Adiala Jail: Protesting outside PTI officials and Imran Khan’s sisters rejected ever meeting with him again

Adiala Jail: After being denied the opportunity to meet with former prime minister Imran Khan at Adiala Jail once again, leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and his sisters staged a sit-in outside the jail, according to Dawn.

Despite a March 24 judgment from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) requiring Imran to be permitted to have meetings twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the rejection occurred on Tuesday.

PTI has organized sit-ins outside the prison to demand access to the party founder, some of which were previously dispersed using water cannons, and has said on several occasions that the court decision is not being followed.

Aleema Khan told the reporters that she and her sisters would stay at the location and carry on their protest.

According to Dawn, she questioned the state’s activities and denounced the authorities for preventing the family from seeing Imran.

Aleema said that the size of the gathering should not be used to gauge popular support, citing Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s recent visit to Punjab.The degree to which the Punjab administration feared Sohail Afridi and other Imran Khan supporters should be measured,” she said.”The people of Lahore demonstrated their genuine support for Imran Khan by blocking all roads, food streets, and other areas,” Aleema said.

She expressed regret that officials were still blocking a meeting with the PTI founder.

In response to a query, Aleema said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had extended the invitation and that Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) had not approached the government for negotiations.We are on the way, nevertheless, as instructed by Imran Khan, who gave Sohail Afridi the order to begin making plans for a movement,” she said.

She continued by saying that she and her sisters will continue to insist on seeing their brother.

According to Dawn, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan voiced his worry that despite court orders, meetings with Imran were being refused.

That a political party had to ask for permission to meet with its own chairman, he argued, was regrettable.

Regarding the issue of dialogue, Gohar said that although discussions were possible, preparations for a protest movement would go on concurrently.Conversation is urgently needed, but it isn’t happening,” he said.

The weekly duty to stand outside the prison was deemed “unjustified” by him.Political tensions inside the nation persist notwithstanding the declaration of a truce with the foreign adversary,” Gohar said.

Salman Akram Raja, the secretary general of the PTI, said that Imran had been put “in solitary confinement” and asserted that it was a basic human right for inmates to see their relatives.

Party officials, he added, will continue to visit the prison to show their support and protest even though they knew the meeting would probably not be permitted.

Dawn said that Raja responded to a query by saying that the administration “were not showing any seriousness” and that discussions with them were pointless given the present situation.

In connection with a £190 million corruption case, Imran has been incarcerated since August 2023 and is now serving his term in Adiala Jail.

In connection with the May 9, 2023 demonstrations, he is also subject to charges under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Concerns over Imran’s and his wife’s health have been voiced by the PTI on many occasions.

In an interview on December 1, his son Kasim Khan expressed his concern that officials were concealing “something irreversible” about his father’s illness.

However, Dawn reported that on December 2, Uzma Khanum, Imran’s sister, said that her brother was “perfectly fine” after her permission to see him.Imran Khan is in excellent health. But he was furious and said that they were torturing his mind,” she stated.

Uzma went on to say that Imran was only permitted to spend a little amount of time outdoors and spent the most of the day in his cell.

She said that their encounter lasted around half an hour and that he was not in touch with anybody.

A UN special rapporteur earlier this month called on Pakistani authorities to follow international norms and cautioned that Imran was being detained in circumstances that would constitute cruel or degrading treatment.

PTI responded to the study by claiming it revealed its founder’s “degrading treatment” and constituted a “blatant violation of international law and fundamental human rights.”

Aleema Khan and PTI supporters broke up a sit-in at Factory Naka in Rawalpindi last week, only hours after they were once again prevented from going to Adiala Jail to visit the imprisoned former prime minister.