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Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad

Jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan allowed brief hospital visit after uproar over health

Police officers on guard on Thursday at a barricaded road near the Shifa international hospital
Police officers on guard on Thursday at a barricaded road near the Shifa international hospital where Imran Khan was transferred. Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP


Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan was briefly taken to a hospital in the country’s capital on supreme court orders after weeks of uproar about his deteriorating health.

Khan, 73, was transferred to the hospital in the early hours of Friday, but then moved back to Adiala prison in Rawalpindi after a ⁠few hours, a spokesperson for his party said on Friday.

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