LAHORE (The Thursday Times) — The PTI’s central president, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, has called for an end to the country’s political deadlock, saying fast-changing circumstances in the region make it necessary and that the current standoff is “in no one’s interest”.
Elahi spoke on Saturday after the party’s senior leader and lawyer, Sardar Latif Khosa, met him in Lahore and briefed him on his recent meeting with the PTI’s founder, Imran Khan, at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
He called that meeting a positive and welcome step and said such meetings should continue. The two men also discussed the wider political situation and the party’s next steps, the party said. Elahi described Khosa as a seasoned politician whose experience was valuable to the PTI.
The jail meetings
Khosa and Barrister Salman Safdar met Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, at Adiala on November 11, a day after the Islamabad High Court told the jail authorities to arrange at least an hour of consultations between the couple and their lawyers. The court is hearing their appeals against their convictions in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case. The lawyers said afterwards that they had spent about three hours with the couple.
The court has since said it expects Khosa and Safdar to confine themselves to legal issues after the jail meetings, and has relisted the appeals for November 18.
Elahi, a former chief minister of Punjab, was released in May 2024 after nearly a year in custody.
