ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s sisters Aleema Khan and Uzma Khanum along with former First Lady Bushra Bibi met the leader imprisoned in Attock Jail, five days after which they visited Islamabad High. Requested permission from the court.
After the PTI chief was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of Rs 1 lakh in the Tosha Khana case, the Khan sisters pleaded with the court that the jail superintendent did not allow them to meet the former prime minister. . He had included the Federation as a respondent in his petition.
“We went to meet our brother, former prime minister Imran Khan, in Attock Jail on Thursday, but the superintendent did not allow us to meet him,” said his petition seeking a court order to meet him.
Sources told JEE News that during the meeting, Khan’s sisters and wife were accompanied by the party’s four-member legal team.
While Aleema and Uzma were meeting their brother for the first time, it was Bushra Bibi’s third visit to her husband, who has been in jail since August 5 after being sentenced by a trial court in Islamabad.
Bushra Bibi’s meeting with the ousted prime minister lasted for more than an hour, according to sources, both of them discussed personal and political issues.
“Bushree discussed with her husband a specific issue regarding a message from a foreign friend to settle abroad,” an intelligence agency source said.
Bushra Bibi’s two-car convoy was stopped at a police barrier about half a kilometer from the jail and allowed to proceed after a thorough search of the vehicles.
Meanwhile, PTI supporters gathered around the jail to welcome Khan, hoping for his release. However, the police dispersed them.
Earlier, a heavy contingent of police was deployed on the way to the jail. The media was also barred from covering the PTI leadership movement. However, he was conditionally allowed to perform his duties. The police also detained some PTI workers and later released them.
