Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has reportedly been denied medical care in prison accordance with his sister who says family and doctors have not been allowed to assess his condition.
Medical Care In Prison Denied
Khan has been in prison since August 2023 when he was convicted in a case for profiting from the sale of state gifts. His sister Naureen Niazi told RT that neither family members nor doctors have been permitted to meet him recently.
She said they do not know his real condition because their doctors are not allowed to examine him and they cannot trust what officials say, noting that family or their doctors have not met Khan in the last three months.
Eye Condition And Treatment Delays
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered a medical team to examine Khan and has allowed phone contact with his sons following a court appointed lawyer’s report. The case has drawn attention to his health and the handling of medical access within prison facilities.
Lawyer Salman Safdar wrote in the report that Khan has been left with only fifteen per cent vision in his right eye after authorities allegedly ignored his complaints for months, and that no action was taken by the jail authorities to address these concerns. For the last three months he has been telling the superintendent in jail that his eyes are hurting, a statement reflected in the interview with Niazi.
Court Interventions And Legal Proceedings
Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were also convicted in a US$232 million land corruption case in January 2025 and sentenced to a fourteen year prison term, adding to a series of legal actions that have defined his public life since leaving office.
In the 2023 case he was found guilty of illegally buying and selling state gifts, although the sentence was later suspended, and in 2024 he was also sentenced to ten years for leaking state secrets, a charge he has denied. These prosecutions have continued to provoke political reactions and heightened tension in the country.
Public Reactions And Political Context
Khan has denied the charges, describing them as politically motivated and arguing that his removal from office resulted from a United States conspiracy. The former cricket star served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022 and maintains that his government was toppled in April 2022 by the first no confidence vote in the country’s history, reportedly at the request of the US because he was too friendly to Russia.
I am not concerned about who the Prime Minister of Pakistan is today, because no PM truly has authority over the military. What concerns me is Imran Khan’s health, because to me he is not only a former Prime Minister but also a voice of conscience for humanity and the Ummah. pic.twitter.com/WLZNo3iQY0
— Turgay Evren (@TurgayEvren1) February 14, 2026
His arrests and sentences have sparked nationwide protests, some of which turned violent, underscoring the deep divisions surrounding his leadership and the ongoing disputes with the current administration. The broader political narrative continues to unfold as legal cases proceed and public opinion remains highly polarised.
