{"id":1549,"date":"2025-03-24T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2025-03-24T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:04:53","slug":"ihc-reinstates-biweekly-meetings-for-imran-khan-in-adiala-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"IHC reinstates biweekly meetings for Imran Khan in Adiala Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has reinstated biweekly meetings for former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)\u00a0founding chairman\u00a0Imran Khan in Adiala Jail, but also barred visitors from making political statements after the meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, issued on Monday, allows Imran to meet family and lawyers on Tuesdays and friends on Thursdays. However, only those approved by Imran\u2019s coordinator, lawyer Salman Akram Raja, will be permitted.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, the court expressed concerns over visitors using jail meetings for political messaging. Acting Chief Justice Sarfaraz Dogar remarked that visitors should &#8220;meet and leave,&#8221; stressing that media talk was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered visitors to sign an undertaking ensuring they would not make public statements after meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Jail authorities defended previous restrictions, citing security threats. They said they had consolidated Khan\u2019s meetings into one day instead of two to manage risks.<\/p>\n<p>The court dismissed the argument, stating that Imran\u2019s biweekly visits had already been approved in a previous ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Imran\u2019s legal team argued that scheduled meetings were being arbitrarily denied. His lawyer, Zaheer Abbas, claimed that despite proper requests, a scheduled meeting on March 20 did not take place.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Dogar instructed Imran\u2019s lawyers to approach the trial court separately if they wanted permission for his children to visit.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling comes amid ongoing legal battles for Imran, who has been in jail since January after being convicted in corruption cases. His legal status changed from under-trial to convicted prisoner, affecting his jail privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Jail authorities maintain that meetings should be limited for security reasons. However, the court stressed that political debates should not be held during or after visits.<\/p>\n<p>Imran\u2019s legal team assured the court that visitors would comply with the new restrictions, clearing the way for resumption of biweekly meetings.<\/p>\n<p>With the court\u2019s ruling, Imran Khan\u2019s supporters and legal team will now be able to meet him twice a week. However, any violation of the media gag order could lead to further legal action.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamabad High Court\u2019s decision is seen as a small relief for Imran\u2019s camp, but restrictions on political statements show the judiciary\u2019s attempt to prevent jail meetings from becoming a platform for political messaging.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has reinstated biweekly meetings for former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)\u00a0founding chairman\u00a0Imran Khan in Adiala Jail, but also barred visitors from making political statements after the meetings. The ruling, issued on Monday, allows Imran to meet family and lawyers on Tuesdays and friends on Thursdays. However, only those approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}