‘Take Me Out Of Here; Don’t Want To Remain In Jail,’ Former Pak PM Imran Khan Tells Lawyers

New Delhi: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has told his lawyers to take him out from the Attock jail as he does not want to remain in a cell that is infested with flies during the day and insects at night. Khan, charged with corruption in the Toshakhana case and sentenced to three years, is unhappy and worried as he remains holed up in his prison cell, news agency PTI reported.

The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was arrested on Saturday shortly after an Islamabad trial court found him guilty of “corrupt practices” in the case. Khan has appealed his conviction by filing a plea at the Islamabad High Court. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)chairman has asked his legal team that he does not wish to remain in prison, Geo News quoted sources in the Attock jail privy to the meeting between Khan and his lawyer as saying.

“Take me out of here; I don’t want to remain in jail,” the officials quoted Khan, as saying.

Khan’s counsel Naeem Haider Panjotha was granted access by the jail authorities Monday to meet him, who after seeing the PTI chairman said that the former premier was being kept in “distressing” conditions provided “C-Class jail facilities”. Panjotha said that Khan was in high morale despite all such difficulties and vowed to spend his lifetime in jail but wouldn’t bow to slavery.

However, the report added quoting sources that the PTI chairman, during the meeting with his lawyer, conveyed his concerns regarding the environment at the prison with flies taking over his cell during the day and insects at night. The former prime minister was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore after being convicted with accusations of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to buy and sell gifts in state possession that were received during visits abroad and worth more than Rs 140 million (USD 635,000).

Khan denies the allegations against him.