Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan back in jail after hospital trip
- Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was transferred from prison to a private hospital in Islamabad overnight for court-ordered medical examinations before being returned to jail.
- The 73-year-old was examined by a medical panel that included his personal physician following a Supreme Court directive issued earlier in the week.
- The court order followed months of mounting concern from Khan’s family and party regarding his health, including a significant loss of vision in his right eye.
- The government attempted to ask the top court to review or withdraw the directive, but the request was declined on technical grounds.
- Khan has been imprisoned since August 2023 on multiple convictions that he maintains are politically motivated following his removal from office in 2022.
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