After his conviction and detention in a corruption case, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been held in a small bug-infested cell with an open lavatory at the high-security Attock jail in Punjab province.
According to Khan’s attorney, Naeem Haider Panjotha, the 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman has been given ‘C-class’ treatment at the Punjab province jail. He claimed that the detention cell where the former captain of the country’s world champion cricket team is being detained is filled with flies and cockroaches. He is in a small room “which has an open washroom”, Panjotha said after meeting Khan in prison.
“The PTI chairman says he is ready to spend his whole life in jail,” the lawyer was quoted as saying by Geo News.
Panjotha added that Khan told him that while they were at his Lahore home, police did not present him with a warrant for arrest and attempted to smash the door of his wife’s room.
He met Khan for an hour and 45 minutes in the presence of a jail official to obtain his signatures on legal paper in preparation for filing appeals against Khan’s conviction.
The lawyer told the media that Khan informed him that he has been kept in a dark room with an open toilet, frequented by flies during the day and ants at night. “I have been kept in a dark room with no television or newspaper available. Nobody is allowed to meet me as if I am a terrorist,” Panjotha quoted Khan as saying.