PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution, urging the federal government to implement the Supreme Court’s orders to shift incarcerated PTI founder and former prime minister Imran Khan to the Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad for examination and treatment by a multidisciplinary medical board as well as facilitate regular family meetings.
The resolution, moved by treasury MPA Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani during a sitting chaired by Speaker Babar Saleem Swati here, said that the house was concerned about Mr Imran’s bad health, so he should be provided with the due medical treatment in presence of his personal physician.
“The house demands of the federal government to implement court orders, take all required steps and provide the best medical services to the former prime minister,” it read, condemning the denial of Mr Imran’s treatment at the Shifa Hospital.
Earlier, ruling PTI member Abdul Salam Afridi said the apex court had ordered the shifting of his leader Imran Khan to the Shifa Hospital but the order wasn’t followed by the federal government.
Demands Imran‘s Shifa hospital transfer, meeting with family
He requested the court to initiate contempt proceedings against the federal government.
Treasury MPA Fazal Ilahi said that even traitors were not treated the way the incarcerated former prime minister was being handled.
He said he knew the court’s orders on Imran’s Shifa transfer would never be implemented.
During the sitting, Ahmad Karim Kundi of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party questioned why a large number of bureaucrats had been recommended by the federal government for civil awards on this Independence Day but those who had been fighting against a “well-equipped enemy“ were missed out.
He said that medals were conferred upon people from 21 categories and even federal ministers were recommended for them, raising questions about the selection criteria.
The lawmaker said that unfortunately, no one from the injured cops, relatives of the martyred personnel and officials of the bomb disposal unit was selected for civil awards.
Treasury member Sajjad Barakwal asked Mr Kundi what criteria he was talking about when the federal government was “given away” to those who won just 17 National Assembly seats in the 2024 general elections and even got reserved seats in the KP Assembly.
Treasury MPA Malik Adeel said that he and his party members would ensure that the civil award list carried all those deserving.
He also came down hard on the federal government for violating the apex court’s orders on the PTI founder’s Shifa Hospital transfer and warned that could happen in the future to the current rulers as well.
Leader of the Opposition Dr Ibadullah insisted that pointing out a lack of quorum in the house was not an illegal act, so a lawmaker could do so, but ironically, Deputy Speaker Suriyya Bibi, while chairing a sitting on Friday, banned Sobia Shahid of the opposition PML-N from the proceedings for that act.
The chair declared that during a meeting held afterward, the deputy speaker withdrew those orders.
The house passed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Fiscal Responsibility and Debt Management Amendment Bill, 2026, which was moved by law minister Aftab Alam Afridi.
The minister also produced reports on the Second Biannual Monitoring on Implementation of NFC Award for Jan-June 2023, the first Biannual Monitoring on Implementation of NFC Award for July-Dec 2023 and the first Biannual Monitoring on the Implementation of NFC Award for July-Dec 2024.
Opposition member Kundi pointed out that the federal and provincial finance ministers were bound by the law to monitor the NFC Award biannually and lay their reports in the provincial assemblies and parliament.
He said that the treasury should have tabled the 2026 annual report in the house but it was laid for 2024.
The lawmaker requested the treasury to prepare for the debate on how the utilisation of the resources distributed was monitored.
The chair observed that the treasury must ensure a detailed discussion on the matter.Through a calling attention notice, Shazia Jadoon of the opposition PML-N noted that a Unicef survey had found lead in 88 per cent of the blood samples collected from 77 children in Hattar Industrial Zone.
In response, health minister Khaleequr Rehman said a survey was carried out jointly by the Health Services Academy Islamabad, HRSU KP and Unicef, finding lead beyond the specified limit in blood samples.
He said the lead presence was reported between 18.3 and 21.3 micrograms per deciliter against the reference value of 3.1 micrograms per deciliter.
The chair later adjourned the sitting until 2pm today (Tuesday).
Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2026
