Former Premier Imran Khan. File
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court docket on Thursday (February 12, 2026) ordered authorities to arrange a medical board to look at jailed former Premier Imran Khan’s eyes following a report about imaginative and prescient loss in one among them.
The Supreme Court docket additionally ordered authorities to permit the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder to talk along with his kids.
Khan has been in jail since August 5, 2023, when he was arrested at his Lahore residence after his conviction in a corruption case. Presently, he’s incarcerated on the high-security Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
A two-member Bench comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan resumed listening to a case in regards to the residing circumstances of the 73-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician and ordered an in depth check-up earlier than February 16.
Final month, Khan was rushed to a hospital in Islamabad, the place a medical process for a watch ailment was carried out. Nonetheless, his celebration has been elevating considerations about his well being. “The problem of Imran’s well being is most essential,” Justice Afridi mentioned in the course of the listening to, including that “intervention was obligatory”.
The Court docket additionally ordered that Khan needs to be allowed to carry a telephone name along with his kids.
Justice Afridi famous that the problem of Khan’s “phone calls along with his kids can be essential”.
In the course of the listening to, Legal professional Normal for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan affirmed that it was the state’s accountability to supply medical amenities.
The order got here after the Supreme Court docket on Tuesday (February 10) tasked PTI lawyer Salman Safdar to fulfill Khan in Adiala Jail and submit a report on the previous Prime Minister’s residing circumstances.
The lawyer submitted the report after the go to.
It was the primary assembly with Khan by anybody since December 2, when his sister Uzma Khan was allowed to fulfill him for 20 minutes.
In the meantime, the Daybreak newspaper, citing the report submitted by the lawyer, reported that it detailed Mr. Safdar’s assembly with Khan, the cell circumstances, the amenities and facilities supplied to the ex-Premier, an outline of his residing compound and the lawyer’s technique of reaching the jail.
In his report, Mr. Safdar quoted Khan as telling him that “regardless of the remedy administered (together with an injection), he has been left with solely 15% imaginative and prescient in his proper eye”. Khan instructed Mr. Safdar that roughly “three to 4 months earlier, till October 2025, he had regular 6 x 6 imaginative and prescient in each eyes”.
He then started experiencing persistent blurred and hazy imaginative and prescient, which he repeatedly reported to the then-jail superintendent, however “no motion was taken by the jail authorities”.
The report learn: “[Khan] said that he subsequently suffered a sudden and full lack of imaginative and prescient in his proper eye, following which an ophthalmologist from Pims Hospital, Dr. Muhammad Arif, was referred to as to look at him.
“In line with [Khan], he was recognized with a blood clot that induced extreme harm, and regardless of the remedy administered [including an injection], he has been left with solely 15% imaginative and prescient in his proper eye.” A day in the past, Mr. Safdar additionally denied making any assertion on Khan’s well being on Tuesday (February 10), making it clear that if something was attributed to him on this regard, it was “misrepresented and misreported”.
On Tuesday (February 10), the day he met Khan, Mr. Safdar had instructed reporters that the incarcerated chief was “high quality and wholesome”.
Revealed – February 12, 2026 03:55 pm IST