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Pakistan’s Supreme Court connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) ordered authorities to acceptable up a aesculapian committee to analyse jailed erstwhile Premier Imran Khan’s eyes pursuing a study astir imaginativeness nonaccomplishment successful 1 of them.
The Supreme Court besides ordered authorities to let the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) laminitis to talk with his children.
Khan has been successful jailhouse since August 5, 2023, erstwhile helium was arrested astatine his Lahore residence aft his condemnation successful a corruption case. Currently, helium is incarcerated astatine the high-security Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
A two-member Bench comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan resumed proceeding a lawsuit astir the surviving conditions of the 73-year-old erstwhile cricketer-turned-politician and ordered a elaborate check-up earlier February 16.
Last month, Khan was rushed to a infirmary successful Islamabad, wherever a aesculapian process for an oculus ailment was performed. However, his enactment has been raising concerns astir his health. “The contented of Imran’s wellness is astir important,” Justice Afridi said during the hearing, adding that “intervention was necessary”.
The Court besides ordered that Khan should beryllium allowed to clasp a telephone telephone with his children.
Justice Afridi noted that the contented of Khan’s “telephone calls with his children is besides important”.
During the hearing, Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan affirmed that it was the state’s work to supply aesculapian facilities.
The bid came aft the Supreme Court connected Tuesday (February 10) tasked PTI lawyer Salman Safdar to conscionable Khan successful Adiala Jail and taxable a study connected the erstwhile Prime Minister’s surviving conditions.
The lawyer submitted the study aft the visit.
It was the first gathering with Khan by anyone since December 2, erstwhile his sister Uzma Khan was allowed to conscionable him for 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, the Dawn newspaper, citing the study submitted by the lawyer, reported that it elaborate Mr. Safdar’s gathering with Khan, the compartment conditions, the facilities and amenities provided to the ex-Premier, a statement of his surviving compound and the lawyer’s process of reaching the jail.
In his report, Mr. Safdar quoted Khan arsenic telling him that “despite the attraction administered (including an injection), helium has been near with lone 15% imaginativeness successful his close eye”. Khan told Mr. Safdar that astir “three to 4 months earlier, until October 2025, helium had mean 6 x 6 imaginativeness successful some eyes”.
He past began experiencing persistent blurred and hazy vision, which helium repeatedly reported to the then-jail superintendent, but “no enactment was taken by the jailhouse authorities”.
The study read: “[Khan] stated that helium subsequently suffered a abrupt and implicit nonaccomplishment of imaginativeness successful his close eye, pursuing which an ophthalmologist from Pims Hospital, Dr. Muhammad Arif, was called to analyse him.
“According to [Khan], helium was diagnosed with a humor clot that caused terrible damage, and contempt the attraction administered [including an injection], helium has been near with lone 15% imaginativeness successful his close eye.” A time ago, Mr. Safdar besides denied making immoderate connection connected Khan’s wellness connected Tuesday (February 10), making it wide that if thing was attributed to him successful this regard, it was “misrepresented and misreported”.
On Tuesday (February 10), the time helium met Khan, Mr. Safdar had told reporters that the incarcerated person was “fine and healthy”.
