Supporters of jailed former High Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) birthday celebration chant slogans all the intention by a explain over concerns about their chief’s well being in Karachi, Pakistan
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Pakistan’s jailed former high minister Imran Khan change into as soon as on Sunday (February 15, 2026) examined by a team of doctors after a reported eyesight issue while his birthday celebration rejected the inspection.
A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) prison educated visited Khan on Thursday on the directive of the Supreme Courtroom to accumulate a first-hand bid on his residing prerequisites. The bid confirmed that Khan complained of losing about 85% vision in his good discover.
The courtroom ordered authorities to stay an intensive scientific checkup of the 73-Three hundred and sixty five days-conventional former cricketer-grew to develop to be-flesh presser before February 16.
Sources stated that a team of doctors visited Khan and examined the affected discover in detail.
“The scientific examination went on for an hour and the team left after collecting blood samples,” sources stated.
Final month, Khan change into as soon as taken to the Pakistan Institute of Clinical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad and a map change into as soon as performed on his discover.
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Nonetheless, he complained of losing vision all the intention by the assembly with the prison educated, fascinating demands by his family and the PTI to permit his treatment at a deepest well being heart.
It change into as soon as indicated by executive figures on Saturday that Khan would soon be taken to a well being heart, but as an different doctors were taken to jail to stay the examination.
PTI rejects inspection
His birthday celebration refused to honest obtain basically the most stylish inspection, announcing that without the presence of the PTI, his family and Khan’s private doctors, the manager’s stance change into as soon as “deemed malicious”.
“Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf categorically rejects basically the most stylish conduct of the manager and jail administration regarding the scientific examination of former high minister Imran Khan’s discover in Adiala Penal complex.
“The executive’s yelp that a message change into as soon as sent to the birthday celebration management to advance on the jail on the time of the examination is, if truth be told, a wrong try to divert attention from the core issue,” the PTI stated in a put up on X.
“This subject change into as soon as never in regards to the presence or absence of the birthday celebration management. In such sensitive and mute scientific matters, the constitutional, good, and good good to believe choices belongs to Imran Khan’s family.
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“And the family cannot believe an educated decision unless Imran Khan’s private doctors are most stylish all the intention by the examination. Therefore, fascinating the birthday celebration management symbolically has neither any good rationale nor any good justification,” it stated.
Khan has been in jail since August 5, 2023, when he change into as soon as arrested at his Lahore attach of dwelling after his conviction in a corruption case. At the 2d, he is incarcerated on the high-security Adiala Penal complex, Rawalpindi.
Printed – February 16, 2026 06:35 am IST
