Overview
- Former PTI leaders including Fawad Chaudhry, Imran Ismail and Ali Zaidi have agreed to a ‘Release Imran Khan’ campaign aimed at lowering political tensions and pursuing Khan’s freedom.
- The group plans stakeholder outreach that includes contacts with the establishment, meetings with PML-N figures and a proposed three-member delegation to meet Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
- Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s lawyer says three ex-PTI leaders made an unannounced hospital visit that he rebuffed, a claim disputed by the visitors as they frame their effort as reconciliation-focused.
- Separately, PTI central leaders Salman Akram Raja and Shaukat Basra met Qureshi in Lahore to discuss the political situation and efforts for Imran Khan’s release.
- Ex-PTI figures deny a ‘minus formula’ and argue the current party leadership cannot secure Khan’s release, while Qureshi’s lawyer publicly criticized jail medical care for detained PTI leaders.