• Nationwide curiosity calls for govt revisit its strategy in direction of PTI, its founder, get together leaders say
• Officers rule out risk, saying solely spouses are ever allowed such a facility
• IHC seeks report from Adiala administration on plea in search of ex-PM’s switch to hospital
LAHORE: Shah Mahmood Qureshi and 4 different senior PTI leaders imprisoned at Kot Lakhpat Jail have appealed to the federal government to permit the get together vice chairman to fulfill founder Imran Khan at Adiala jail.
The 5 PTI leaders, Mr Qureshi, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Ejaz Chaudhry, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed and Omar Sarfraz Cheema, who’re imprisoned at Kot Lakhpat jail burdened that the nationwide curiosity calls for that the federal government revisit its strategy in direction of PTI and Imran Khan.
Sticking to their stance that the Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) and PTI can not abdicate their function as a accountable opposition, the leaders warned {that a} extended regional battle may have disastrous penalties for Pakistan’s financial safety.
In an announcement conveyed via their counsel on Thursday, the PTI leaders stated that India’s aerial workouts alongside Pakistan’s border and Narendra Modi’s current go to to Israel shouldn’t be taken calmly.
They asserted that terrorism and TTP actions in opposition to Pakistan couldn’t be tolerated. In addition they urged the federal government to interact with the individuals of Afghanistan and keep away from alienating them. “Nationwide curiosity requires nationwide reconciliation,” the leaders insisted.
When contacted, a senior house division officer advised Daybreak There was no clear provision that might permit one prisoner to be taken to a special jail to fulfill one other inmate. “This can be a brand new factor and [must] be regarded into deeper, if the court docket orders such an ‘extraordinary’ assembly,” the officer stated.
Since no formal request has been despatched to the house division, this proposal is unlikely to even be mentioned in official circles. The jail guide and guidelines permit solely attorneys and members of the family to fulfill an inmate, the official added.
On the problem of bringing down political temperatures, the official stated it was as much as the federal government to determine, and it might clearly transfer in keeping with the jail guide and guidelines.
One other former senior official acquainted with the working of prisons, advised Daybreak that such a facility, ie taking a prisoner from one jail to fulfill one other prisoner in a separate penitentiary, had solely ever been prolonged to married {couples} who have been incarcerated individually.
In that state of affairs, a prisoner is predicted to provoke an software for the granting of a conjugal go to.
Plea in search of Imran’s switch
In the meantime, the IHC issued a discover to the District Election Commissioner Islamabad and sought a report from the Adiala jail administration on a petition in search of the switch of former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan to a hospital for medical therapy.
A division bench comprising Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir and Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro issued the instructions whereas listening to a miscellaneous software filed within the pending appeals associated to the Toshakhana case involving a Bulgari jewelery set.
In a written order, the court docket directed the superintendent of Adiala jail to submit a report and in addition requested how a lot of the sentence the PTI founder had already served within the Toshakhana prison case. Notices have been additionally issued to the extra legal professional common and the advocate common on two workplace objections raised by the registrar’s workplace.
The bench noticed that three objections raised by the registrar’s workplace on the applying had been dismissed, whereas two have been upheld. The registrar’s workplace was directed to quantity the miscellaneous software and tag it with the primary appeals. The workplace was additional instructed to organize the paper guide of the appeals earlier than the following listening to scheduled for March 10.
The IHC additionally took up a petition filed by Uzma Khan, sister of the PTI founder, in search of his switch to Shifa Worldwide Hospital for medical therapy.
The petition requested the court docket to permit entry to members of the family, attorneys and docs throughout medical examination and therapy, and to make sure well timed updates concerning the PTI founder’s well being situation.
It additional requested that docs of his alternative — Dr Khurram Mirza, Dr Asim Yousaf, Dr Faisal Sultan and Dr Samina Niazi — be included within the medical board, and that full medical information, together with blood assessments, eye examinations and diagnostic reviews for the previous three months, be offered.
Malik Asad in Islamabad and Mohammad Asghar in Rawalpindi additionally contributed to this report
Revealed in Daybreak, March sixth, 2026
