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| Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
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| Security class | Maximum |
| Capacity | 4000<ref name=capacity/> |
| Opened | 1965 |
| Managed by | Government of Punjab, Pakistan |
| Director | Ijaz Asghar<ref>"Human hand found in sehri for prisoners". The Nation. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.</ref> |
| Notable prisoners | |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto<br>Sardar Bhagat Singh <br>Rasool Bux Palijo<br/>Javed Iqbal<br/>Yusuf Kazzab<br>Nawaz Sharif<br>Imran Khan<br>Jatindra Nath Das <br>Saad Hussain Rizvi <br> Hafiz Saeed | |
Kot Lakhpat Jail, officially known as Central Jail Lahore, is a prison located at Kot Lakhpat in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
The jail houses more than four times the 4,000 prisoner capacity it was built for.
History
Some prisoners died in the prison in the past, including Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of terrorism.<ref name=capacity>"Sarabjit Singh critical after Lahore jail attack". Gulf Times. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2022.</ref><ref>"Inspector General of Prisons (Punjab)". Punjab Prisons (Pakistan) website. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.</ref>
Notable prisoners
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Sardar Bhagat Singh
- Rasool Bux Palijo
- Javed Iqbal
- Yusuf Kazzab
- Nawaz Sharif, imprisoned in 2018 after conviction in Panama Papers case<ref>"Nawaz Sharif shifted to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail". 25 December 2018.</ref>
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Saad Hussain Rizvi
- Hafiz Saeed
- Imran Khan, imprisoned in 2023 after conviction in Cypher No. I-0678