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  • Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan is getting mutton and chicken with desi ghee in jail

    IMRAN IN ATTOCK JAIL

    How is former Prime Minister of Pakistan and PTI Chief Imran Khan living in jail? His fans want to know about this. Meanwhile, according to the news coming out quoting Pakistani media, many facilities are now being provided to Imran Khan in jail also.

    IMRAN KHAN Attock Jail photo

    It is being told that the Attorney General Office of the Supreme Court of Pakistan said that Khan is being served mutton and chicken cooked in desi ghee inside the jail. Let us discuss here that recently Punjab IG Prison Mian Farooq Nazir had visited Attock jail to know the condition of Imran Khan. After his visit, orders were also given to remove the cameras installed in Imran Khan’s barrack. This is so that their privacy is not violated.

    Imran Khan

    Local media reported on Tuesday that former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is being served desi chicken and mutton in Attock jail. The Supreme Court of Pakistan, which had earlier sought a report on Imran Khan’s living conditions, was informed that the jail authorities were providing him proper security. Let us discuss here that after being proven guilty in the Toshakhana case, Imran Khan was sentenced to three years of imprisonment, after which he was arrested and kept in Attock jail. According to the jail administration, Imran Khan has been given the facility of bed, chair, air cooler, prayer room, copy of Quran, books, newspapers, food, personal belongings and a medical team in the jail.

    Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan

    Earlier, after former Prime Minister Imran Khan complained to the court about poor living facilities and lack of privacy, a new toilet was built in his cell. A door was also installed in this five feet high toilet. A senior jail officer of the Punjab government had given information in this regard recently. The judge had expressed concern that there was no privacy for Khan in the toilet. It was told that a new toilet has been built in the room of PTI Chairman. The wall of the toilet is five feet high and a door has also been installed.

    Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan

    If you remember, Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi had recently said that Imran Khan’s health is deteriorating rapidly in jail and his life is in danger. He had expressed apprehension that Imran Khan might be poisoned in jail. It is noteworthy that Imran Khan was arrested from his Lahore residence on 5th August.

  • Big relief to Imran Khan from Islamabad High Court, order for release in Toshakhana case

    Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has got a big relief from Islamabad High Court. Islamabad High Court has reversed the decision of the lower court and granted him bail. The division bench of Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri gave this much-awaited decision. The division bench had reserved its decision on Monday after hearing the arguments of both the parties on Imran’s petition challenging the lower court’s decision in the case. It is noteworthy that a sessions court in Islamabad had sentenced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party Chairman Imran Khan to three years in jail on August 5 in the Toshakhana corruption case.

    It is noteworthy that the Islamabad High Court has given its verdict on Tuesday on the petition requested by former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to suspend his three-year jail sentence in the Toshakhana corruption case. Under which Imran Khan has got bail. Let us tell you, the division bench of Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri had reserved its decision on the petition on Monday after hearing the arguments of both the parties. The division bench had later said that the verdict would be pronounced on Tuesday at 11 am. A sessions court in Islamabad had on August 5 sentenced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, 70, to three years in jail in the Toshakhana corruption case.

    Ban on contesting elections!

    Cricketer-turned-politician Imran was sentenced after finding him guilty of illegally selling state gifts received by him and his family during his tenure as Prime Minister between 2018 and 2022. The PTI chief was also banned from taking part in political activities for the next five years, due to which he will not be able to contest the upcoming elections. Imran has challenged the lower court’s decision in the Islamabad High Court.

    Imran’s lawyer Latif Khosa had completed his arguments against his conviction on Thursday and stressed that the verdict was given very hastily and was full of flaws. He had urged the court to set aside the verdict, but the defense had sought more time to complete its arguments. Many people believe that after the Supreme Court has exposed several flaws in the order convicting Imran, the High Court’s decision may come in favor of the former Prime Minister.

    What is Toshakhana case?

    Toshakhana is a department under the Cabinet Division, where gifts given to rulers and government officials by heads of other governments and foreign dignitaries are kept. If the ruler or government official wants to keep that gift privately, then he has to pay an amount equal to the value of that gift. Which will be decided through auction. Whatever amount is received in the auction is deposited in the national treasury. In this series, after becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the year 2018, Imran Khan had received 58 gifts worth about Rs 14 crore during his official visits. Imran Khan is accused of buying those precious gifts from Toshakhana at a cheap price and selling them in the market at a higher price.

