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The Advocate Post: Pakistan has reportedly deported British journalist Charles Glass after he was denied permission to meet incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

The sources indicated that after the authorities canceled the British journalist with US origins, he was driven to the airport from his residence in the federal capital.

The seasoned reporter had emailed Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to request permission to see the PTI founder. The journalist told the minister that the court injunction prevented him from meeting the PTI founder while he was incarcerated.

The PTI founder has been in prison for about a year now; he was arrested on August 5 of last year on allegations ranging from corruption to terrorism. Khan has consistently denied all of the accusations made against him.

One day prior, the 72-year-old former cricket player who is now a politician stated that he is open to have discussions with the military to try and diffuse the political unrest that erupted in the nation after he was removed in a no-confidence vote in April 2022.

Four days prior to the purported deportation, the journalist—who is purportedly a friend of PTI founder—had disclosed that he had been denied permission to meet Khan while incarcerated.

After visiting Khan in prison last week, the journalist told the reporters, “I am here [in Pakistan] as a friend of Imran Khan, and not as a lawyer or an activist.”

In May of this year, Glass penned a piece for World Press Freedom Day advocating for the release of Imran Khan and Julian Assange, claiming that they were both imprisoned for opposing the United States.

On June 25, however, Assange, the creator of WikiLeaks, was released from the high-security Belmarsh jail in the United Kingdom after entering a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to obtain and expose classified data of the United States government.