Pakistan Supreme Court allows lawyer to meet Imran Khan in jail

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a lawyer of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to meet incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan in prison and submit a report about his “living conditions”.

Khan, 73, has been in jail since August 5, 2023, when he was arrested at his Lahore residence after his conviction in a corruption case. Currently, he has been kept at Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.

A two-member panel of the apex court, comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and



Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan, hearing a petition to meet Khan, appointed PTI counsel Salman Safdar as amicus curiae with the orders to visit the jail.

The court stated that it “considered appropriate that a report regarding the present ‘living conditions of the petitioner in jail’ be submitted”.

Subsequently, the court appointed Safdar as amicus curiae. “Salman Safdar should go to Adiala as a friend of the court,” Afridi said, adding that the court has full faith in him.