Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. File.
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A Excessive Courtroom in Pakistan on Thursday (March 12, 2026) rejected a petition to shift jailed former premier Imran Khan to a personal medical hospital and ordered the structure of a workforce of medical doctors to medically look at him.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on March 2 filed the petition in Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) by means of lawyer Latif Khosa to switch Khan from Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, to Shifa Worldwide Hospital in Islamabad for remedy of his eyes.
Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir and Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro heard the case. Khosa offered his arguments whereas Islamabad Advocate Normal Ayaz Shaukat and Extra Legal professional Normal Rashid Hafeez appeared on behalf of the federal government.
Khosa informed the courtroom that Khan had been complaining of deteriorating imaginative and prescient in his proper eye. Although he was handled on the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), his household and authorized workforce weren’t knowledgeable about his medical course of.
After listening to arguments, the courtroom refused to grant the petition to shift Khan to a personal hospital. It, nonetheless, directed Islamabad Chief Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa to represent a medical board to verify Khan.
It ordered that Dr Muhammad Arif, who’s the top of the ophthalmology division at PIMS and Dr Nadeem Qureshi, who’s a retina specialist from Al-Shifa Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, be on the board.
Khan is believed to be affected by an ailment in the proper eye since October final yr and is underneath remedy. In response to the federal government, the situation of his eye in addition to his imaginative and prescient has improved following medical interventions. Khan, 72, has been jailed since August 2023 and is serving a sentence at Adiala Jail within the Al Qadir Belief corruption case. He additionally faces pending trials underneath the Anti-Terrorism Act linked to the protest by his celebration on Could 9, 2023.
Revealed – March 13, 2026 02:30 am IST