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ISLAMABAD:
The capital’s high court on Tuesday removed the office’s objections to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s plea for immediate transfer to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital for his eye treatment and issued notices to the respondents.
The court will consider the plea on 10 March.
A division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), comprising Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir and Justice Khadim Hussin Soomro, heard the various criminal application filed by Imran’s lawyer Latif Khosa as part of the PTI founder and his wife’s main appeal against their conviction in the Toshakhana gift hoarding case.
During the case, the court asked why it should not also hear the main appeal.
Latif Khosa said the PTI founder’s health is also an issue so the application for his transfer to a hospital should also be processed urgently. He requested the court to take up the plea as early as tomorrow and also issue an order allowing his meeting with the PTI founder.
Imran’s vision ‘improved’
PIMS said on Tuesday that Imran has shown significant improvement in his vision after his second dose of intravitreal anti-VEGF injection.
“The results are encouraging. His vision has improved remarkably and is at a substantially good level at this stage,” read a statement issued by PIMS.
A statement issued on Tuesday by PIMS further said that Imran’s examination was conducted at Adiala Jail by Dr. Nadeem Qureshi, head of the Vitreoretinal Department at Rawalpindi’s Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, and Professor Dr. Arif Khan, head of PIMS’ Ophthalmology Department.
PTI immediately rejected the statement, claiming that “any medical examination conducted without the presence of his personal doctors and immediate family lacks transparency and credibility.”
Bail before arrest
A district and sessions court in Islamabad granted pre-arrest bail to the PTI founder in six cases and to his wife, Bushra Bibi, in one case.
