Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan back in jail after medical treatment, sources say

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan was taken to hospital in Islamabad late on ​Tuesday for medical treatment and returned to prison, sources said.

Khan, who is ‌imprisoned in Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, had an eye check-up at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), one of the officials said ​on Wednesday.

"He had some blood pressure issues ... and was ​given required treatment last night. He has been ⁠shifted back to his prison cell," the person said.

The ​cricketer-turned-politician has faced multiple corruption charges since he lost power in a ​no-confidence vote in 2022, and has been in prison for more than three years. All of Khan's convictions bar one have been suspended ​or overturned, with appeals pending. He denies wrongdoing and ​says the charges are politically motivated, a claim the government denies.

Khan's lawyers ‌say ⁠the 74-year-old's health has deteriorated in prison and that he has lost significant vision in his right eye.

It is the first known instance of Khan being taken to hospital for ​treatment and returned ​to jail ⁠since August, when his hospital visit was cut short.

A Pakistani court has also ordered jail ​authorities to allow Khan's legal team to see ​him ⁠and his wife, his party said.

His party's deputy chairman, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, was also taken to hospital in the eastern ⁠city ​of Lahore from a jail in ​the same city on Tuesday. He remains in hospital.