Islamabad: Pakistan's incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been hatching plots inside the prison to create another “political chaos” in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s advisor on political and public affairs has claimed. Khan, who faces over 200 cases and has been convicted in a few of them, has been in jail since August last year.
Prime Minister’s Adviser on Political and Public Affairs, Rana Sanaullah, told Geo News ‘Naya Pakistan’ that the 71-year-old founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was not permitted by the court to hold political meetings at the high-security Adiala Jail.
Claiming that the PTI founder is not allowed to make such plans to create chaos while sitting in jail, Sanaullah said that evidence available to authorities concerned solidifies the claims of such planning underway in the jail. He, however, said that the government has no audio or video evidence of the planning “but those who are responsible and performing duties there have them”.
The former interior minister's statement came after the leaders of the former ruling party said they were denied permission to meet the party’s incarcerated founder in Adiala Jail despite waiting for a few hours outside the facility earlier this week.
Sanaullah's comments came after Khan demanded fresh elections under a “new and impartial” election commission, saying the whole country knows the 2024 election was the biggest fraud in Pakistan’s history.
| An anti-terrorism court in Lahore has reserved its decision on Imran Khan’s interim bail requests related to the May 9 incidents, including the Jinnah House case and two other cases, The Express Tribune newspaper reported. During the hearing recently, Khan’s counsel, Barrister Salman Safdar, argued that the PTI founder was being targeted for political reasons. After hearing arguments from both sides, the court reserved its judgment on Khan’s interim bail requests. |
