Bushra Bibi's vision badly affected, lawyer tells Islamabad High Court
Barrister Salman Safdar's affidavit in the 190 million pound case says she cannot bear light and faces another eye operation around 15 November.
Barrister Salman Safdar has told the Islamabad High Court that Bushra Bibi's vision has been severely affected and that she cannot open her eyes without dark glasses, according to an affidavit he filed in the 190 million pound case.
The affidavit, reported by Express News, follows his meeting with the PTI founder Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi at Adiala Jail. Jail authorities informed him on 31 October that the meeting was fixed for 2 November at 3:30 pm, it states. The meeting began at 4 pm and lasted about 40 minutes.
Safdar states that Bushra Bibi wore unusually dark black glasses throughout. When she took them off at his request and at Imran Khan's, she appeared to be in severe distress. She told him she could bear neither sunlight nor artificial light, and could not open her eyes without the glasses. He says her eyes looked extremely delicate and that he felt her sight had been badly affected. Imran Khan, he states, appeared clearly worried about her worsening vision.
According to the affidavit, Bushra Bibi said the doctors who examined her had described the condition as mature cataract and had told her that another operation on her eyes would be needed around 15 November.
She also expressed dissatisfaction with the standard of cleanliness in the jail and with the treatment being provided to her, and asked that her examination and treatment be carried out by her own doctors. Safdar states that he assured her he would take the matter up and bring it to the court's notice.
Separately, Bushra Bibi has filed a miscellaneous application asking the court to call for her complete medical record and seeking an immediate examination by an eye specialist. The application, filed through Safdar and Khalid Yousuf Chaudhry, says her eye condition is deteriorating rapidly and that an eye specialist and the jail medical officer should be consulted at once.
How the reports differ
UrduPoint led on Barrister Salman Safdar's claim that Bushra Bibi's eyes were in an extremely delicate condition and on the filing of his affidavit in the Islamabad High Court, and its published report carried no further detail. Express News led on what it called his first major disclosure after the jail meeting and filled in the account: the intimation on 31 October, the 40-minute meeting on 2 November, the 'mature cataract' diagnosis and the operation expected around 15 November. Express News also carried Bushra Bibi's separate miscellaneous application for an eye specialist's examination and her full medical record, which UrduPoint did not report.
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