Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is urging overseas powers to get celebration founder Imran Khan launched and be despatched abroad, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed. “They are telling the foreign powers to persuade Pakistan towards releasing Imran Khan and ship him to so-and-so us of a,” he said. Speaking at some stage in an interview with a non-public information channel on Tuesday, the minister also claimed that these international locations abroad are also “geared up” to welcome the PTI founder — who remains incarcerated in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail in view that August 2023. When asked if the nations are from Europe or whether or not is the United States, Asif dodged a response citing that he is “vulnerable in geography”. The PTI founder has been at the back of bars for extra than a 12 months after his conviction within the Toshakhana criminal case and subsequent sentencing in different cases beforehand of the February eight elections — allegations that he has persisted to deny. The minister’s comments come over per week after as many as 20 British parliamentarians from go-celebration have entreated Member of Parliament and United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy to call for the previous high minister’s launch from Adiala, asking the authorities to interact with Islamabad on the problem. The letter become written with the aid of Kim Johnson, MP for Liverpool Riverside, on the request of Khan’s adviser on International Affairs Zulfi Bukhari. It was signed by using contributors of both the Commons and the Lords, from all events. On the alternative hand, extra than 60 members of the United States House of Representatives additionally wrote a letter to President Joe Biden, calling on him to use Washington’s leverage with the Pakistani government for the release of the incarcerated founder. In their letter, the Democratic lawmakers urged President Biden to prioritise human rights in US policy towards Pakistan. “We write nowadays to induce you to apply the United States’ tremendous leverage with Pakistan’s government to steady the release of political prisoners which include former Prime Minister Khan and curtail big human rights abuses,” the lawmakers said. The letter also made an enchantment for US embassy officials to visit Imran, who is presently in the back of bars at Adiala prison.
