Overview
- Chief Minister Sohail Afridi was stopped by Punjab Police at the Dahagal Naka checkpoint in Rawalpindi during his tenth attempt to meet the PTI founder.
- The Adiala Jail administration has directed that no visitor be allowed to meet Imran Khan, who is held under near-solitary conditions.
- Punjab authorities maintain they will not grant any exemptions to the ban until new instructions are issued.
- Afridi denounced the refusals as unconstitutional, invoked a 1971-style warning about national fracture, and vowed to keep attempting visits.
- The KP leader and PTI allege political persecution and say court orders are being ignored, as recent tensions outside Adiala included police dispersing a sit-in by Khan’s sisters.