PTI accuses police of crackdown on protesters near Adiala jail

ISLAMABAD: PTI accused police of subjecting its workers to violence and arresting them near Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail on Tuesday.

The IHC has allowed Imran twice-a-week meetings — on Tuesday and Thursdays — with his family, lawyers and other associates. Despite the order, the ex-premier has not been allowed any visitors for weeks, including his sisters and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi.

Therefore, protests and sit-ins near the Adiala jail, where Imran has been incarcerated since September 2023, have become a usual occurrence on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On several occasions, police have also used force to disperse the protesters, who often camp at Factory Naka — a police picket near the prison.

Imran’s sisters and supporters again staged a sit-in near the prison today while a PTI post on social media platform X quoted Noreen Khanum — one of PTI founder’s sisters — and Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Moeen Qureshi as alleging that police had inflicted violence on party workers and arrested them as well. Staff Report