PTI chief to be moved to Adiala jail, says PTI

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters): Pakistani authorities were preparing on Monday to move the former prime minister and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman to Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail, a prison with better facilities, on the order of the Islamabad High Court, his party said on Monday.

His legal team and party had been pleading with several courts to issue orders for the former premier to be shifted to Adiala jail , which they argued was more appropriate for a former premier.

“Arrangements are taking place,” his close aide Zulfikar Bukhari said in a message to journalists, referring to preparations to move the former premier after Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Panjutha, said a high court in the capital had ordered the move.

Panjutha later wrote on the social media platform ‘X’ that PTI chairman had been moved to the new prison but then deleted that post.

He has been detained in a low-key, colonial-era prison in the northwestern Attock district that lacked facilities like an attached bathroom and television and made it harder for family and friends to visit or send newspapers, books or food.

The former prime minister has been in jail since early August after being convicted on corruption charges.

A court suspended his three-year prison term, but his release on bail did not happen as authorities charged him in another case related to leaking state secrets.

Khan says the charges are designed to stop him from running in an election early next year, an allegation the authorities deny.

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