Staff Reporter
Lahore
PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz on Thursday claimed that she was fed “rat-contaminated food” when she was incarcerated in the Punjab capital’s Kot Lakhpat Jail.
In an informal conversation with journalists in Jati Umrah, Maryam Nawaz complained of the medication she was given in the prison, saying it was “not fit for use at all”.
“I was forced to take fungus-infected medicines in prison,” she claimed. In startling claims earlier this month, Maryam had also alleged the installation of cameras in her jail cell.
Speaking of her grandmother, Begum Shamim Akhtar, who had passed away aged 89 over the weekend, the PML-N leader said she had spoken to her over video call two or three days before her death. “My grandmother’s memory had become weak,” she said.
“The last time I talked to my grandmother, she was asking if I had been released from jail; my grandmother thought I was still in prison,” Maryam said, referring to last year when she was incarcerated in the Central Jail Lahore. Maryam was released from jail in November 2019.
“My grandparents loved Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif very much,” she added, noting how Begum Shamim Akhtar had travelled to London to see the PML-N supremo despite her doctors advising against it.
