PTI leaders don’t get to meet Imran in jail

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders returned without being allowed to meet their leader and party’s founding chairman Imran Khan in Adiala jail, Rawalpindi, on Thursday.

They called the denial of meeting with their leader a violation of the Constitution and their fundamental right. A list of 12 people was given to the jail authorities for meeting the PTI founding chairman, but the jail authorities refused it when the time was over.

The Thursday’s visitors included Salman Akram Raja, Faisal Chaudhry, Taimur Saleem Jhagra, Sohail Afridi, Mosaddiq Abbasi, Haleem Adil Sheikh and Seemabia Tahir. Moreover, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa PTI chief and PAC Chairman Junaid Akbar, Provincial Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sohail Afridi, Shandana Gulzar, Atif Khan, Hamid Raza, Umar Dogar and Ali Khan Jadoon also reached Adiala jail, besides Sanaullah Khan Mastikhel, Dr. Amjad Bashir Qureshi and Opposition Leader in Punjab Ahmed Khan Bachhar reached the jail, but none of them was allowed to meet the PTI founder.

Talking to the media outside the Adiala jail, Sahibzada Hamid Raza of the Sunni Ittehad Council said that for the past two days, it had been said that the PTI parliamentarians should not come to the jail. One meeting of political people was held (with Imran Khan) before the 26th Amendment and the other during the negotiations.