Overview
- Former PTI figures have organized a 'Release Imran Khan' initiative with planned outreach to the establishment, senior PML-N leaders, government ministers and religious leaders, including a delegation to meet Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
- Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s lawyer says an unannounced hospital visit by Fawad Chaudhry, Imran Ismail and Mahmood Moulvi was brief and unsolicited, and he maintains Qureshi refuses to enter any deals.
- Asad Umar denies involvement in the effort and says he advised against the hospital visit to avoid friction and unnecessary disturbance to Qureshi’s family.
- Fawad Chaudhry claims he has met incarcerated PTI leaders multiple times and cites a letter he says Qureshi, Ejaz Chaudhry, Yasmin Rashid and Mehmoodur Rasheed wrote three months ago calling for lower political temperatures.
- The ex-leaders frame the campaign as a bid to open dialogue and secure releases, but their authority is contested by Qureshi’s lawyer’s account and counterclaims by participants such as Imran Ismail.