Imran once more declines lie detector testing

Imran Khan, a former prime minister incarcerated on Monday, refused to undergo a fourth lie detector test; a team including police officers and Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) workers returned after four hours at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.

Following exceptional events of vandalism in which hundreds of army installations were attacked on May 9 and May 10 or 2023, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore had let police perform the search on Imran in relation with cases brought against him and a number of PTI leaders.

Sources state that a Lahore police investigation team headed by DSP Asif Javed arrived at Adiala Jail at 12:45 pm to do polygraph tests, photogrammetric and voice matching tests.

The investigating team included PFSA members as technical expert Abid Ayub and inspectors Muhammad Aslam, Tasaddaq, Saleem, and Naveed.

When they arrived, the prison officials told the PTI founder; but, he turned down four times to participate in the enquiry. According to sources Imran was told the investigative team arrived with a court order, but he still refused to do the tests.

The teams had to return following Imran’s unwillingness to assist in the enquiry process.

Imran Khan earlier said he would only take part in the enquiry and go through the tests under his lawyers’ presence.

When the researchers came back with his legal counsel present, he responded in writing saying that Article 13 protects him from being forced to testify against himself or help create evidence perhaps used against him.

Lahore ATC: On May 14, I Judge Manzer Ali Gill let the police run polygraphs for lie detection, photogrammetric facial and voice analysis tests on Imran Khan in twelve May 9 instances.

Declaring the prosecution might contact the PTI founder in Adiala Jail within that period, the judge had mandated completion of the tests within 12 days.

PTI officials Salman Akram Raja and Malik Ahmed Khan announced during a news conference in Lahore that Imran Khan’s sons are free to return to Pakistan and engage in political activity.

With their mother, Imran’s first wife Jemima Goldsmith, the kids of the PTI founder, Kasim and Suleiman have stayed all their lives in the United Kingdom.

In a rare interview posted on social media on May 13, Kasim and Sulaiman discussed Imran Khan’s lack of basic amenities in his prison cell and the purportedly “suppression of democracy” in Pakistan. Their father, they claimed, was housed in jail on “trumped up charges.”

Appealing to “people of influence” everywhere to demand his freedom, they also begged US President Donald Trump and the worldwide community to assist rescue their father from prison.