Lahore:
On Saturday, the Punjab Home Department categorically refused a report published in the UK online newspaper The Independent of the “Inhuman” treatment that was met for PTI cartridge-I-chief Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi during their imprisonment, saying both husband and wife “received full legal rights”.
While talking to the British newspaper, Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari said a close help to Imran, PTI Foundation President and his wife had been exposed to “psychological” torment in prison. Bibi was “seriously ill,” he said, and “fainted in prison” because of the heat almost two weeks ago.
Bukhari told The Independent that even the water delivered to Bibi for Ablusion had “got mud and sand and dirt inside it, intentionally.”
In January, Khan and Bibi were sentenced to 14 and seven years in prison in the reference of £ 190.
In response to the article, the Punjab Home Department stated that both Khan and Bibi received “full legal rights” in prison.
In a statement, it called the requirements made in the British online newspaper as “baseless, politically charged and actually wrong”.
The Punjab Home Department maintained that both Khan and Bibi had been given class-A-prison facilities and had access to uninterrupted electricity without load. The department added that they are undergoing daily medical control and receiving full medical support.
The declaration also noted that food was served in accordance with their personal preferences, while legal and family visits were allowed in accordance with legal decisions. Both prisoners are back in the same cell since their arrival and have not been moved or isolated, it says.
To denote the report an attempt to “mislead global audiences”, the Punjab Home Department emphasized that Pakistan maintains prisoners in accordance with legal and humanitarian standards.
