Aleema terms South Asia tensions ‘a fixed match’
• PTI claims police manhandled Imran’s sisters, party leaders outside Adiala Jail
• Asad Qaiser vows to move court against police ‘high-handedness’
ISLAMABAD: After managing to meet her imprisoned brother on Tuesday, Aleema Khan said the current tensions between Pakistan and India was “nothing but a fixed match”.
On the other hand, a number of PTI leaders staged a sit-in outside Parliament House after they were manhandled during a visit to Adiala Jail.
During a media talk after her meeting with Imran Khan, Ms Khan was asked whether her brother was aware that Pakistan was at the brink of war.
In response, Aleema Khan asked whether the PM was holding meetings with his cabinet day and night. “When a meeting of the National Assembly is called, no one attends it. Does the government look serious? Nothing is going on at the borders, it is a fixed match,” she said.
About India’s actions on the Indus Waters Treaty, she said it could only have happened under the PML-N government, claiming that Modi could not have stopped Pakistan’s water while her brother was in power.
Asked about her meeting with her brother, she said he was in good health.
Altercation outside jail
On Tuesday, PTI claimed that police had manhandled, shoved and dragged the sisters of PTI founder Imran Khan, along with party leaders and workers, outside Adiala Jail.
In a statement, PTI’s Information Secretary Sheikh Waqqas Akram termed the police high-handedness a gross violation of court orders.
Later, at a sit-in outside Parliament, Asad Qaiser said it was unfortunate legislators were being manhandled and vowed to move court against police.
Published in Dawn, May 7th, 2025
