India, July 19 -- Sources with knowledge of the circumstances in which the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, languishes have given details about the travail he is going through. Imagine an aged, undernourished individual spending much of the 24 hours allotted to him by the clock in a gloomy cell. The lack of proper lighting is double cruel because Imran has lost 90% of sight in one of his eyes and 30% in the other. He navigates his way by groping around what may turn out to be his tomb, his cell in a prison in Pakistan.

The ill-treatment of Imran Khan by a regime controlled by Field Marshal Asim Munir resembles the most dystopian nightmares of storytellers. Basking in the support from both CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping an...