After his conviction and detention in a corruption case, Pakistan’s former High Minister Imran Khan has been held in a small bug-infested cellular with an open bathroom on the high-security Attock prison in Punjab province.
In keeping with Khan’s legal professional, Naeem Haider Panjotha, the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman has been given ‘C-class’ remedy on the Punjab province prison. He claimed that the detention cellular the place the previous captain of the rustic’s global champion cricket staff is being detained is full of flies and cockroaches.
Panjotha asserted after assembly Khan in jail on Monday that he’s in a small room with an open rest room. “The PTI chairman says he’s ready to spend his complete lifestyles in prison,” the attorney was once quoted as pronouncing. Panjotha added that Khan instructed him that whilst they had been at his Lahore house, police didn’t provide him with a warrant for arrest and tried to ruin the door of his spouse’s room.
The attorney met Khan for an hour and 45 mins within the presence of a prison reputable to procure his signatures on prison paper in preparation for submitting appeals in opposition to Khan’s conviction. In keeping with the attorney, Khan knowledgeable him that he was once being held in a depressing room with an open rest room, which was once frequented by way of flies all over the day and ants at night time.
“I’ve been saved in a depressing room without a tv or newspaper to be had. No one is permitted to fulfill me as though I’m a terrorist,” Panjotha quoted Khan as pronouncing. Khan was once arrested from his Lahore place of dwelling, simply after an Islamabad trial court docket discovered him in charge of “corrupt practices” within the Toshakhana corruption case and sentenced him to a few years in jail.
Regardless of a court docket ruling directing government to ship him to Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, he was once transferred to Attock prison in Punjab province. Khan’s political profession has been jeopardised because of the court docket verdict, reviews state. The verdict comes as Pakistan prepares for normal elections later this yr, with the present Nationwide Meeting slated to complete its time period on August 12.
The politician-turned-cricketer is accused of illegally promoting state presents for a benefit of USD 497,500. Khan has denied any wrongdoing, claiming that he bought the pieces legitimately from Toshakhana, a government-owned treasure area. Khan has been detained for the second one time in 3 months.
Up to now, on Might 9, he was once arrested in Islamabad from the excessive court docket’s premises within the Al-Qadir Believe corruption case, scary violent protests from his fans. Imran Khan may be charged with terrorism, violence, blasphemy, corruption, and homicide in over 140 incidents around the nation.