A possibility has arisen that Incarcerated former Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan might be shifted from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi to Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, a leading Urdu Newspaper reported on Wednesday.

 

The newspaper reported that the Punjab government has made a basic change in prison regulations, saying that accused/convicted individuals will serve their sentences in their respective residential cities/districts.

 

As per the newspaper, prior to shifting Imran Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), to Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore, several factors will be reviewed.

 

Imran Khan has access to multiple facilities at Adiala Jail. He has not been placed in a death cell or solitary confinement, and he continues to receive food and other amenities without interruption, claimed the newspaper.

 

The newspaper further reported that jail administration anywhere in the world couldn’t even imagine cutting off a prisoner’s light in any barrack, as doing so would pose a security threat.

 

The development comes four days after Imran Khan wrote a second open letter to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Syed Asim Munir, complaining about the shortage of facilities in his cell.

 

“I was placed in solitary confinement under extreme conditions for 20 days… in a cell where even sunlight could not reach. For five days, my cell’s electricity was cut off, leaving me in complete darkness,” Imran Khan wrote in his letter, which is available on his X (formerly Twitter) account.

 
“My exercise equipment and television were confiscated, and I was denied access to newspapers… apart from those 20 days, I was also kept in solitary for 40 hours,” he said and added that he had only been allowed to talk to his sons three times over the past six months despite a court order allowing him to contact his children regularly.

 

On May 9, 2023, Imran Khan was arrested from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises in the Al Qadir Trust case, better known as the £190 million case. However, after a brief detention, he was released.

 

On August 5, 2023, Imran Khan was again arrested from his residence at Zaman Park Lahore shortly after his conviction in the Toshakhana case and had been held in Attock jail.

 

Following the IHC directives, the former premier was shifted to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on September 27, 2023. Currently, he is held in jail under high security and with B-Class facilities due to his status as a former premier.