Pakistan: Imran Khan’s Family Holds Prayer Sit-in After Being Barred From Jail Meeting

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Imran Khan’s family members and PTI leaders staged a prayer sit-in outside Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on January 7 after authorities denied them permission to meet the jailed former Pakistan prime minister. The protest highlighted growing tensions over Khan’s incarceration and access restrictions.

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00:00The people who are

00:05are the people of the world.

00:10The people of Israel

00:14are the people of Israel.

00:19foreign

00:31foreign

00:33foreign

00:35foreign

00:47Well, we've been trying to meet Imran Khan for past two years.

01:15Despite having court orders, not once, not twice, more than, I guess, ten times when

01:22we come here to meet him, which is his legal right to meet people.

01:29But they deny that meeting to the family as well.

01:33They don't let him talk to his kids, his children, Qasim and Suleiman.

01:40And his sisters are not allowed to meet him.

01:43Then political people from his party, they're not allowed to meet him.

01:47The lawyers, you know, his legal aid, they're not allowed to meet him.

01:52Despite having all those court orders, time and again, we go back to the courts, get the

01:55orders again.

01:56Then, you know, we file the contempt, then get the order again, then come here.

02:01So this has been going on for past two years with me at least.

02:05So, you know, all those meetings, which are his legal right, are being denied.

02:10Yesterday, this activity was, you know, reading Quranic verses.

02:16And whatever has happened now, they have sort of, you know, water is all over now.

02:22We don't know from where did it come.

02:23But it wasn't there.

02:25So all the ladies, especially, they were sitting, deciding the Quranic verses, they had to get

02:30up.

02:31So this is ridiculous.

02:33This is yet another law.

02:34You know, I mean, this was, I mean, a peaceful protest.

02:39It's not a protest.

02:40In fact, it's just, you know, sisters are trying their legal right to meet their brother.

02:47And they were reading Quranic verses there and this happened, very unfortunate.

02:52But people are still here and we'll keep on coming here.

02:56We'll keep on trying to meet Imran Khan.

02:58Remember when Nawashree was in jail, every week about 200 people would beat him easily

03:05without going to any court, without getting any permission.

03:08There was no need to get any permission.

03:10So people would come meet him easily.

03:13Now when Imran Khan is in jail, it has been two years that people are not allowed to meet

03:17him.

03:47I shall get the nation – they had those rights in Korea.

03:48The government has been the most part of it.

03:49They have been the most part of it.

03:50The government is saying, no, aren't we?

03:51We do it.

03:52We're all P

04:01in the government.

04:02So people are had to rise for this work.

04:02Okay.

04:03We want a dog.

04:05We want a dog.

04:06We want a dog.

04:08We want a dog.

04:09So we want a dog.

04:10We want a dog.

04:11We want to come.

04:12It's a dog.

04:13And we want a dog.

04:15Look, we want a dog.

04:16You

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