ISLAMABAD, Feb 24 (NNI): Opposition Leader in the National Assembly and PTI leader Omar Ayub Khan said on Monday that the party leaders in their meeting with Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Yahya Afridi told him that the rights of former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi who were currently at Adiala Jail were being deliberately usurped.
Talking to the media outside the Judicial Complex in Islamabad, he said that the PTI delegation also informed the CJP that neither the party leaders were allowed to meet Imran nor he had been allowed to talk to his sons abroad on the phone. “If this was the state of affairs in the lower judiciary. Then what will the situation be like in the upper courts,” Omar wondered.
PTI leader further said that it was after the former prime minister granted permission that the party delegation met with Justice Afridi. “I asked him about it thrice,” he informed.
Similarly, the opposition leader went on to say, the PTI delegation conveyed to the CJP its concerns over the jail trial of Imran Khan. “All other prime ministers were tried in open courts.”
Omar said that the PTI leaders told Justice Afridi about the harassment of the party workers by the police. “We told him that the situation was worse in Punjab, Sindh, Islamabad and Balochistan,” he added.
The opposition leader lamented that inflation and employment were on the rise in the country. “As many as two million people have left for foreign countries in search of greener pastures during the last three years.”
The PTI leader informed that the party had reached out to the other opposition parties in a bid to form an alliance of the opposition parties. “Soon we will address a press conference in this regard.”
He said that Imran was satisfied with the performance of the PTI leadership.
Earlier, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) deferred the hearing of nine cases against the leader of the opposition until April 10 when it was told that senior lawyer Babar Awan would not appear in the court today. NNI
