After the former Pakistan PM arrived at the hospital, Islamabad Inspector General of Police Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi visited the facility to review security arrangements. Rizvi had also visited the hospital on Thursday night to prepare for Imran’s arrival.

The transfer came after Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday directed authorities to move Khan to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad within 48 hours. The court also ordered that he should be examined by a medical panel that includes his personal physician. It also ordered the jail authorities to ensure his weekly meetings with his family members.

Concerns over Imran Khan’s health started in late January after his family claimed he had lost around 85% of the vision in his right eye, a claim disputed by the government. Authorities later said his eyesight had improved by about 70% and that his overall condition was recovering.

According to the Dawn reports, more than 800 personnel from different law enforcement agencies have been deployed in the area as part of heightened security arrangements.

The chief commissioner will designate the concerned room, ward or floor as a sub-jail through a formal notification. Prison staff from Adiala Jail will also be stationed at the hospital to maintain security during his stay.

Cases against Imran Khan

According to the former prime minister, over 100 cases have been launched against him. Prosecutors allege that Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, received land worth up to 7 billion rupees through the Al-Qadir Trust, which they established in 2018. The land was allegedly provided by a property developer facing money-laundering proceedings in Britain in return for facilitating the repatriation of 190 million pounds recovered by British authorities in the case.

He was also convicted in 2024 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for publicly disclosing a diplomatic cable sent by Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington in 2022, though the conviction was later overturned. He has maintained that the cable supported his allegation that Pakistan’s military and the US conspired to remove his government after his visit to Moscow shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine.

A trial court in February 2024 sentenced Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to seven years in prison after finding that their 2018 marriage violated Islamic law. The case centred on the mandatory iddat waiting period that follows a woman’s divorce, with the couple having held their nikkah in a private ceremony in January 2018. A court later overturned the conviction and acquitted the couple in July 2024.

Khan was initially sentenced to three years in prison in 2023 for selling state gifts worth more than 140 million rupees that he received while in office from 2018 to 2022. The sentence was later suspended. In January 2024, an anti-graft court handed Khan and his wife a 14-year sentence in the same case, which remains suspended as they appeal the conviction. Government officials have alleged that Khan’s aides sold some of the gifts in Dubai. To which he denied the allegations and called the case politically motivated. He was convicted and sentenced in 2025.

On the September protest

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Shafi Jan said that the PTI’s plan to hold a long march towards Islamabad on September 27 remained unchanged, while confirming that the party is still willing to pursue negotiations and political dialogue. He said the PTI would not reconsider the protest unless there was “tangible and credible progress” on its key demands. He added that nothing is more important than its founder’s health.

Jan said the planned September protest was not focusing on the confrontation, but at seeking the PTI’s constitutional, legal and political rights. He said the party had not formally called for any protest movement since November 26, but restrictions on its political activities had continued to tighten rather than ease.