Overview
- Adiala jail ended visiting hours without allowing meetings, with PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar and the founder’s sisters turned away as family members began a sit-in at the nearby factory checkpoint.
- Aliema Khan urged supporters to stay calm and said the family has long been denied access, alleging solitary confinement while insisting her sister did not discuss politics during a prior meeting.
- Police bolstered deployments at the checkpoint, directed women officers to the site, cut roadside lighting, and brought in prison vans and water cannon as they considered options to disperse the gathering.
- PTI sources said the party accepted a government offer for a committee to inspect jail facilities and recommended Rana Sanaullah to chair it, while some PTI parliamentarians publicly disputed that such a decision was taken in their meeting.
- In parallel developments, Indonesia’s president received a guard of honor in Islamabad and agreed with Pakistan to deepen cooperation across defense, health and trade, and the Islamabad High Court declared a fake-degree case against Justice Tariq Jahangiri admissible and issued notices.