Following the eighth refusal to meet with Imran Khan at Adiala Jail, KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi organises a sit-in.

After being turned down for a meeting with PTI founder Imran Khan for the seventh time, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi staged a sit-in near Adiala Jail’s Factory Naka on Thursday.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) had already ordered that CM Afridi not be allowed entry last Friday. He told reporters that he had written to the Chief Justice but had not heard back.

A heavy police presence near Factory Naka prevented Afridi and party supporters from marching to the jail as planned. Lawmaker Hafiz Farhat Abbas of Punjab conducted prayers during the sit-in.

“A province is being treated like a stepmother,” he said, expressing alarm about officials’ failure to follow court rulings. It is unacceptable to insult a representative of 25 million people in this manner. No one has been permitted to meet him, he said, including Imran’s sisters, solicitors and medical professionals.

Without defining the “final option,” Afridi threatened that PTI would take it into consideration if the government persisted in their position.

Concerns regarding Imran Khan’s health were also raised by the PTI, which pointed out that he had been prohibited from meeting his relatives and attorneys for more than three weeks. No one has seen Imran since November 4, according to former PM’s adviser Zulfi Bukhari, who referred to the seclusion as “illegal.”

The former premier is in good condition and there are no plans to transfer him, a jail official told Reuters. Requests for comment were not answered by the Interior Ministry.