• PTI claims a number of held, injured after police scuttle rally in Pindi
• Aleema seeks brother’s launch; Uzma assured Feb 8 protest will ‘shut down’ complete nation
ISLAMABAD: The PTI on Tuesday moved the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) looking for permission to satisfy incarcerated chief Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi in Adiala jail, in addition to an order by the court docket to finish their illegal solitary confinement.
Then again, the Punjab police used drive to disperse a PTI protest in Rawalpindi after the previous ruling get together wrapped up its sit-in exterior the jail and determined to stage a rally within the garrison metropolis. The PTI, in an announcement posted on X after midnight, mentioned the police crackdown resulted in a number of arrests and accidents.
A gaggle of about 17 senators, together with Senator Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, approached the excessive court docket underneath Article 199 of the Structure, making the Punjab Dwelling Division and the Adiala jail superintendent respondents.
The petition challenged the alleged illegal and unconstitutional use of solitary confinement and different inhumane practices in opposition to Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi in jail. Based on the petition, the continued solitary confinement quantities to torture and violates elementary rights assured underneath the Structure.
Barrister Zafar mentioned the senators approached the court docket in discharge of their constitutional responsibility of parliamentary oversight and to safeguard human dignity and the rule of regulation.
The petition maintained Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi had been stored in extended isolation for the final two months with none judicial order or statutory justification underneath the Pakistan Penal Code or the Prisons Act.
It alleged denial of primary prisoner entitlements, together with entry to books, newspapers, TV, household visits, and confidential conferences with counsel, in addition to the arbitrary refusal to permit lawmakers to satisfy them.
The senators contended that these measures had been punitive, politically motivated, and a part of a broader sample of coercive remedy of political detainees, undermining constitutional democracy and parliamentary oversight.
Individually, PTI interim chairman Barrister Gohar, former Nationwide Meeting speaker Asad Qaiser and PTI Secretary Common Salman Akram Raja additionally arrived on the IHC to hunt the fixing of circumstances associated to Mr. Khan and Bushra Bibi.
Based on sources, the PTI management requested a gathering with the IHC chief justice, however the assembly couldn’t happen.
Chatting with the media, Barrister Gohar mentioned he had gone to the chief justice’s chamber to request early fixation of the circumstances however was unable to satisfy him. He added that one other try could be made later.
Barrister Gohar mentioned the PTI had approached the IHC about 15 instances however couldn’t safe a listening to date, stressing {that a} lady’s enchantment needs to be heard expeditiously.
Crackdown on PTI rally
The PTI supporters and members of the family of Imran Khan staged a sit-in exterior the jail for just a few hours after they had been barred from assembly the previous prime minister within the morning. Within the late night, they determined to stage a rally within the garrison metropolis, prompting the police to disperse the gang.
A video posted by the PTI on X confirmed a number of automobiles leaving the jail space, with get together employees and supporters transferring on foot. “Even immediately, Chairman Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi weren’t granted a gathering with the household. Khan sahib’s sisters and get together employees have set off for a protest rally in Islamabad,” the submit’s caption learn.
Nonetheless, the rally was scuttled by the police, with movies of the crackdown posted on X by the PTI. These movies couldn’t be independently verified.
The PTI claimed that its employees had been additionally injured within the motion, and a number of other, together with minors, had been allegedly rounded up. It additionally alleged that the police roughed up the sisters of Mr. Khan and different get together leaders.
Go to to Adiala
Within the morning on their strategy to the jail, the PTI leaders had been stopped at ‘DHA Naka’ as a substitute of ‘Manufacturing unit Chowk’, however had been allowed to maneuver somewhat additional after a while.
Imran’s sister Uzma Khanam mentioned that it has been determined that wherever the police cease them, they may maintain ‘Quran Khwani’ there. She mentioned that on February 8, your complete nation “shall be jammed” to protest the alleged rigging within the 2024 elections.
She urged the get together supporters to fly kites with the identify of Imran Khan on Basant in order that “his identify and movie could be on land and within the skies”.
Replying to a query, Aleema Khan mentioned they wished the discharge of Imran Khan as a substitute of simply conferences.
PTI chief Shafiullah Jan mentioned that previously, the authorities used to cease PTI employees three kilometers from the jail, however on Tuesday, they had been stopped eight kilometers from the jail.
Printed in Daybreak, January twenty first, 2026
