Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan asks court to meet his sons in prison

Islamabad:

Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi has asked the government and jail administration to respond to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s request to meet his sons, Pakistani daily The Express Tribune reported on Wednesday.

The former prime minister has filed a petition seeking permission to meet his sons, Qasim and Sulaiman, in Adiala jail.

In his petition, Mr Khan argued that meeting his sons was his constitutional and legal right, stressing that the meeting would be of a family nature.

“I want to meet my sons, Qasim and Sulaiman. It is my constitutional and legal right,” Mr Khan said.

The court asked the government, the Interior Ministry and the prison service to provide their responses by July 5. The hearing was adjourned until July 7.

The former Pakistani prime minister was sentenced on January 30 to ten years in prison for leaking state secrets. He is already serving a three-year sentence for corruption. Imran Khan has called all the charges against him politically motivated.

In a statement published on his X account (ex-Twitter), he called on the population to “take revenge for every injustice by your vote on February 8 while remaining peaceful.” “Tell them that we are not sheep that can be led with a stick,” he added.

Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, vice chairman of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison by the special court set up in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.

The case concerns the alleged leak of secret diplomatic correspondence sent by Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington to Islamabad when Khan was prime minister.

It is his appearance at a rally in March 2022, a month before Khan was ousted from power in a parliamentary vote of no confidence. He appeared on stage, holding up a piece of paper that he said showed a foreign conspiracy against him.

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