Web Desk: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Abid Sher Ali has strongly criticized the treatment given to former prime minister Imran Khan in Adiala Jail. He said that he is enjoying undue facilities despite being a convicted prisoner.
During a media talk he said that Imran Khan should be transferred to a stricter to Sebi or Attock Fort Jail so that he can understand the real hardships of jail life. He said that Imran Khan is enjoying his stay in Adiala Jail and should instead be moved to places like Sibi Jail or Attock Fort Jail under handcuffs as similar to how former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was once kept.
The PML-N senator questioned the regularity of visits Imran Khan receives and said that while court orders allow family members to meet him but it is very unusual that senior everyone including the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa come to meet him every day. He said that if such open access is allowed for Imran Khan, then there are other high-profile prisoners are in the jail then they should also be granted the same facilities.
Abid Sher Ali said that this is strange that Imran Khan is being provided special privileges in jail, including regular exercise, preferred food, and comfortable living arrangements, facilities that are not available to other prisoners.
He also added that Imran Khan should be kept in a high-security and stricter jail to experience the true conditions faced by prisoners and he said that the current arrangements reflect unequal treatment under the law.
