are learning Urdu,” Yasin had said during a press conference held at the Director General Public Relations (DGPR) in Lahore two weeks ago.

 

Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari was also present at the press conference.

 

Yasin stated that "coming time" will tell why the boys, who have spent most of their lives in the UK, are learning Urdu, adding that Imran Khan’s sons are waiting for the time to “fool the nation”.

 

The housing minister went on to claim that Qasim and Suleman are being taught how to deliver speeches to “provoke the nation”.

 

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In May, in a rare public appearance, Imran Khan’s sons talked about their father’s incarceration for the first time.

 

Qasim uploaded a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, calling for his father’s release, writing that Imran Khan had been imprisoned for 700 days and cut off from his family and even his personal physician.

 

Imran Khan, imprisoned since August 2023, is serving a sentence at the Adiala Jail in the £190 million corruption case and also faces pending trials under the Anti-Terrorism Act related to the May 9, 2023, protests. 

 

Weeks after Bilal Yasin's presser, Imran Khan’s sister Aleema Khan told journalists that her brother intends to lead a protest movement from jail against the 26th Constitutional Amendment from August 5, marking two years of his incarceration.

 

“Imran Khan’s sons, Qasim and Sulaiman, will first go to the United States to raise awareness about the injustices faced by their father, and then they will take part in the movement being launched in Pakistan. Imran Khan has been informed about this,” she said while speaking to reporters outside Adiala Jail Rawalpindi on Tuesday.

 

She added, “People must come out for themselves, for democracy, for the rule of law, and against the 26th Amendment. Anyone who cannot bear the weight of this movement should step aside now.”