Hanif Abbasi shifted to Attock Jail over Adiala 'photo leak'

Move comes on request of committee probing presence of Abbasi in jail superintendent office


News Desk September 22, 2018
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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi has been moved to Attock Jail following a controversy over a ‘leaked’ photo of him lounging with party supremo Nawaz Sharif at Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail, Express News reported on Saturday.

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The decision to shift Abbasi came on the request of a two-member committee constituted by the Punjab government to probe the 'photo leak', which also featured Maryam Nawaz and Captain (retd) Safdar Awan sitting in the superintendent’s office.

In the photo, the Sharif family members can be seen waiting to be released following an Islamabad High Court (IHC) order suspending the sentences handed down to the pair by an accountability court in the Avenfield corruption reference. The probe committee, comprising DIG Feroze Shaukat and AIG Safdar Nawaz, has been tasked with investigating why Abbasi was allowed into the administration block and who took the image.

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Abbasi has been serving a life-term at the Adiala Jail since July after an anti-narcotics court convicted him in an eight-year-old ephedrine case. The case involved illegal allocation of ephedrine quotas worth Rs7 billion to two pharmaceutical companies – Berlex Lab International and Danas Pharmaceutical.

COMMENTS (5)

Mahmood Khan | 5 years ago | Reply Hanif Abbasi is a serious culprit involved in corruption in ephaderine black market case. He must be jailed with RI and must not be provided any VIP facilities. Furthermore just keeping him in jail will not serve the purpose. He should be caught by neck to extract the corruption money which he is holding. After that he may be released and debarred for any political activities for life.
ishrat salim | 5 years ago | Reply And what happened to the jail Supdt ? who allowed them in their office in the first place.
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