What is the historical significance of Adiala Jail, which has become the residence of another former prime minister of pakistan?
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been transferred from Attock Jail to Adiala Jail on the orders of Islamabad High Court.
It should be remembered that on August 4, Imran Khan was arrested from his residence in Lahore after being sentenced to three years in prison and fined in the Tosha Khana case and transferred to the jail of Attock, the border district of Punjab province. However, later a request was filed in the High Court to transfer the former prime minister to Adiala Jail on behalf of his lawyers.
The Islamabad High Court had given a short judgment in this regard on Monday, after which a written order was issued on Tuesday morning, in which the notification to keep the former prime minister in Attock jail was null and void.
It should be remembered that on August 29, the Islamabad High Court suspended the sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Tosha Khana case and ordered his release on bail. was ordered to be detained. The special court hearing the cipher case on Tuesday (today) has extended his judicial remand till October 10.
The petition filed by Chairman PTI in this regard was heard by Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Amir Farooq. The court has said in its written decision that Chairman PTI Imran Khan should be provided all the facilities he is entitled to in Adiala Jail.
Adiala Jail is actually Central Jail Rawalpindi and it is called Adiala Jail because a village Adiala in Rawalpindi district is located at a distance of about four kilometers from it hence its name Adiala Jail.
This Jail is situated near village Dehgal at a distance of about 13 km from District Courts on Rawalpindi Adiala Road and is the old District Jail Rawalpindi.
It was built in the late 1970s and early 1980s during the regime of Pakistan's military dictator General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
Earlier, the district jail of Rawalpindi was located at the place where Jinnah Park is located today and it was the same jail in which former Prime Minister of the country Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was imprisoned during the regime of military dictator General Ziaul Haq and was hanged adjacent to this jail. He was also hanged at the ghat.
In the years following the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, this jail was dismantled and a park was built here and in 1986 the jail was shifted to Adiala.
The name of Adiala Jail has always resonated in Pakistani politics. This is the prison where many important politicians including three prime ministers of the country have been imprisoned and now Imran Khan is the fourth prime minister who will have to stay in this prison.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif was imprisoned twice in this prison. He was first imprisoned here for some time after the military coup in the country in 1999 when he was convicted in the plane conspiracy case and was also imprisoned in the Attock Fort.
Adiala Jail became Nawaz Sharif's abode for the second time after his conviction in the Panama case. After this decision, Nawaz Sharif was imprisoned in Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore apart from Adiala Jail.
On this occasion, his daughter Maryam Nawaz was also imprisoned in Adiala Jail. Former President Asif Ali Zardari has also spent some time of his life in Adiala Jail.
Senior leader of People's Party and former Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani also spent more than a year and a half in Adiala Jail from September 2004 to 2006 and he also wrote a book during his stay.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif was also imprisoned in Adiala Jail during the Musharraf era, while former Shahid Khaqan Abbasi also spent some time here.
Apart from this, the current federal minister and senior leader of Muslim League-N, Saad Rafique, was also imprisoned in Adiala Jail for some time during the Musharraf era, while Javed Hashmi was also imprisoned in Adiala Jail for a few months during the exile of Nawaz Sharif.
Apart from them, ex-chairman NAB Saifur Rehman, mastermind of November 8 Mumbai attacks Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and ex-governor Salman Taseer's killer Mumtaz Qadri and well-known model Ayan Ali in the money laundering case have also served the prison sentence here.
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