LONDON: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s eldest son Hussain Nawaz has said that he spent eight months in extremely harsh conditions without any access to legal aid or justice in the same Attock jail where Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is now imprisoned after his conviction for corrupt practices in the Toshakhana case.
“I, Shehbaz Sharif, Sardar Mahtab Ahmed Khan, Azam Hoti and Dr Farooq Sattar were imprisoned in the same jail and in the same cells by former dictator Pervez Musharraf. Shehbaz Sharif was there for about four months and I spent eight months there from April 2000 to December 2000,” Hussain told media.
He added that it used to be either extremely hot and humid or extremely cold in Attock jail.
“Neither I was told what my crime was nor anyone told me why I was imprisoned when I was freed from there and forced into exile; there was no court order, no law, no justice, no case and no human rights for us; I was arrested and imprisoned illegally and forced out illegally too,” said the former prime minister’s son.
When asked to comment on complaints made by the PTI chief about the jail conditions, Nawaz’s son said he endorsed his uncle Prime Minister Shehbaz’s stance that one should not celebrate anyone else’s difficulty as it can dawn upon anyone at any time.
