{"id":1547,"date":"2026-02-10T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:10:42","slug":"sc-allows-pti-counsel-salman-safdar-to-meet-imran-today-declares-lawyer-friend-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"SC allows PTI counsel Salman Safdar to meet Imran today, declares lawyer \u2018friend of court\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/02\/101104067fb512e.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday allowed PTI counsel Salman Safdar to meet incarcerated party leader Imran Khan at Adiala jail, declaring him \u201cfriend of the court\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes a day after a request for an urgent meeting \u2014 submitted by senior PTI leader Latif Khosa \u2014 was rejected by a two-member bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan. SC issued a notice to the government for Tuesday (today) in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The two-member bench resumed the hearing today, during which CJP Afridi appointed Safdar as \u201cfriend of the court\u201d, with the court directing him to visit Adiala Jail today and submit a written report regarding the facilities available to Imran by tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have full faith in Salman Safdar,\u201d CJP Afridi remarked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should be given full access to the PTI founder so he may be able to file a written response,\u201d he directed.<\/p>\n<p>The court adjourned the hearing till February 12.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>More to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1972247\/sc-allows-pti-counsel-salman-safdar-to-meet-imran-today-declares-lawyer-friend-of-court\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday allowed PTI counsel Salman Safdar to meet incarcerated party leader Imran Khan at Adiala jail, declaring him \u201cfriend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}