PTI founder serving a total of 31 years sentence in multiple cases in Adiala Jail
- Decision against meetings taken by Punjab Home Ministry.
- Ex-premier serving a total of 31 years sentence in Adiala jail.
- CTD arrested three terrorists with facility’s map, explosives.
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has been barred from holdings meetings inside Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail for two weeks, Geo News reported citing sources on Tuesday.
The development comes as Khan, who was moved to the Adiala jail in September 2023 from Attock jail, is serving an accumulative sentence of 31 years in various cases and has been engaging his lawyers, party leaders and family members during his imprisonment as previously the authorities had allocated Monday and Thursdays for meetings.
The ex-prime minister, along with former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, were handed down a sentence of 10 years each in the cipher case in January for for publishing contents of a secret cable sent by the country’s ambassador in Washington to the government in Islamabad.
This was followed by another 14-year sentence awarded to Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, by an accountability court in the Toshakhana reference for misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to buy and sell gifts in state possession that were received during visits abroad and worth more than Rs140 million ($635,000).
The court also handed down a fine of Rs1.57 billion — Rs787 million each — to the couple.
Subsequently, Khan and Bushra were also sentenced to another seven years, along with a Rs500,000 penalty each, in in the “un-Islamic nikah” case for marrying each other before the completion of the 90-day iddat period following the latter’s divorce.
Furthermore, the PTI founder along with his wife were indicted in the the £190 million case during the jail trial that was conducted in the Adiala jail as well.
Khan’s party and associates in recent months have time again demanded his release from “fabricated” cases while raising concerns for the former premier’s safety inside the prison.
Last week, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested three terrorists and recovered a map of Adiala Jail, a hand grenade and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from their possession.
Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CPO) Khalid Hamdani said police recovered automatic weapons and ammunition from the terrorists who hailed from Afghanistan.
Before that in November, police had found a suspicious bag laden with an explosive device near Adiala Road in Gorakhpur, Rawalpindi, just one kilometre away from the facility.
