Assistant Advocate General (AAG) Punjab told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday that the issues former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan was confronting in District Jail, Attock had been resolved. During the hearing of Imran’s petition for shifting him from Attock to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, the AAG said that the PTI chairman had been given ‘Better Class’ in the jail since there was no B Class in it. He told that walls of the washroom of the cell in which PTI chairman was spending his prison term had been raised. “He has also been provided a bed, a chair, a 21-inch television set, and five newspapers in the jail,” he said, adding, “Former prime minister is also served meals of his choice. Furthermore, five doctors have also been arranged for him.”

IHC Chief Justice (CJ) Justice Aamer Farooq heard the former prime minister’s petition. Imran, he went on to say, was given chicken and mutton cooked in desi ghee twice in a week.  Rebutting the AAG’s statement, Sher Afzal Marwat, counsel for the PTI chairman, said that the government had kept his client in the Attock jail on the grounds that security was better there. “But truth of the matter is that he has been kept in the Attock jail only to torture him mentally. On the contrary, security arrangements at Adiala Jail are better; the jail also has a B class in it,” he said, adding, “It is Imran’s right to get B class in the Adiala Jail.”He said which jail was better security-wise was an open secret.

 Advocate Marwat told the court that when Sardar Latif Khosa had gone to meet PTI chairman in the jail, he saw that the cell in which the latter had been kept was without roof, exposing him to rain. “Khosa had further said that Imran could not sleep all night since there were lot of flies there,” he informed.Justice Farooq remarked if these were the conditions in the ‘Better Class’, what kind of agony ordinary prisoners would be going through in other classes of the jail.     Later, the case’s hearing was adjourned until September 12.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)