Karachi: Leader of Opposition in Pakistan’s Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh’s latest time spent in prison has changed his life in two ways: Firstly, he has to undergo a major surgery for an injury he sustained in jail that remained unattended and his new mission to free the wrongfully or unduly imprisoned inmates who he met during the confinement.
Haleem Adil Sheikh underwent a major surgery at the private AO Clinic and Hospital in Karachi where a fellow lawmaker of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Dr Imran Ali Shah, who is also a renowned orthopaedic surgeon, performed the operation.
A metallic plate in one of the legs of Haleem Adil Sheikh that was inserted following an accident had to be removed.
A spokesman for the opposition leader said the surgery had become inevitable because of the infection caused due to an injury Sheikh sustained during his latest prison time.
He said the surgery could have been avoided had Haleem Adil Sheikh been given proper treatment at Karachi jail. He said that doctors belonging to two major public health facilities in the city had examined Haleem during imprisonment but after the check-up, he hadn’t been given any treatment.
The spokesman was of the view that the denial of treatment facilities to Haleem Adil Sheikh violated the court orders. ‘It was to further victimize him on political grounds because he vocally opposed bad governance in the province,” he said.
Dr Shah, who performed the surgery, said in a tweet that the operation was a success and Haleem Adil Sheikh will soon be taken home.
Meanwhile, Ayesha Haleem Adil Sheikh, the daughter of the opposition leader, said that her father suring his jail term heard many ‘unbelievable’ stories of fellow inmates.
She said that he came back from the prison with the commitment that he would work for the release of the inmates who had been wrongfully languishing in the jail.
She said that just four days after his release, her father was able to ensure the release of 10 innocent people from jail.
The spokesman said the Haleem was helping out the inmates whose incarceration had been continuing due to unpaid fines and lack of lawyers who could plead their cases in courts.
