Former chief was escorted from Adiala jail to Shifa Worldwide Hospital, following court docket order, native media experiences.
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Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has been transferred from jail to hospital by police and safety, based on native media experiences.
The founding father of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) occasion was escorted by authorities in Islamabad from Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail to Shifa Worldwide Hospital within the capital late on Thursday, following the Supreme Courtroom’s order, Pakistan’s Geo Information reported.
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Sources informed Geo that authorities had earlier within the day accomplished preparations to shift the ousted prime minister, who’s 73, to the hospital.
The Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday ordered the shift to be accomplished inside two days.
The federal government had filed a petition in opposition to the choice.
PTI shared a reside broadcast of the preparations for his switch however has not but launched a press release about it. The Pakistani authorities can also be but to remark.
The switch fulfils a requirement that Khan’s occasion and household had been making for months, expressing concerns over his health.
Below the order, Khan is to be examined by a medical board that features his private doctor.
Khan’s subsequent listening to has been scheduled for September 16, and the previous chief ought to stay hospitalised till no less than then as per the order, based on one among Khan’s legal professionals, Uzair Bhandari.
This might be the longest interval Khan could be bodily exterior jail premises since he was imprisoned in August 2023 and convicted in a number of corruption-related instances that he and his occasion insist are politically motivated.
The previous cricket-star-turned-politician was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote in April 2022.
