- Imran is not allowed to talk to his sons, says Aleema.
- The prison authorities have “denied” to give him books as well.
- Waqa’s Akram says preparations are complete for nationwide protests.
Aleema Khan, sister of the prison Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan said Friday that the party’s patron-in-chief had ordered the party to begin its movement against the government after the 10th of Muharram.
She spoke to media outside an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi and conveyed the PTI founder’s message and said he said it would be better to establish a “monarchy” instead of implementing the 27th amendment.
The message came days after the Supreme Court refused the party’s reserved seats for minorities and women in parliament.
On June 27, SC’s constitutional bench gave up that PTI was not entitled to reserved seats in the national and provincial assemblies.
Meanwhile, the government has warned PTI against creating anarchy in the name of protest and emphasizing that staging peaceful demonstrations was their constitutional right, but violence could not be allowed.
Aleema said that a plan has already been prepared for the movement, while the PTI founder has called on the masses to “come out for their freedom”. Imran has repeated his attitude that “prison is better than slavery,” she maintained.
Imran’s sister also claimed that her brother was facing harsh conditions in prison and said his experience is unimaginable to his opponents.
She claimed that the PTI founder spends 22 hours a day in a cell and is only allowed for two hours. “All prison facilities for the PTI founder are completed,” she claimed, adding that he is not allowed to talk to his children or access books.
In contrast, she made a comparison with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whose meals, she said, was delivered from home and who received hundreds of visitors.
She also said that Nawaz and his daughter were stored in “a rest house” with all available facilities.
On the other hand, Aleema said, Imran has not been allowed to talk to his sons for the past six months. “This continued denial is both inhumane and illegal,” she wrote in a tweet.
While IMRAN, for the past eight months, as the leader of the largest political party in Pakistan, has also been excluded from meeting his party members, she said, adding that it constituted his constitutional right to political consultation and leadership.
Meanwhile, PTI-spokesman Sheikh Waqas Akram said his party first postponed the nationwide protests due to the Iran-Israel war, it delayed it out of respect for Muharram days.
“The preparations of the party’s all provincial presidents are complete,” he said, talking to Pakinomist News.
In the first phase, demonstrations are held in provinces and districts, the PTI spokesman said.
To an inquiry, he said the party workers should not be exposed to live bullets.
“When the first ball was fired, the PTI founder won,” he said.
To another query that relates to CP chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s statement that he would bring weapons to the protest, Akram said Gandapur spoke of self-defense. “What the minister thought was that everyone is entitled to self -defense,” he added.
The PTI speaker also said the PTI founder had instructed Gandapur to lead the protest.
