Islamabad:
The head of the PTI, Shibli Faraz, filed a request for an outrage at the High Court of Islamabad (IHC) against a certain number of civil servants to have violated an order of the court, allowing the founder of PTI imprisoned Imran Khan to meet visitors twice a week.
In his petition deposited by Salman Akram Raja and Shoaib Shaheen, Shibli argued that a biggest IHC bench allowed Imran to meet family members and the party leader at the Adiala prison in Rawalpindi on Tuesday and Thursday.
However, he deplored, the prison administration did not comply with the court order. The head of the PTI, who is also the head of the opposition in the Senate, urged the court to initiate an outrage procedure against various respondents, notably the interior secretary, the general secretary of the Punjab and the superintendent of the Adiala prison.
On March 24, a larger bench of three IHC members restored the Imran bihebdomedary meeting with visitors to Adiala prison, but also imposed a ban on visitors to speak with the media after such meetings.
The bench, led by the acting chief judge, Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, and including judge Arbab Muhammad Tahir and judge Muhammad Azam Khan, noted that only these people could meet the founder of the PTI whose names were provided by the coordinator of Imran Salman Akram Raja.
However, on March 27, the administration of the famous Rawalpindi prison where Imran Khan has been detained since September 2023, did not allow PTI leaders to meet the party founder.
On Thursday, April 3, the authorities of Adiala prison once again refused to allow the PTI chief to meet Imran following the celebrations of Eidul Fitr.
PTI leaders have denied access to Imran
The Adiala prison administration has once again challenged a court and rejected the leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) to their founding president, Imran Khan. This prompted the leaders of the PTI to request judicial intervention, demanding the implementation of the court order, and even suggested that the judges resign if they did not make it respect.
On Thursday, PTI leaders, including Omar Ayub Khan, Shibli Faraz, Aliya Hamza and Niaz Ullah Niazi, arrived at Adiala prison to meet Imran Khan. Although the day was reserved for meetings and Imran himself finalized the list of visitors, they were refused access.
Addressing the media outside of Adiala prison, the opposition chief Omar Ayub Khan expressed his frustration with regard to denial. “We do not know who the instructions are followed to prevent party leaders and family members from meeting Imran Khan,” he said, adding that Imran had not spoken to his sons for more than two and a half months, and he had not seen his sisters.
Ayub also expressed his disappointment that Imran was not authorized to offer prayers of Eid, by questioning: “In what type of Islamic State do we live?” He accused the authorities of having committed an outrage several times in the court and expressed his hope that the judges would ensure that their orders are rendered. “If the judges cannot apply their orders, they should resign,” he added.
He also criticized the provincial government of Balutchistan for hampering a PTI delegation of the meeting of the head of the BNP-M Akhtar Mengal, qualifying it unjust law. Ayub also commented on the deterioration of the situation of the public order, declaring: “We have not warned several times that the government had lost its brief in eight districts”.
