Rawalpindi Central Prison Authorities refused Thursday Thursday to allow key PTI leaders, including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and veteran politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi to meet PTI founder Imran Khan, who is withheld at the prison facility. When he spoke with the media later, Gandapur expressed his anger over "Unjustified limitations" Imposed on the executive leader of a province and promised to pay PML-N led federal government in the same coin. Hashmi, who also remained part of PTI from 2012 to 2014, also condemned the move. The KP chief minister declared that they had to meet the former prime minister to inform him of the KP budget, but the authorities did not let this happen. "KP -Budget Authorization Process has not yet completed and the budget is in progress," he added. Cracks in the former reigning party were more pronounced after the KP assembly on Tuesday approved the provincial budget. Some PTI leaders expressed amazement of the provincial government "haste" With IMRAN’s sisters who claimed that the PTI founder was not heard prior to the approval. Gandapur said he could answer authorities to let them meet their prisoner leader by imposing prime minister Shehbaz Sharif during his visit to KP. PTI has been in power in KP since 2013. He said that Imran, the PTI cartridge-in-chief, should give his input before the budget was adopted, but he, the KP chief minister, was prevented from meeting him. He said the law or constitution is being violated; Institutions do not work and even the judiciary is not independent.
"We were told by the prison authorities that we could not fulfill Imran as a precautionary measure, as if we are terrorists. A meeting with the party’s founder will eventually happen, but the current method is wrong," he said. He said the party has also submitted a civilian various application (CMA) in the Supreme Court and asked what action has been taken on the letters that Imran Khan wrote to Chief Justice of Pakistan, and Gandapur also asked Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz about how much authority has Punjab -Home who actually allowed and had a meeting between IMRAN Khan and his party. He said as minister of chief that it is his right to visit any prison and meet with every prisoner. Makhdoom Javed Hashmi also spoke to the occasion and said no one could implement "The minus-imran formula". He said he had come to Adiala Prison for expressing solidarity with the PTI founder. Hashmi said he had distanced himself from Imran as he had come closer to the business. "Imran does not want freedom, he only requires the rule of law," he added.
