Overview
- The Islamabad High Court division bench heard the couple’s appeals on Thursday and took up defence requests to summon the Punjab prisons chief and hospital officials with medical records.
- Lawyer Salman Safdar told the court Imran Khan’s vision had fallen to 15% and said both detainees were kept in prolonged solitary confinement.
- Safdar asked the court to suspend the sentences on humanitarian grounds and argued needed eye treatment could not be provided inside Adiala Jail.
- Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar said the court could decide the appeals quickly once arguments begin and urged counsel to proceed to the main case.
- Separately, the Federal Investigation Agency filed a charge sheet in the prohibited funding case with the Special Court registrar in Islamabad for scrutiny before a hearing is set.