Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi staged an overnight sit-in after he was denied a meeting with party founder Imran Khan, who is incarcerated at Adiala jail, for an eighth time. The sit-in began on Thursday afternoon and also included members of the KP cabinet. Visuals reposted by the PTI on X showed CM Afridi, along with other party workers, offering Fajr prayers outside the jail on Friday morning. Other images showed Afridi and others huddled around a fire.
The sit-in was again livestreamed by the party on its social media channels. Speaking on the livestream, the KP CM announced that the sit-in was being wrapped up, adding that he would now approach the Islamabad High Court (IHC). “We will now go to the IHC to meet the chief justice,” he said, wrapped in a beige shawl to fend off the cold. “We will request him that three of your judges had ordered the meeting [with Imran]. In the presence of all our lawyers, a judge directed the jail superintendent that a meeting should be arranged,” he said.