PTI accuses Pakistan government of defying ex-PM Imran Khan hospital order

Islamabad, Pakistan — Uzma Khanum had not seen her brother in nearly a year. When she finally did, in a borrowed office in the government-run PIMS hospital in the Pakistani capital past midnight on Friday, he stood up in shock and told the doctors around him, “This is my sister, I’m meeting her after 10 months.”The country’s Supreme Court had on Tuesday ordered Pakistani authorities to transfer former Prime Minister Imran Khan to the privately run Shifa International Hospital by midnight on Thursday, from Adiala jail, three years after he was imprisoned on a slew of charges.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Pakistan’s Imran Khan back to prison after evaluation at hospitallist 2 of 4Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan back in jail after brief hospital visitlist 3 of 4Pakistan challenges top court order to move Imran Khan to private hospitallist 4 of 4Pakistan top court orders Imran Khan’s hospital transfer amid access battleend of listBut by the time Khanum and Imran Khan’s personal physician, Faisal Sultan, described the night at a news conference on Friday afternoon, it had become, in their account, a story of confusion — marked by what they said was a “failure” by the governm...