Barrister Salman Safdar and Sardar Latif Khosa were let into the prison on 11 November, a day after the Islamabad High Court told jail officials to arrange the visit. The bench had set the limit at one hour per consultation. Both lawyers drove into the compound by car under the court-fixed arrangement. According to a statement Safdar posted on X, the authorities in fact allowed him to sit with Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, between 4pm and 7pm.
Reports of the exact duration differ. Khosa told journalists that the two lawyers spent roughly two hours with the couple in the prison conference room, while sources quoted by ARY News said they remained inside the jail for about four hours overall.
The length of the session carries weight for the defence team because access has been rare. Safdar had told the court that he last saw Khan seven months earlier and Bushra Bibi eleven months earlier, and that his previous meeting was too short to take full instructions. That earlier visit, on 2 November, lasted about 40 minutes.
Ahead of the visit, Safdar said the talks would stay strictly on legal matters rather than politics. Afterwards, Khosa said most of the conversation with Imran Khan followed that line.
Safdar said he will keep representing both husband and wife in the main appeals linked to the Al-Qadir Trust case, while Khosa will assist on Bushra Bibi’s eye complication and on applications still pending before the high court. The court has asked the two lawyers to start arguing the £190 million appeals at the next hearing, due about ten days after its order. Safdar was expected to brief the media on Thursday.
Officials, for their part, have long maintained that Khan is safe, in good health and receiving the facilities set out in the jail manual, with meetings arranged according to those rules. PTI has countered that the court-decreed schedule of Tuesday and Thursday visits is not being honoured.
The next test will be whether the authorities honour further court-ordered visits without the long gaps the defence team describes, and what Safdar discloses on Thursday about the discussions