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The Independent UK
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Munir Ahmed

Pakistan’s top court orders imprisoned former PM Imran Khan taken to hospital, allows family visits

Pakistan Imran Khan - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered authorities to take imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to a private hospital in the capital for a medical examination, following months of concerns from his family and personal physicians about his health and access to medical care, his lawyers and party officials said.

A three-judge panel ordered that Khan be taken to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad in the coming days and examined by a medical board that will include specialists and one of his personal physicians, Faisal Sultan.

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