Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, along with PTI leader Aleema Khan and the party’s legal team, were unable to secure a meeting with the Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court despite repeated attempts.
According to the Chief Minister, they were conveyed a direct message that the Chief Justice would not meet them, prompting PTI leadership to announce that they would not allow parliamentary proceedings to continue today.
Speaking to the media in Rawalpindi, CM Sohail Afridi said, “We were not heard. We were told that the Chief Justice cannot meet us. Therefore, we have decided that neither the National Assembly nor the Senate session will be allowed to continue today.” He further announced that PTI workers and leaders would gather again outside the High Court and Adiala Jail on Tuesday.
Afridi stated that he remains in contact with his provincial administration regarding governance matters and added, “I did not come through parachute politics like Zardari or the Sharifs. I rose from the grassroots through organizational struggle.”
Meanwhile, the Advocate General of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa also confirmed in an informal briefing that the Chief Justice had declined to meet not just the Chief Minister but also the Advocate General, the lawyers, or any other delegation, stating that no meetings were being entertained.
Earlier, the KP Chief Minister had announced an end to his sit-in at the Adiala Jail factory checkpoint, expressing frustration that all constitutional and legal avenues had been exhausted without yielding a meeting with the PTI founder. He expressed strong concern over what he described as “humiliating treatment” toward the PTI founder’s sisters, who were allegedly mishandled on Adiala Road.
Afridi said, “The entire day passed, the whole night passed, and now morning has come—yet I still have not been allowed to meet the founder of PTI.” He reiterated that the refusal to grant access despite clear court orders had raised serious questions about the treatment of his party leadership.
The Chief Minister had begun the sit-in the previous night after being denied permission to meet Imran Khan inside Adiala Jail.
