Islamabad, December 10, 2025: Prime Minister’s Coordinator for Information and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Affairs Ikhtiar Wali Khan on Wednesday said the federal government was considering shifting incarcerated PTI founder and former prime minister Imran Khan from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail to a prison in another province, citing repeated protests by his supporters outside the facility.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Wali claimed that daily demonstrations by PTI workers had caused inconvenience for residents in the surrounding areas. He further alleged that PTI’s own leadership wanted “prisoner number 804” to be transferred out of Punjab for political reasons.
“Under the guise of protest, they are spreading chaos and disorder,” he said, accusing the party of pursuing a destabilising agenda. He alleged that PTI activists were deliberately creating circumstances aimed at forcing the authorities to move Imran Khan to another province.
The coordinator also levelled serious allegations against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, accusing it of colluding with militant elements and acting as a “facilitator.” He claimed that vehicles belonging to two KP ministers had been impounded in drug-related cases and alleged that narcotics were “openly traded,” even in the home district of the chief minister.
Wali said that “all doors of negotiation” with the PTI founder had been closed. “Even a local councillor in Rawalpindi is not willing to talk to them,” he remarked, adding that a clear line must now be drawn “between those who stand with Pakistan and those who act against it.”
“They attacked the federation and now want to become political martyrs,” he alleged.
His remarks come a week after Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry condemned what he described as “poisonous propaganda” against the Pakistan Army, attributing it to a “mentally unstable individual” and his associates.
The military spokesperson had questioned whether critics of the army were attempting to create “space for some other power or force,” asserting that such individuals believed the country’s politics revolved solely around them. He added that the individual in question considered the system corrupt or unjust whenever he was out of power, describing this behaviour as delusional and harmful to national stability.
