Hanif Abbasi shifted to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat prison

Abbasi shifted due to lack of suitable medical facilities in Attock

Authorities on Thursday shifted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ( PML-N) leader Hanif Abbas to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat prison, reported Express News.

Confirming the report, Punjab Inspector General of Prisons Shahid Baig said the senior PML-N leader had complained of cardiac pain, after which he was shifted to a hospital and a cardiac stent was implanted.

Baig added that as Abbasi's condition did not improve after the procedure and due to the unavailability of suitable medical facilities in Attock, the decision to transfer the incarcerated leader to Lahore was taken.



Abbasi had 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.

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.

Abbasi has been serving a life sentence since July after being convicted by an anti-narcotics court in the 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.