    After the removal of Imran Khan from power, the ruling government raised the Toshakhana issue in the National Assembly and demanded action against Imran Khan. Later the Speaker of the Assembly ordered an investigation against Imran Khan. After the framing of charges, Imran Khan also lost his membership in Parliament.

    Who is Imran Khan?

    The full name of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan is Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi. He is a Pakistani politician. He is also the founder and president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party. Imran Khan was born in 1952 in Lahore, Pakistan. Before being a politician, Imran Khan was a famous Pakistani cricketer, who also made the Pakistani team the world champion in the World Cup. In 2013, he entered Pakistani politics and contested the election for the post of Prime Minister of Pakistan under the PTI flag. In the elections held in 2018, PTI party registered a big victory and Imran Khan was accepted as the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

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  • Pakistan News: Imran Khan’s judicial custody extended till September 13 in confidential message case

    A special court in Pakistan on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of former Prime Minister Imran Khan till September 13 in a case related to the alleged disclosure of classified messages, leading to his early release from jail despite getting bail a day earlier in a corruption case. Hopes were dashed.

    Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain gives verdict in the case of missing documents related to confidential message

    Judge Abul Hasnat Zulkarnain, who reached Punjab’s Attock jail for the hearing, gave the verdict in the case of missing documents related to confidential messages. This document was waved by Khan during a political rally before his ouster last year.

    The hearing took place in Attock District Jail

    The hearing of the case was held in Attock District Jail after the approval of the Law Ministry amid security concerns expressed by the Home Ministry. According to Geo News, Judge Zulqarnain extended Khan’s judicial custody till September 13, which means he will remain in jail for now.

    Former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was also given judicial custody for 14 days in the same case.

    The court, recently set up to hear cases filed under the Official Secrets Act, also sent Khan’s close aide and two-time foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to 14-day judicial custody in the same case.

    Imran Khan is in jail since August 5

    Qureshi, 67, vice president of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was arrested in August. He appeared in the court amid tight security. Authorities on Tuesday decided to hear the case inside the Attock district jail, where Khan, 70, is lodged since August 5 after his conviction in a corruption case.

    Imran got bail in a case

    On Tuesday, a two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court had suspended Khan’s sentence, but he could not be released as the judge hearing the case related to the disclosure of confidential messages ordered him to be kept in jail and produced for trial. Had ordered.

    Permission was given to enter the jail and meet Khan

    Khan’s five-member legal team, headed by lawyer Salman Safdar, attended the court hearing in jail, the report said. According to reports, the team was initially denied entry, but was later allowed to enter the jail and meet Khan.

    Only three lawyers were allowed to represent the former Prime Minister

    Khan’s party said only three lawyers were allowed to represent the former prime minister during the hearing. Khan’s lawyer Sher Afzal Marwat filed the petition saying that the Law and Justice Ministry’s August 29 notification on holding trials inside jail was against the law as it violates the spirit of open trial.

    The appointment of the judge of the court is also challenged

    He argued that the proceedings should be held in the judicial complex in Islamabad and if the purpose is to keep the proceedings secret then the hearing should be held in camera. Khan also challenged the appointment of an anti-terrorism court judge as a judge in the special court set up for his case registered under the country’s Official Secrets Act.

    Many people were made defendants

    Khan made the Law and Justice Ministry, the Home Ministry, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency, the Commissioner of Islamabad, the Islamabad Inspector General of Police and the superintendents of Adiala and Attock jails as defendants in the case.

    PTI spokesperson Zulfikar Bukhari said in a statement, “When Imran Khan requested to use technology for his daily hearing, it was broadcast as if he was trying to avoid it. Now, the hearing has been ordered from his jail cell. Why can’t this be done live on TV or at least in the presence of their friends and family.”

    He said, “The world should see whether there is any element of justice in this illegal trial. The plan was to crush and eliminate PTI…Instead the Constitution and the law were brutally murdered…” The case initiated earlier this month alleged that Khan and others secretly Violated relevant laws.

    In March last year, ahead of the vote on the no-confidence motion, Khan took out a piece of paper from his pocket and waved it at a public rally in Islamabad, claiming it was proof that there was an “international conspiracy” to topple his government. A conspiracy is being hatched. Khan had to be removed from power due to the no-confidence motion. However, during questioning by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in jail on August 26, Khan had denied that the paper he had waved at a public meeting last year was a confidential document. He had also admitted the loss of the confidential document and said that he did not remember where he had kept it.