Supreme Court docket grants jailed ex-PM Imran Khan switch to hospital for almost a month after issues have been raised over his blood stress.
Printed On 18 Aug 2026
Islamabad, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Supreme Court docket on Tuesday ordered the switch of Imran Khan, former prime minister and founding father of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering, from Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail to Islamabad’s Shifa Worldwide Hospital inside two days, accepting a requirement his social gathering had been making for months.
Uzair Bhandari, one in every of Khan’s attorneys, informed Al Jazeera the three-member bench additionally ordered a medical board be shaped to supervise Khan’s therapy, together with the ex-prime minister’s sister, Dr Uzma Khan, and his private doctor, Dr Faisal Sultan.
“The court docket additionally directed that Khan’s household be allowed to satisfy him on the hospital and that he be permitted to talk along with his sons, who stay overseas,” Bhandari stated.
The following listening to has been fastened for September 16, and Khan ought to stay hospitalised till a minimum of then as per the order, in response to the lawyer. This would be the longest interval that Khan will probably be bodily exterior jail premises since he was imprisoned in August 2023, convicted in a number of corruption-related instances that he and his social gathering insist are politically motivated.
The order adopted a report Adiala jail’s superintendent submitted to the court docket on Monday, detailing a cardiac board’s August 10 assessment of Khan, 73, which recorded fluctuating blood stress and nervousness linked to restricted contact along with his household.
Throughout Tuesday’s listening to, the court docket pressed Pakistan’s advocate normal over gaps within the report, saying Khan’s “pulse and coronary heart situation weren’t regular” and that his important organs “had began being affected”.
Courts had twice declined comparable switch requests since February, together with an Islamabad Excessive Court docket ruling that ordered a medical board’s evaluation as a substitute.
Zulfi Bukhari, a senior PTI chief, informed Al Jazeera the ruling bolstered the social gathering’s longstanding place that Khan wanted impartial, specialised therapy exterior Adiala jail.
“Medical care supplied inside the jail system is not any substitute for a radical analysis by impartial specialists of his selecting,” he stated, including that PTI had persistently known as for Khan’s switch to Shifa Worldwide and entry to his personal docs.
Authorities officers have insisted any switch required judicial authorisation fairly than government discretion.
Rana Sanaullah, adviser to the prime minister, informed the Senate on Monday that Khan was receiving “one of the best out there medical therapy” and that his situation didn’t assist PTI’s issues.
The order lands amid a wider standoff over entry to Khan, which PTI has more and more framed because the precondition for reviving talks with the federal government. The federal government, for its half, has renewed efforts to have interaction in dialogue however to no avail as but, whereas PTI management has introduced a national protest on September 27.
