What facilities does Imran Khan have in Attock Jail? Although jail life is not pleasant, high-profile inmates—typically politicians and businessmen—benefit from privileges and amenities that are not available to other people.
Imran Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan and the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf is the most recent prominent person to be imprisoned.
The populist politician was detained shortly after receiving a three-year prison sentence from a trial court.
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Following his immediate detention, the former cricket star was transported from Lahore to Attock Jail by road in a stretched caravan.
Security of Attock Jail and its surroundings have been beefed up by heavily-guarded law-enforcement personnel.
What facilities does Imran Khan have in Attock Jail?
Khan, 70, is renowned for having a ten-acre estate in the capital with a breathtaking view of Islamabad’s Margalla Hills, but the former prime no longer has access to such a sizable space.
According to media sources, the PTI head was given access to a VVIP cell. The cell contains a fan, a bed, and a bathroom inside but no air conditioning or room cooling system.
The PTI chairman is the first former prime minister to have been detained in the Attock jail; in the 1990s, Nawaz Sharif, the former premier and PML-N leader, was detained there.
Attock Prison, presently a high-security facility, is said to have been established by British authorities to house mutiny suspects.
It’s interesting to note that the current prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, was detained at the Attock jail in 1999, when he was the chief minister of Punjab and was incarcerated in a graft case.
Azam Khan, Dr. Farooq Sattar, former KP CM Sardar Mehtab, Hussain Nawaz of Nawaz Sharif, and Hussain Nawaz’s father, Nawaz Sharif, all remained to be detained in prison.
