ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday accused authorities of denying his legal team access to the leader to get his signatures on essential documents for court purposes.
Khan, 70, was arrested from his Zaman Park home in Lahore on Saturday shortly after an Islamabad trial court found him guilty in the Toshakhana corruption case and sentenced him to three-year imprisonment.
اطلاعات کے مطابق خان صاحب اٹک جیل میں خیریت سے ہیں۔ حکومت نے وکلاء سے ملنے، کھانا یا دیگر ضروری اشیاء وغیرہ لے جانے پر پابندی لگا دی ہے۔ جیل اطراف کو نو گو ایریا بنا دیا ہے، مقامی آبادی کو بھی گزرنے نہیں دیا جا رہا۔ آپ خان صاحب کیلۓ دعا کریں۔ خیر ہوگی .
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Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, is lodged in the Attock Jail after being sentenced for concealing the sale of state gifts. The case was adjudicated by a sessions court in Islamabad.
The PTI in a statement shared on a WhatsApp group termed Khan’s arrest as an “abduction”. “Chairman’s legal team is not being given access to him for getting legal documents signed, as per the prerequisite, despite appeals made to Superintendent Attock Prison & Additional Home Secretary Punjab,” it said.
Earlier, the PTI alleged that the Punjab police “broke into” Zaman Park and “beat up” Imran’s security guards and house staff. “Even though Khan sahib expressed his willingness to go with the police, they still dragged him and covered his face with a cloth,” the party added. The PTI chairman’s arrest comes around three months after his first arrest on May 9 when he was detained in Islamabad from the high court’s premises in Al-Qadir Trust case. Imran’s arrest had resulted in widespread violence including attack on important military installations, on the basis of which the state had launched a severe crackdown against the PTI.
