Adiala jail administration refutes PTI’s claims over facilities for Imran Khan.
The Adiala jail administration on Friday rejected reports about withdrawing facilities for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, while the party is repeatedly saying that he is facing difficulties citing a lack of due facilities.
The superintendent of Central Jail Rawalpindi, known as the Adiala jail, said all the facilities as per the jail manual were given to Khan, with special attention on his security and health.
“The PTI founder is supplied one English newspaper daily. He has an exercise machine and place for walk [to keep him fit],” he said.
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The jail official further said that the former prime minister and his incarcerated spouse, Bushra Bibi, had been allocated a separate kitchen, while prison staff was present 24/7 for his security.
The Adiala jail superintendent said books were also available for him to read.
The official denied the report about an open sewer in Khan’s cell and rats in Bushra Bibi’s cell, saying: “There is no veracity in the news of an open sewer in Khan’s cell or rats in Bushra’s.”
The authorities said the PTI founder was allowed to meet family, lawyers as well as hold political meetings twice a week.
Also on the occasion of case hearings the PTI founder met those who attended the hearings in the jail, the official maintained.
The jail official said Khan also had the facility of television in his prison cell.
The jail’s remarks come after PTI Senator Muhammad Ali Khan Saif claimed that his leader is being deprived of basic facilities.
The senator said he called on Khan at the prison and found he was encountering problems there.
The PTI founder was not given the facilities that President Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif enjoyed during their respective jail terms, he maintained.
“The PTI founder is suffering from ear pain. He’s not being provided an electric toothbrush and a dumbbell for exercise,” he said.
Saif said the ex-premier was not being allowed to talk to his sons as well over the phone.
He conveyed the workers’ sentiments to the PTI supremo, saying that they were dejected after the August 22 public rally was postponed abruptly.
The PTI founder ordered him to make the party leaders sit down and resolve internal issues, he said.
