Police has no business to stop PTI leaders from meeting Imran Khan, says PTI leader
Ali Muhammad Khan says Punjab Police acting like 'Gullu Butt'
PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan said on Tuesday that the Adiala Jail administration, not the Punjab Police, was authorized to bar him and others from meeting former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
Talking to the media outside the jail, he said he had the right to go to the jail to meet his leader. "But the Punjab Police are denying us this right," he lamented.
He wondered how the police could stop parliamentarians from meeting their party leader. "The Punjab Police are acting like 'Gullu Butt'," he added.
Earlier, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan's sister Aleema reached outside the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to register their protest over not fixing the cases involving Imran and his wife Bushra Bibi for the hearing.
24News TV channel had reported that the security had been put on high alert in and around the IHC as additional contingents of the police and FC had taken their positions in and around the court in view of the rally the PTI plans to take out today in support of the independence of judiciary.
A prisoner’s van and an armoured vehicle were also parked outside the IHC as the PTI MNAs and MPAs are due to gather outside the court.
On the other hand, the hearing of the 190 million pound case against the former prime minister and his wife could not be fixed for the hearing.
The PTI had on Monday announced it would hold a protest demonstration outside the IHC and the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday to voice its concern over the pressure being exerted on the courts not to fix the cases involving Imran Khan or his wife for the hearing.
Quoting its sources, the 24News TV channel reported that while the party lawmakers from Punjab had been asked to hold a demonstration outside the LHC, those belonging to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) had been directed to assemble outside the IHC to register their protest.
Reporter: Ihtesham Kiani