ISLAMABAD – A delegation of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) today metSharif, Maryam and Safdar as ‘observers’ to assess the conditions they areliving in Adiala Jail.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, PBC vice chairman Kamran Murtazasaid Sharif and his daughter Maryam are both being kept in isolation, awayfrom other prisoners. There is a distance of half a kilometre betweenSharif and Maryam’s barracks, he added.
He quoted Sharif as saying that he was made to sleep on the floor on a thinmattress on his first night in jail.
“According to him, the room was stinking and the washroom was in a badstate,” Murtaza said. Maryam and Sharif met today (Thursday) for the firsttime after their last meeting on Sunday, he added.
He said a cook prepares the food for the Sharifs from the ration that issent from their home. However, he said the Sharifs complained that they arenot asked about their food requirements in advance and the food ingredients”start to stink” by the time they are handed over to them.
Murtaza said the council’s objective is to see justice being meted out toeveryone and that “the justice should be seen”.
Murtaza said they will contact the interior ministry through the attorneygeneral, and the jailer, to have the issues faced by the Sharifs in thejail resolved.
Besides Murtaza, the delegation comprised former presidents of the SupremeCourt Bar Association Abdul Lateef Afridi and Muhammad Yasin Azad, PBCmember Azam Nazeer Tarar and Sindh High Court Bar Association ex-presidentKhalid Javed.