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Interior Hints at Imran Khan Transfer as Clerics Set Demands and Lahore Runs Emergency Drill

The week reflects tightened custody controls, heightened preparedness, assertive religious advocacy.

Overview

  • Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry signaled a possible transfer of PTI founder Imran Khan from Adiala Jail.
  • Chaudhry also said no party workers would accompany Khan’s sisters or his lawyers for meetings at the jail that day.
  • Daily Jang reported that a double-cabin vehicle associated with former Karachi police officer Rao Anwar caught fire.
  • UET Lahore staged a large-scale emergency exercise involving Punjab Police, the Bomb Disposal Squad, Rescue 1122, and university participants.
  • At a clerics’ convention in Lahore, Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali and others urged a Gaza cease-fire and aid, called for releasing detained Sunni clergy and activists, and opposed changes to Section 295C and the anti-Qadianiat ordinance.