However, it said there were so many sex offenders at the prison they were now having to bekept elsewhere in the jail until space on G wing became available.
Pakistani police who produced Mr. Musharraf to another court hearing on Friday morning have asked that the former president bekeptin custody in his home, saying that his security would be at risk injail, Pakistan's state radio said.
But any intention to release the prisoner seemed to violate an agreement made with Israel in 2002 allowing for Mr Saadat to bekeptin a Palestinian rather than Israeli jail, as long as American and British monitors were present.