Pakistan’s PTI demands access to jailed Khan after overnight hospital visit

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan ⁠is taken ⁠to a government hospital in Islamabad for eye treatment and returned to prison. Islamabad, Pakistan – The party of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has demanded access to its leader after he was taken to a hospital overnight for treatment and sent back to prison. Khan, 74, briefly left the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for an eye examination at Islamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the government hospital said on Wednesday.

Khan has received a series of intravitreal injections in his right eye to treat central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), a condition diagnosed after he reported reduced vision . He received his first injection in January. “His vital parameters were found to be normal.

He was clinically stable, and his general physical examination was normal,” the hospital said, adding that he was discharged about 2:30am (21:30 GMT on Tuesday) with instructions for further care and follow-up.