The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday ordered former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be moved to Islamabad’s Shifa International Hospital for a medical checkup.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court issued the order on Imran Khan’s petition for his hospitalisation and also ordered the jail authorities to ensure his weekly meetings with his family members. Khan has been in Adiala Jail since 2023, facing multiple criminal convictions and pending charges, including corruption in the Al-Qadir Trust and state gift cases, leaking official state secrets, and unlawful marriage
The court further directed the formation of a medical board, with which Imran Khan’s personal physician and his sister, Dr Uzma Khan, will be associated.
He was earlier taken to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad on multiple occasions for treatment of his eye condition — right central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) — first reported in late January.
Adiala Jail officials had reported that the 73-year-old founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Sharif’s health was improving. They said Khan’s eye had shown clear improvement, and his sight had returned to nearly normal.
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Pakistan · Imran Khan · Factbox
The cases against Imran Khan
The former Pakistan prime minister says over 100 cases have been launched against him. Here are five of the most significant.
Land bribery · Al-Qadir Trust
Land bribery case
Convicted · 14 yrs
Prosecutors say Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, received land as a bribe through the Al-Qadir Trust — a charitable trust the couple set up in 2018 while Khan was still in office.
He and his wife are accused of receiving land worth up to 7 billion rupees ($25 million) from a property developer facing money-laundering charges in Britain, in exchange for a favour: helping return 190 million pounds repatriated to Pakistan by Britain in that money-laundering probe.
His response
Khan denies the allegations and has called the case politically motivated. He was convicted and sentenced in 2025.
State secrets · the cipher case
State secrets case
Overturned
Khan was convicted in 2024 of making public a classified cable sent to Islamabad by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington in 2022, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The conviction was later overturned.
Khan has said the cable was proof of a conspiracy by the military and the U.S. government to topple his government in 2022, after he visited Moscow just before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
His response
He denies the charge, saying the cable's contents appeared in the media from other sources. Washington and Pakistan's military reject his conspiracy claim.
Gifts case · Toshakhana
Gifts (Toshakhana) case
Suspended · appeal
Khan was sentenced to three years in 2023 for selling state-owned gifts worth over 140 million rupees (~$505,000) received during his 2018–2022 premiership; that sentence was later suspended. In January 2024, an anti-graft court sentenced Khan and his wife to 14 years in the same case — a sentence that is currently suspended pending appeal.
Government officials have alleged Khan's aides sold the gifts in Dubai.
Gifts on the list (per a former information minister)
Perfumes, diamond jewellery, dinner sets
Seven watchessix Rolexes
Costliest piece: a Master Graff limited edition~$306,000
His response
He denies wrongdoing, saying he legally purchased the items.
Unlawful marriage · Iddat case
Unlawful marriage case
Acquitted
A trial court sentenced Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to seven years in February 2024, ruling that their 2018 marriage broke Islamic injunctions. They were charged with not completing "Iddat" — the waiting period mandated by Islam after Bibi divorced her previous husband; the couple had signed their marriage contract, or "Nikkah," in a secret ceremony in January 2018.
In July 2024, a court acquitted them of the charges.
Abetting violence
Abetting violence case
Trial ongoing
Khan is facing trial under anti-terrorism charges over violence against military and other state installations that erupted after his brief arrest in May 2023.
100+
Cases Khan says have been filed against him since his ouster as prime minister in 2022 — these five are among the most significant.
Case outcomes and appeals are current as of publication and may change; several remain before the courts.
Sources: Pakistani court filings and records; official statements from Khan, the Pakistani government and military, and the U.S. government.
Cricketer-turned-politician Khan has been in jail in the garrison town of Rawalpindi since August 2023, convicted in a string of cases that he says were politically driven following his ouster in 2022. His sons repeatedly expressed concern regarding his deteriorating health last year, with his lawyers saying he had lost significant vision in his right eye while in prison.
“Mindful of the fundamental right, we are issuing this order to ensure the health and safety of the prisoner,” said Justice Shahid Waheed, head of the three-judge bench that heard the petition.
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The court directed that Khan be moved to Shifa International Hospital in the capital, Islamabad, within 48 hours and remain there until September 16, Khan’s spokesperson Naeem Haider Panjutha said on X.
The court also ordered the creation of a medical panel for his treatment, including a cardiologist, general medicine specialist, eye specialist and Khan’s personal physician.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party welcomed the order, saying it should be implemented “immediately, fully, and without delay”.
“We wish it had happened sooner so his eye and general health would not have deteriorated this much,” PTI spokesperson Zulfikar Bukhari said.
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The party also appealed to its members and Khan’s supporters not to gather outside the hospital, in accordance with the court’s order.
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