Supreme Court docket grants jailed ex-PM Imran Khan switch to hospital for practically a month after considerations 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) occasion, from Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail to Islamabad’s Shifa Worldwide Hospital inside two days, accepting a requirement his occasion had been making for months.
Uzair Bhandari, certainly one of Khan’s legal professionals, advised Al Jazeera the three-member bench additionally ordered a medical board be fashioned to supervise Khan’s therapy, together with the ex-prime minister’s sister, Dr Uzma Khan, and his private doctor, Dr Faisal Sultan.
“The courtroom additionally directed that Khan’s household be allowed to fulfill 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 keeping with the lawyer. This would be the longest interval that Khan will likely be bodily exterior jail premises since he was imprisoned in August 2023, convicted in a number of corruption-related instances that he and his occasion insist are politically motivated.
The order adopted a report Adiala jail’s superintendent submitted to the courtroom on Monday, detailing a cardiac board’s August 10 evaluate of Khan, 73, which recorded fluctuating blood stress and anxiousness linked to restricted contact along with his household.
Throughout Tuesday’s listening to, the courtroom pressed Pakistan’s advocate common 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 related switch requests since February, together with an Islamabad Excessive Court docket ruling that ordered a medical board’s evaluation as an alternative.
Zulfi Bukhari, a senior PTI chief, advised Al Jazeera the ruling bolstered the occasion’s longstanding place that Khan wanted unbiased, specialised therapy exterior Adiala jail.
“Medical care offered throughout the jail system is not any substitute for an intensive analysis by unbiased specialists of his selecting,” he stated, including that PTI had constantly known as for Khan’s switch to Shifa Worldwide and entry to his personal docs.
Authorities officers have insisted any switch required judicial authorisation moderately than government discretion.
Rana Sanaullah, adviser to the prime minister, advised the Senate on Monday that Khan was receiving “the very best obtainable medical therapy” and that his situation didn’t assist PTI’s considerations.
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 interact in dialogue however to no avail as but, whereas PTI management has introduced a national protest on September 27.
