In Pakistan’s fraught political history, there is a recurring specter that haunts every democratic aspiration: the unyielding dominance of the military establishment, a “mercenary cartel" that has, for 78 years, held civilian leadership and national potential hostage. Today, as Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan remains isolated behind bars and his sister Aleema Khan faces mounting threats, the echoes of the past—the struggles of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his sister Fatima Jinnah—resound with an eerie familiarity.

Following the arrest and continued incarceration of Imran Khan, voices of resistance have grown louder, none more poignant than that of his sister Aleema Khan. After a recent meeting at Adiala Jail, her account was both intimate and defiant. “It doesn’t matter to me where I am shifted; I stand for an ideology, and I will do whatever it takes for it," Imran Khan told her when she relayed that a transfer to another facility was being prepared. This is not simply personal fortitude; it is a reaffirmation of belief that transcends physical confines.

Aleema echoed this resilience—“Even if they give me a sentence of ten, twelve, or fifty years, it won’t make a difference because the public has now seen their true face." Her words are a........

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