The former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan said his wife, Bushra Bibi, was being fed food laced with “toilet cleaner” by Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail authorities, according to a report by Pakistan-based The Express Tribune.
The claims were made during the hearing of the $235 million corruption case in front of justice Nasir Javed Rana. He said due to ingesting the toilet cleaner, the former first lady has faced health issues.
Bushra Bibi is currently jailed at Bani Gala — 71-year-old Khan’s home in Islamabad — which was turned into a sub-jail since she was sentenced in the ‘un-Islamic nikah’ case in February.
Imran Khan said that Shaukat Khanum Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr Asim Yousaf had suggested carrying out Bushra Bibi’s tests at Shifa International Hospital but authorities prevented him from doing so.
He claimed that authorities pushed for carrying out the test at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital.
Bushra Bibi, on Monday moved the Islamabad High Court seeking a medical examination at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital, which is owned by Khan’s charitable organisation.
Earlier this month, during the hearing of a corruption case in the Adiala jail, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: party founder Khan informed the judge that there had been an attempt to poison his wife and said that she had marks on her skin and tongue as a side effect of the “poisoning”.
However, Bushra Bibi’s personal physician conducted a medical checkup and ascertained that she had not been given any poisonous substance.
Meanwhile, a Pakistan court this week disposed of a petition filed by Bushra Bibi seeking her transfer to the high-security Adiala jail, where her husband is incarcerated.
Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb disposed of the petition after Bushra Bibi’s lawyers failed to appear before the court Questioning why Bushra Bibi’s counsels were absent.
“If they had won this case, Bushra Bibi would have gone to [Adiala] jail, but they (lawyers) themselves do not want Bushra Bibi to go to jail,” the judge said.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Khan has been lodged in the Adiala Jail since August 2023. Earlier in January, Khan and Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 14 years in jail in the Toshakhana reference case about the illegal sale of state gifts, which the former premier received during his term.
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