ISLAMABAD: The opposition alliance Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-i-Ayin-i-Pakistan (TTAP) announced on Wednesday it would end its days-long sit-in at Parliament House over ex-premier Imran Khan’s health concerns.
However, it reiterated the demand being voiced by Imran’s family to grant the PTI founder access to his personal physicians and allow jail meetings with his relatives.
Earlier in the day, the TTAP leadership reached the Supreme Court (SC) to show solidarity with Imran during the hearing of his cases.
“Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, and others have reached the Supreme Court,” TTAP spokesperson Akhunzada Hussain Yousafzai told. Dawn.
He added that the leadership has arrived at the court and will hold a media briefing once they return.
“They may announce further strategy regarding the protest and will also address the crackdown on PTI supporters,” he had said.
The TTAP also shared a video of Achakzai inside the SC premises and speaking to Imran’s sister Aleema Khan.
Ahead of the SC hearing, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi met with Imran’s three sisters — namely Aleema, Noreen Niazi and Uzma Khanum.
“A detailed discussion was held on Imran Khan’s health, judicial matters, other affairs and the challenges being faced in these,” the PTI said.
TTAP ‘demands’ full medical access for Imran
In the early hours of Wednesday, the TTAP also shared a list of five “immediate and unconditional demands”.
The first was immediately granting Imran “complete and confidential access” to his personal physicians Dr Aasim Yusuf and Dr Faisal Sultan, so “they could conduct a medical examination independently”.
The alliance further asked for certified copies of Imran’s medical tests, diagnostic reports, X-rays, scans and laboratory results to be shared with his personal physicians.
The TTAP also demanded that the PTI founder’s personal doctors be “given full authority to formulate their independent medical opinion without the presence or pressure of the government’s medical board”.
It further sought “regular and continuous follow-up examinations” of the PTI founder by his personal physicians.
Lastly, the TTAP demanded that, for transparency and accountability, the government clarify in writing why “any obstruction or delay occurred in the provision of treatment, diagnosis, and medical facilities”, and also provide assurance that such negligence will not be repeated in the future.
The TTAP stressed that any kind of “delay, excuses or staged actions” would be unacceptable. “The matter of Imran’s health is not political, but a requirement of human and constitutional responsibility,” it added.
Family members and senior party leaders have repeatedly attempted to meet him at Adiala jail in recent weeks, but most visits have been blocked by authorities.
The SC’s intervention on February 10 allowed PTI lawyer Salman Safdar to meet Imran, with the ex-premier telling the counsel he had “15 percent” vision left in his right eye. This followed a “medical procedure” that Imran underwent on the night of January 24.
A report prepared by a team of doctors who visited Imran on February 15 stated that, unaided, Imran’s right eye had 6/24 partial vision and 6/9 in the left. It said that with glasses, the ex-premier’s vision was 6/9 partial in the right and 6/6 in the left.
However, the PTI founder’s family and the opposition alliance rejected the report and demanded that Imran’s personal physician Dr Yusuf and family members be allowed regular and confidential access to monitor his condition.
The TTAP framed their sit-in as a push against the government’s alleged negligence and lack of transparency regarding Imran’s treatment.
