Parvez ElahiI says IMF and EU officials regularly visit Imran Khan in jail

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that representatives from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union regularly visit PTI Chairman Imran Khan at Adiala jail, where he is currently detained.

Elahi shared this information while talking to reporters at Lahore’s Special Court (Central.

Elahi, also held at Adiala jail and brought to Lahore court for a money laundering case hearing, said that Imran Khan was confined in a cell adjacent to his own. Elahi emphasized that the IMF and EU representatives visit Imran Khan, and he expressed confidence that the PTI leader would garner a significant number of votes in upcoming polls.

Standing in solidarity with Imran Khan, Elahi said that there would be no rigging in the upcoming elections, asserting that the election date was announced in accordance with the Supreme Court’s directives.

Without explicitly naming former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif, Elahi referred to them as “laadlas” (favourites) who he claimed were “imposed” on the nation.

He criticized the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government led by Shehbaz Sharif, attributing severe inflation to their policies and urging them to recognize their diminishing vote bank in Punjab.

He expressed the hope that the Sharif brothers would not be allowed to manipulate the ballot this time. He vehemently denied all charges against him, dismissing them as baseless and unfounded.

In a separate legal development, Elahi appeared before Magistrate Tanveer Ahmed Sheikh in connection with a money laundering case. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) sought to designate Elahi’s son, Moonis Elahi, as an absconder in the case.

The court adjourned the hearing until November 30 after the FIA counsel requested the declaration of Moonis as an absconder.

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Subsequently, Elahi was presented before another local court for a case involving unauthorized appointments in the Punjab Assembly.

After completing his two-week remand in this case, the judicial magistrate extended the PTI president’s judicial remand by 14 days, adjourning the hearing until November 30.

Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has faced arrest at least 12 times since June, amidst a widespread crackdown on the PTI workers following the violence on May 9.

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