PML-N leaders, workers barred from meeting Nawaz at prison.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif once again lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan for his alleged role in barring party workers from meeting their leader - Nawaz Sharif - at the Kot Lakhpat prison.

Hundreds of PML-N workers, including senior parliamentarians and former ministers, came to the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore on Thursday to meet the incarcerated former prime minister but the jail authorities didn't allow them to go inside.

Nawaz Sharif, who is facing seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case, was allowed to have weekly meeting with only few immediate family members, including Shehbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz.

"Imran Khan is scared of Nawaz Sharif and therefore he is using such tactics," Shehbaz said while addressing the party workers outside the jail. "The drama of Imran Khan will be over soon as he will be held accountable in the court of people for this cruelty. I am warning you [PM] to let these workers meet with their leader who have come here in his love," he said, alleging that the jail authorities aren't giving basic facilities to PML-N's stalwarts Kh Saad Rafique and Rana Sanaullah on the behest of Imran Khan.

Senior leadership of PML-N including former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Khawaja Asif and Ahsan Iqbal accompanied Shehbaz Sharif in his vehicle while Maryam Nawaz and Capt (r) Safdar came on another vehicle.

"More than 40 parliamentarians including senators are here to meet their leader. This is the third consecutive week that we have not been allowed to meet Nawaz Sharif," former prime minister Abbasi said, adding that Nawaz Sharif is still the centre of Pakistan's politics. He was of the view that jails and prisons are not new places for PML-N as they have faced...