ISLAMABAD: After the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, President Arif Alvi expressed solidarity with the former prime minister and asked his wife to meet the arrested leader’s sisters Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan.
The President asked his wife Samina Alvi to contact Imran Khan’s sisters and tell them that he is making efforts for their well-being.
Sources told the publication that the president shared his feelings with his spouse and asked to contact Imran’s sisters.
Accordingly, the First Lady contacted the two sisters of Chairman PTI over the phone.
Samina said in a statement that when she reached Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan, she told them that there was no case against her brother for looting national wealth.
The two sisters were furious over their brother’s arrest and urged people to continue peaceful protests until the PTI chief is released.
Meanwhile, sources say President Alvi is keeping in touch with the PTI leadership to ascertain the situation and discuss political developments with them.
A spokesman for the Presidency was not available for comment.
This report regarding the President has come out a day after the PTI chief was sent to eight-day physical remand by the accountability court in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
The PTI chief was produced in court after being arrested by Rangers on Tuesday – becoming the seventh former prime minister to be arrested in Pakistan – on the orders of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), an independent anti-corruption body. There is an agency. Corruption case He was then transferred to his office in Garrison Town, Rawalpindi for questioning.
Later, in a reserved judgment on Khan’s arrest, the Islamabad High Court held that the arrest was legal. Therefore, Khan’s legal team challenged the decision in the Supreme Court; However, the Supreme Court rejected the plea citing various reasons.
The cricketer-turned-politician faces a number of court cases and was also charged in the Tosha Khanna case – which involved allegations that he embezzled proceeds from the sale of government gifts during his tenure. did not display correctly.
