RAWALPINDI (The Thursday Times) — Imran Khan’s blood pressure has been fluctuating to a “terrifying extent”, his lawyer Latif Khosa said on Wednesday after a meeting of about four hours with the jailed former prime minister at Adiala jail, a day after the Islamabad High Court ordered the authorities to let his legal team see him.
Khosa and Barrister Salman Safdar met the PTI founder at the jail in Rawalpindi. “As per orders of the court, the meeting was held to discuss under-trial cases,” said Awais Younus Chaudhry, another PTI lawyer. He said the two left without speaking to reporters or to party lawyers waiting outside.
In a video later posted by the PTI, Khosa said the talks had focused on Khan’s health and the cases against him. He said Khan had a “blood pressure problem”, but was “completely active and his will was very strong”. Details of his health, and of what Khosa had seen for himself, would be released later, he said.
Asked whether Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, had also been present, Khosa said yes. He confirmed that a possible 28th constitutional amendment had come up, but would not say more. Asked why the meeting had run so long, he laughed. “Ask those who allowed the meeting,” he said.
What the court ordered
On Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court, hearing the appeals of Khan and Bushra Bibi against their convictions in the £190 million reference, directed the authorities to facilitate meetings between Khan and his lawyers. Khosa said the court had ordered that the meeting should last no less than an hour.
The court has already allowed Khan meetings twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with his family, lawyers, and associates. Despite repeated court directions, his meetings with family members and party leaders have been largely restricted. Safdar met him on November 2, for less than an hour, after a gap of seven months.
Hours after a hospital visit
The meeting came hours after Khan was taken from Adiala to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad overnight for a check-up and his sixth injection for an eye condition. The hospital said his vital signs were normal, that he was “clinically stable”, and that his general physical examination was normal.
Khan has been in prison since August 5, 2023. Bushra Bibi was arrested on January 17, 2025, in a separate case in which the couple were sentenced.
