RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has decided to go on a hunger strike to protest the treatment he is receiving in prisons.
Sources said the jailed former chief minister would give the strike date after consulting party leaders.
They said they had invited the party leaders a day ago, but the Adiala Jail authorities did not allow them to meet. According to them, Khan waited for three hours inside the jail with the party leadership to hold a meeting.
After his request for a meeting was rejected, the PTI founder ordered the leaders not to air their internal differences in public.
“The PTI founder called the leaders of the two groups to jail a day ago to end their differences,” he said.
Addressing the media outside Adiala Jail on Thursday, PTI leaders said they were not allowed to meet the party founder at Adiala Jail Rawalpindi despite waiting for hours outside the facility.
Imran has faced numerous accusations from corruption to terrorism since becoming the only elected prime minister after resigning in April 2022.
The PTI founder has been in jail since last August and has been convicted in several cases before the general elections earlier this year.
Release from prison appeared to be on the cards last month, but a court in Islamabad rejected a request to overturn the sentence in the case.
