Caretaker Punjab Law Minister Zia Haider on Tuesday sent an embarrassing reply to former Chief Minister Shahbaz Shari's letter to Punjab Government, with regard to poor facilities given to former minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in -law, saying Nawaz Sharif has been provided facilities already made available to prisoners by PML-N Punjab government in Adiala jail for the last 8 years.
It may be added that Shahbaz Sharif had written to caretaker set-up, stating that Nawaz Sharif had been kept in "abysmal conditions" and deprived of a newspaper and bed and uses a "dirty" washroom in the high-security Adiala prison in Rawalpindi, after conviction in Avenfield Reference. Shahbaz complained that no attendant was provided and medical facility also was not up to the mark to take care of Sharif who is a heart and diabetic patient.
Responding to the demand the law minister said that Nawaz Sharif has been provided facilities already made available to prisoners by PML-N Punjab Government for consecutive to four-year. Blaming Shari's regime for the poor state of jails, Haider asserted that it was onus of PML-N government to take measures towards improving infrastructure and availability of basic jail facilities where they failed to do the needful. He, however, told Shahbaz Sharif that measures by caretaker government were on to providing proper facilities to make jail conditions better.