Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's three sisters have demanded an impartial probe into the "brutal" police assault on them and supporters of their brother outside the Adiala Jail last week.
Khan's sisters —Noreen Niazi, Aleema Khan and Dr. Uzma Khan— had camped outside Adiala Jail along with other Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members after being denied a meeting with him for a month. They were sitting outside the jail when police personnel pounced on them and brutally assaulted them for what the party said was "their crime for seeking a meeting with Imran Khan".
In a letter to Pakistan’s Punjab police chief Usman Anwar, Khan's sisters said the violence was “brutal and orchestrated and carried out by policemen without provocation."
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"We peacefully protested over concerns for his health condition. We neither blocked roads nor obstructed public movement, nor engaged in any unlawful conduct. Yet, without warning or provocation, the streetlights in the area were abruptly switched off, deliberately casting the scene into darkness. What followed was a brutal and orchestrated assault by Punjab police personnel,” Noreen Niazi said.
