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  "path": "/news/2002796/pti-confirms-barrister-gohar-sohail-afridis-meeting-with-naqvi-says-discussion-focused-on-terrorism-in-kp",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-24T19:20:29.000Z",
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  "textContent": "ISLAMABAD: The PTI confirmed on Sunday that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and party chairperson Barrister Gohar Ali Khan had held a meeting with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in previous days.\n\nPTI Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram told _Dawn_ that the meeting was held to discuss the issue of terrorism in KP, especially in Bannu, where two police personnel and as many civilians were martyred while 25 terrorists were killed in a fierce clash between law enforcers, a peace committee and militants on Saturday.\n\nThe interior minister “mostly discussed how terrorism can be controlled”, he said.\n\nHe shared these details after _Dawn_ approached him following an X post by Imran’s sister, Aleema Khan.\n\n“Barrister Gohar and Sohail Afridi met Mohsin Naqvi. Our family had no knowledge of this meeting, and neither was any family member present,” she said, addressing another post that said she was also part of the meeting.\n\n> Speaking to _Dawn_ , Akram also said, “It is incorrect that Aleema Khan was part of the meeting. Only the KP CM and Barrister Gohar attended the meeting, and it was regarding terrorist attacks in KP, especially in Bannu.”\n\nLater, CM Afridi posted on X that the meeting was “regarding the terrorist incidents that took place in Bannu and the province’s law and order situation, and no political discussions took place in it that are being reported”.\n\n> Sources told _Dawn_ that the meeting took place at Barrister Gohar’s residence.\n\nA senior PTI leader, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the meeting was held on May 14 at night, around 9pm.\n\n“Sohail Afridi went to the venue along with his driver without a protocol vehicle,” he said.\n\nWhen asked for more details of the meeting, he said one of the key areas of discussion was allowing incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan to meet with his family and party leaders and providing him medical treatment at a hospital.\n\nThe Islamabad High Court (IHC) allowed Imran Khan to have twice-a-week meetings — on Tuesdays and Thursdays — with his family, lawyers and other associates. Despite the order, the former premier has been restricted from meeting visitors for several weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, the PTI has also been demanding that he be shifted to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad for treatment since his eye ailment — right central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) — came to light in late January.\n\nThe senior PTI leader also said that during the meeting with Afridi and Gohar, Naqvi “made it clear the KP CM was not in the list of the favourite people”.\n\nHe recalled that previously, Imran had expressed annoyance when former KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur had held a meeting with Naqvi, a photo of which had been released.\n\nEarlier this week, Afridi was also asked during a press conference whether he held a meeting with an “important personality”, to which he had replied: “I can meet anyone for Imran Khan.”",
  "title": "PTI confirms Barrister Gohar, Sohail Afridi's meeting with Naqvi; says discussion focused on terrorism in KP"
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