Rawalpindi:
Close family members of Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf founder Imran Khan, together with party activists and supporters, were briefly detained and later released Tuesday after protesting against the denial of their meeting with him in Adiala prison.
Among the detainees were Imran’s sister Aleema Khan, his cousin Qasim Niazi, PTI Punjab -Leader Alia Hamza and Sunni Intehad Council (Sic) Chief Hamid Raza and others. Protesters staged a sit-in where some PTI activists engaged in stone pelvis.
Adiala Prison Administration and Punjab -Information Minister Azma Bokhari rejected the PTI leaders’ claims and called them direct lies. They said the family and lawyers were allowed to meet Imran Khan with his wife, Bushra Bibi, according to the planned plan.
According to the schedule, Imran is expected to meet with his lawyers and family every Tuesday. Tensions escalated when three of IMRAN’s sisters, his cousin Qasim Niazi, Alia Hamza, Hamid Raza and eight female activists staged a protest against the prison officials for not allowed them to meet with the PTI founder.
In a speech on this occasion, Aleema Khan said she did not understand why they were not allowed to meet with her brother. “It’s been three weeks; they don’t let us meet with Khan. Even today the police have been deployed so we can’t meet him,” she said.
She said they had come from Lahore to the meeting. “Today is the day of our meeting, today is the lawyer’s day and we hope the lawyers will meet him.” After three hours after the protest, they were put in a police car and driven away.
Those rounded by police included Aleema Khan, Uzma Khan and Noreen Khan – three sisters of Imran Khan – their cousin Qasim Niazi, besides Alia Hamza and eight female activists. Police took them to a local wedding hall and released them after 1 p.m. 21.
About the information about the protests from the Sisters of PTI founder gathered a number of party workers near Adiala Road and began singing slogans. The National Assembly’s opposition leader Omar Ayub and legislators, including Zartaj Yellow, also joined the protesters to express solidarity.
Ayub said the judges should decide if they would implement their orders. He added that the PTI founder would neither ask for any appointment nor sought any gentleness. “According to the law, a prisoner also has rights,” he said.
PTI’s member of the National Assembly Zartaj Gul said that the solution to the problems the country is facing was not in producing PTI as a terrorist. “Everyone knows that Imran Khan is innocent. We stand here peacefully. We ask you to give the family the opportunity to meet and end this crisis.”
The protesters threw stones at police when they were rounded. During the protest, a stone hit Mian Azhar, father of PTI leader Hammad Azhar. Mian Azhar was easily injured and he was taken to a hospital. Later, the protesters were released by police about Ayub insurance.
Meanwhile, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan “illegal and constitutional” detention of IMRAN’s three sisters. He said the meeting with the PTI founder was his sister’s right, adding that it was also ordered by a three-member bench by Islamabad High Court (IHC).
“It’s incomprehensible why the sisters are not allowed to meet the PTI founder. What is the problem in this,” Gohar asked. “Just as Bushra Bibi’s family was allowed to meet, the Imran family should also be allowed to meet him.
Meanwhile, Barrister Gohar and PTI senator Ali Zafar and six other party leaders visited Imran in prison. During the meeting, according to sources, the PTI boundary re -established his full confidence in Alia Hamza and gave her authority to make decisions regarding the PTI Punjab chapter.
Hamza will be empowered to suspend any official and assign the responsibility, the sources say, adding that the PTI founder instructed party chairman Barrister Gohar to issue a notification of Alia Hamza’s responsibilities.
Outside the prison site, the PTI leader employed Misshal Yousafzai in a quarrel with Gohar after she was not allowed to meet with Imran. She said she was among the list of these people planned to meet the PTI base.
However, Barrister Gohar replied that the list she was referring to was false. However, Yousafzai insisted that the list given to the prison authorities of Salman Akram Raja was not false and added that lawyer Gohar and lawyer Ali Zafar were not on that list, yet they were given permission for the meeting.
The attitude of prison authorities
Later, the Adiala prison authorities said the PTI founder and his wife were allowed to meet their family members and lawyers, while the PTI founder had also been allowed to talk to his children, Qasim Khan and Suleman Khan, after the phone via WhatsApp.
Family members Meherunnisa, Mubashara Sheikh also met with Bushra Bibi, while Barrister Ali Zafar Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Zaheer Abbas Advocate, Mubashar Maqsood Advocate, Razia Sultan Advocate, Ali Imran Advocate also met with Imran, they said in a statement.
“Meetings by the PTI founder with Bushra Bibi in prison are held regularly. A false and baseless propaganda that they were not allowed to meet the meeting of political point score and nothing else. The prison administration strongly denies such baseless news.”
In Lahore, Punjab -Information Minister Azma Bokhari strongly denied strong reports on the arrest of Sisters of PTI founder. She said that Aleema Khan and her companions voluntarily boarded a police car and later left on her own at Khawaja Service Station.
“Aleema Khan and the other women used essentially Punjab -Police’s vehicle as a” Uber service, “Bokhari said, adding that the truth behind this drama had been postponed through social media and video footage.” This whole action of the Fitna group was a failed attempt to generate sympathy. “
(With additional input from our Lahore -correspondent)
