A Pakistan excessive courtroom on Tuesday directed authorities at Rawalpindi Jail to make sure that former prime minister Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi aren’t held in solitary confinement. The ruling additionally set out provisions for Khan’s household conferences, cellphone calls, studying materials and medical care.The Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC), whereas listening to petitions difficult the couple’s alleged solitary confinement, directed the jail authorities to permit Khan’s relations to satisfy him in keeping with jail guidelines and organize phone conversations together with his sons.Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro additionally ordered the jail to supply Khan with newspapers and books day by day and guarantee entry to medical services as prescribed below jail guidelines. Rawalpindi’s Aiala jail superintendent has been requested to implement the instructions and submit a compliance report inside 15 days, in line with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).The courtroom had earlier reserved its verdict on August 6 on separate petitions filed by Khan’s sister Aleema Khanum and Bushra Bibi’s daughter Mubashra Khawar Maneka. The IHC additionally held the petitions difficult the alleged solitary confinement to be maintainable.The 73-year-old cricketer-turned-politician and his spouse have been in custody since August 2023 and is serving jail phrases in corruption and associated instances. Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf occasion and supporters have maintained that the instances are politically motivated, whereas the federal government has rejected allegations of mistreatment.Bushra Bibi was first jailed in January 2024 after being convicted in a corruption-related case. She was launched on bail in October that 12 months after almost 9 months in custody however was arrested once more in January 2025 following one other corruption conviction. She stays at Adiala Jail.The IHC order comes as Khan’s detention and medical remedy stay the topic of separate proceedings earlier than the Supreme Court docket.On Monday, the Supreme Court docket declined an software by Khan’s sister Uzma Khan searching for an early listening to of her contempt petition towards authorities officers over the alleged failure to adjust to an earlier order regarding his switch to a personal hospital, Daybreak reported.Pakistan’s Supreme Court docket had on August 18 ordered that Khan be shifted to the privately run Shifa Worldwide Hospital after issues have been raised by his household and supporters over his well being, together with an eye fixed situation recognized earlier this 12 months.As an alternative, Khan was taken to the state-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on the night time of August 20-21 for a medical process and diagnostic examinations and was later returned to Adiala Jail.Uzma Khan’s petition contends that this breached the Supreme Court docket’s route that Khan stay admitted on the Islamabad hospital till the subsequent listening to on September 16. The federal government has defended the choice, citing safety issues.Two specialists from Shifa Worldwide Hospital additionally participated in Khan’s eye examination at PIMS, in line with the hospital administration, as reported by Daybreak.Uzma Khan had sought an earlier listening to, arguing that additional delay might have an effect on the enforcement of the Supreme Court docket’s order. The Supreme Court docket, nevertheless, rejected the request below its case-fixation coverage, noting that 94 different legal authentic petitions in the identical class have been pending, Daybreak reported.The contempt petition is listed for September 16 earlier than a three-member bench comprising Justices Shahid Waheed, Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Ishtiaq Ibrahim. The bench can also be scheduled to listen to different issues regarding Khan’s well being and household conferences.
