The sister of jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has petitioned the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom for a medical examination for his spouse Bushra Bibi, who’s imprisoned within the embattled politician's personal residence right here.
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) get together has alleged in a publish on
The get together mentioned Monday that Bushra, 49, “can’t eat and is unwell,” including that authorities “denied medical remedy.”
“This was a malafide assault on Imran Khan's spouse by the authoritarian, fascist and illegitimate regime, in a futile try to strain Khan into submission,” the get together mentioned.
Khan's sister Uzma Khan requested the court docket to permit gastroenterologist Dr Asim Yousaf, medical director of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital, to conduct the medical examination of Khan's spouse within the presence of the jail physician. The hospital is run by a charity based by Imran Khan.
The get together additionally shared photographs of the petition filed within the court docket which learn: “It’s additional prayed that in that case suggested by Dr Asim Yousaf, senior docs conduct the medical examination of Bushra Bibi at PIMS within the presence of Dr Asim Yousaf. .”
Final week, PTI expressed concern about Bushra Bibi's well being and mentioned there was a “severe risk” to her life.
Bushra Bibi is jailed after an accountability court docket sentenced the couple to 14 years in jail within the Toshakhana corruption case final month.
Khan, 71, is lodged within the high-security Adiala jail in Rawalpindi. Each have been sentenced to a number of years' sentences within the Toshakhana costly presents case and within the Iddat case that declared their marriage in 2018 as un-Islamic.
Bushra had already filed a petition earlier than the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom on February 6 towards the authorities' resolution to declare his residence as a sub-jail and sought his switch to Adiala Jail citing “attainable safety points”.
Within the February eight basic election, 92 impartial candidates, backed by Khan's get together, emerged victorious within the Nationwide Meeting.
On Monday, the PTI introduced it might be part of the right-wing Sunni Ittehad Council, an alliance of Islamic political and spiritual events within the Muslim-majority nation that represents followers of the Sunni faculty of Islam.
The get together had earlier determined that its members elected to the Nationwide Meeting and the Punjab provincial meeting would be part of the Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM), a Shia get together. These elected in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) would change into a part of Jamaati-e-Islami (JI), which is a hardline Sunni spiritual get together.
Khan's get together, which couldn’t straight take part within the elections resulting from not being allotted the electoral image, the cricket bat, needs to order its share of seats for girls and minorities utilizing the platform of different like-minded events.