Claim: A video shows a large convoy of vehicles transporting PTI founder Imran Khan from Adiala Jail to Shifa Hospital for treatment following the Supreme Court’s 18 August 2026 order.
Fact: The clip is from 2025 and may show KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi travelling to attend a session of the Punjab Assembly in December 2025 where he met PTI lawmakers.
On 19 August, multiple social media users shared a video showing a large security convoy that, according to them, transported Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, from Adiala Jail — also known as Rawalpindi Central Jail — to Shifa International Hospital for treatment.
Screenshot of one of the viral posts
Supreme Court’s order
The 18 August order to move Khan — incarcerated since August 2023 — to the hospital was issued by Supreme Court Justice Shahid Waheed, who said he must be shifted within 48 hours. The judge also directed that the former premier should be allowed to meet his family “once a week”, “speak to his sons via telephone twice weekly”, and that a medical board should be constituted in this regard.
The PTI founder’s lawyers have previously said he suffers “various health conditions, including poor eyesight, and has been unable to access specialist medical care”.
The PTI praised the ruling and stressed that it should be implemented “immediately, fully, and without delay”. One of the former premier’s sons, Kasim Khan, told Reuters that he and his brother hope the Pakistani government “issues our visas to Pakistan simply so we can come and see him”. The two haven’t met their father since 2022 reportedly in the absence of a visa.
However, on 19 August, Pakistani authorities urged the top court to “review or withdraw” the order and said he would be taken to state hospitals if medical treatment is not available in the jail.
Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar noted that “after reviewing the law, the authorities are of the view that this order does not fall within the scope of the existing prison laws”. He said moving a prisoner to a private hospital “could have implications for the prison population across the country, as thousands of prisoners suffer from various illnesses and medical complications”.
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar clarified that the government was not blocking Khan’s medical treatment, as long as it was conducted under prison guidelines.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check reverse-searched keyframes from the viral video and found it to be old and unrelated to recent events.
The video predates the Supreme Court’s order and posts by multiple PTI-focused pages in December 2025 suggest it shows Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s convoy travelling to the Punjab Assembly where he would meet the party’s lawmakers.
Afridi addressed the party’s lawmakers in the Punjab Assembly, where, reportedly, there were “altercations between members of his entourage and security officials” and “several heated exchanges between PTI leaders and journalists”. He was due to launch a street movement from the city.
The accompanying captions read as follows:
“سہیل آفریدی پنجاب اسمبلی پہنچ گئے وہاں پی ٹی آئی پارلیمنٹیرینز سے ملاقات کریں گے
[Sohail Afridi has reached Punjab Assembly, where he will meet PTI parliamentarians]”
Comparison of keyframes from two of the viral videos (L and C) from August 2026 and the original clip from December 2025 (R)
Soch Fact Check, therefore, concludes that the viral clip does not show former PM Khan being transported from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital.
Virality
Soch Fact Check found that the video was shared more than two dozen times on Facebook.
It was also posted seven times on Instagram and four times on X (formerly Twitter), where it cumulatively gained over 190,800 views.
Conclusion: The clip is from 2025; it may show KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi travelling to the Punjab Assembly in December 2025 to meet PTI parliamentarians.
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