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title: "Hammad Azhar's family seeks court access over denied meetings"
description: "Most outlets reported that Hammad Azhar’s wife and mother approached a Lahore anti-terrorism court, seeking access to him after allegedly being denied meetings by the police. Dawn provided slightly more context, mentioning that they approached the court over the \"denial\" of meetings and named the mother, Ishrat Azhar. Pakistan Today’s excerpt was briefer and more general in phrasing."
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# Hammad Azhar's family seeks court access over denied meetings

pakistan · updated 10 Sep 2026, 10:33 PM PKT · 10 Sep 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported that Hammad Azhar’s wife and mother approached a Lahore anti-terrorism court, seeking access to him after allegedly being denied meetings by the police. Dawn provided slightly more context, mentioning that they approached the court over the "denial" of meetings and named the mother, Ishrat Azhar. Pakistan Today’s excerpt was briefer and more general in phrasing.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Pakistan Today** — [Hammad Azhar's wife, mother seek court access to detained PTI leader](https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/09/10/hammad-azhars-wife-mother-seek-court-access-to-detained-pti-leader) · 10 Sep 2026, 10:33 PM PKT
- **Dawn** — [Detained PTI leader Hammad Azhar's mother, wife approach Lahore ATC over 'denial' of meetings](https://www.dawn.com/news/2028866/detained-pti-leader-hammad-azhars-mother-wife-approach-lahore-atc-over-denial-of-meetings) · 10 Sep 2026, 3:38 PM PKT · 82% identical wording to the newest filing
  > LAHORE: PTI leader Hammad Azhar’s mother and wife on Thursday approached an anti-terrorism court (ATC) against the police for allegedly denying his family and lawyer access to him. Ishrat Azhar, the mother, and Marriam Hammad, the wife, filed a joint petition through their counsel, Abuzar Salman Niazi. The petition stated that police were not allowing Hammad’s family members and lawyer to meet ...

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- [ATC extends Hammad Azhar’s remand in Jinnah House case](https://harzaviya.com/stories/14467-atc-extends-hammad-azhar-s-remand-in-jinnah-house-case) · 16 Oct 2026 · 4 outlets · 71% related

2 articles from 2 outlets, 10 Sep 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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