Lahore: A day after Imran Khan’s sons alleged that their father was in a ‘death cell’ and the authorities were trying to conceal ‘something irreversible’, the former Pakistani Prime Minister said that he fears for his life in Adiala Jail.
“The military establishment has done all they could against me. All that is left for them is to now murder me,” Imran said, according to a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) statement which was released after the former met his sister Uzma Khan.
The PTI founder, serving a 14-year sentence in the Al-Qadir Trust graft case, has also been convicted in other corruption-related cases.
Imran alleged that he is being held in conditions similar to an inmate on death row and claimed the military leadership would be responsible if anything happened to him.
“If anything happens to me, the Army Chief and DG ISI will be responsible. I have the same facilities that an inmate on death row has,” his party quoted Imran as saying.
“I was tortured by being confined in a cage and treated worse than animals. Electricity to my cell was shut off for five days. I was confined to the cell for ten days,” he said.
Imran also accused the super powerful Army chief of political persecution. “Asim Munir is the most tyrannical dictator in history and is mentally unstable,” Imran claimed.
Uzma was allowed to meet Imran inside the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, located a short distance from Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ).
The meeting between the ex-PM and his sister lasted around 30 minutes, sources told CNN-News18. According to people close to Uzma, Imran appeared “fine, fit, and in high spirits.”
