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Pakistan’s jailed former premier curate Imran Khan was connected Sunday (February 15, 2026) examined by a squad of doctors aft a reported eyesight issue portion his enactment rejected the inspection.
A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawyer visited Khan connected Thursday connected the directive of the Supreme Court to get a first-hand study connected his surviving conditions. The study showed that Khan complained of losing astir 85% imaginativeness successful his close eye.
The tribunal ordered authorities to transportation retired a elaborate aesculapian checkup of the 73-year-old erstwhile cricketer-turned-politician earlier February 16.
Sources said that a squad of doctors visited Khan and examined the affected oculus successful detail.
“The aesculapian introspection went connected for an hr and the squad near aft collecting humor samples,” sources said.
Last month, Khan was taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) successful Islamabad and a process was performed connected his eye.
However, helium complained of losing imaginativeness during the gathering with the lawyer, inviting demands by his household and the PTI to let his attraction astatine a backstage hospital.
It was indicated by authorities figures connected Saturday that Khan would soon beryllium taken to a hospital, but alternatively doctors were taken to jailhouse to transportation retired the examination.
PTI rejects inspection
His enactment refused to judge the latest inspection, saying that without the beingness of the PTI, his household and Khan’s idiosyncratic doctors, the government’s stance was “deemed malicious”.
“Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf categorically rejects the caller behaviour of the authorities and jailhouse medication regarding the aesculapian introspection of erstwhile premier curate Imran Khan’s oculus successful Adiala Jail.
“The government’s assertion that a connection was sent to the enactment enactment to get astatine the jailhouse astatine the clip of the introspection is, successful fact, a crude effort to divert attraction from the halfway issue,” the PTI said successful a station connected X.
“This substance was ne'er astir the beingness oregon lack of the enactment leadership. In specified delicate and delicate aesculapian matters, the constitutional, moral, and ineligible close to marque decisions belongs to Imran Khan’s family.
“And the household cannot marque an informed determination until Imran Khan’s idiosyncratic doctors are contiguous during the examination. Therefore, inviting the enactment enactment symbolically has neither immoderate motivation rationale nor immoderate ineligible justification,” it said.
Khan has been successful jailhouse since August 5, 2023, erstwhile helium was arrested astatine his Lahore residence aft his condemnation successful a corruption case. Currently, helium is incarcerated astatine the high-security Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
