ISLAMABAD: Dr. Uzma Khan, the sister of incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan, filed a contempt plea in the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday against government functionaries, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, accusing them of violating the court’s earlier directives to arrange the PTI founder’s meetings with his family and phone calls with his sons.
The interim order was issued on August 18, when the SC had directed the relevant authorities to move Imran to Shifa International Hospital for a medical check-up, as well as facilitate meetings between Imran and his family members once a week and phone calls with his sons twice a week.
Uzma filed a second contempt plea in connection with the order on Wednesday, earlier having approached the court on August 22 for contempt proceedings against those responsible for taking Imran to the government-run Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) instead of Shifa International Hospital.
Filed through Advocate Uzair Karamat Bhandari, the plea requested the court to treat the contents of the first petition as an integral part of the second one.
As in the first petition, Islamabad Chief Commissioner (retired) Lieutenant Sohail Ashraf, Interior Secretary Ahmed Raza Sarwar, Punjab Inspector General Prisons Mian Salik Jalal, Adiala Jail Superintendent Sajid Baig and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have been named as respondents in the second plea as well.
