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The Punjab government on Tuesday imposed a two-week ban on all public visits, meetings and interviews at Rawalpindi\u2019s Adiala jail citing \u201csecurity\u201d threats \u2014 a move decried by PTI leaders, who deemed it a deliberate plan to stop them from meeting party founder Imran Khan, who is currently incarcerated at the facility.<\/p>\n
In a letter written to the Punjab prisons chief, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com<\/em>, the Punjab Home Department said its Internal Security Wing conveyed that \u201cthere exist different types of threats to [the] security of Adiala jail as some anti-state terrorist groups supported by the enemies of Pakistan have planned to conduct targeted attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a security measure against the aforementioned attacks\u201d, the department requested the prison chief to \u201cstop the public visits\/meetings\/interviews within the Adiala Jail immediately for two weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n The decision was taken days after the Rawalpindi Cou\u00adnter Terrorism Depart\u00adment (CTD) and the police foiled<\/a> what they claimed was an attempt to attack the jail, arresting three terrorists.<\/p>\n Besides Imran, fellow senior PTI leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Parvez Elahi<\/a> are also detained at the Adiala jail.<\/p>\n