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Islamabad, Pakistan \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the transfer of Imran Khan, former prime minister and founder of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, from Rawalpindi\u2019s Adiala prison to Islamabad\u2019s Shifa International Hospital within two days, accepting a demand his party had been making for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uzair Bhandari, one of Khan\u2019s lawyers, told Al Jazeera the three-member bench also ordered a medical board be formed to oversee Khan\u2019s treatment, including the ex-prime minister\u2019s sister, Dr Uzma Khan, and his personal physician, Dr Faisal Sultan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe court also directed that Khan\u2019s family be allowed to meet him at the hospital and that he be permitted to speak with his sons, who live abroad,\u201d Bhandari said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next hearing has been fixed for September 16, and Khan should remain hospitalised until at least then as per the order, according to the lawyer. This will be the longest period that Khan will be physically outside jail premises since he was imprisoned in August 2023, convicted in several corruption-related cases that he and his party insist are politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order followed a report Adiala jail\u2019s superintendent submitted to the court on Monday, detailing a cardiac board\u2019s August 10 review of Khan, 73, which recorded fluctuating blood pressure and anxiety linked to restricted contact with his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During Tuesday\u2019s hearing, the court pressed Pakistan\u2019s advocate general over gaps in the report, saying Khan\u2019s \u201cpulse and heart condition were not normal\u201d and that his vital organs \u201chad started being affected\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Al Jazeera: Islamabad, Pakistan \u2014\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the transfer of Imran Khan, former prime minister and founder of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, from Rawalpindi\u2019s Adiala prison to Islamabad\u2019s Shifa International Hospital within two days, accepting a demand his party had been making for months. Uzair Bhandari, one of Khan\u2019s lawyers, told Al Jazeera the three-member bench also ordered a medical board be formed to oversee Khan\u2019s treatment, including the ex-prime minister\u2019s sister, Dr Uzma Khan, and his personal physician, Dr Faisal Sultan. \u201cThe court also directed that Khan\u2019s family be allowed to meet him at… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60580,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60578\/revisions\/60580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}