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Pakistan's Opposition confederation connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) ended its days-long sit-in successful the nationalist superior implicit concerns astir the health of jailed erstwhile Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-i-Ayin-in-Pakistan (TTAP), an confederation that includes Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, launched protests connected Friday (February 13, 2026) astatine 2 locations successful Islamabad, including the premises of parliament and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa House building.
TTAP main Mehmood Khan Achakzai led the sit-in astatine the premises of parliament, portion Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi organised the different protest.
However, the radical wrapped up the protests, saying that it achieved the intent of highlighting the wellness contented of Khan. “Thanks to God, determination is simply a insignificant betterment compared to the concern before, erstwhile the imaginativeness had gone completely, conscionable a small bit,” said Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, the Leader of the Opposition successful the Senate.
He demanded that Khan's idiosyncratic doc should beryllium allowed to conscionable him, and the PTI person should beryllium treated astatine the backstage Shifa International Hospital successful Islamabad.
Elaborating connected the determination to extremity the sit-in, helium said that the radical took into relationship the commencement of Ramadan, which is expected to statesman connected Thursday.
"And successful the adjacent stage, we tin instrumentality antithetic measures arsenic TTAP, and we volition bash truthful arsenic we person time," helium said and urged the authorities to resoluteness the contented related to Khan’s health.
TTAP main Achakzai, PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan and PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja were contiguous during the property conference.
Earlier, the TTAP leadership, including Achakzai, Abbas, Gohar and Raja, visited the Supreme Court to amusement solidarity with Khan during the proceeding of his cases, including a petition to let a gathering with Khan.
The tribunal denied a plea by the PTI person Latif Khosa for a gathering with the erstwhile premier.
The tribunal past week tasked PTI lawyer Salman Safdar to conscionable Khan and record a report. He met Khan and filed the report, highlighting the contented of Khan’s eyesight due to the fact that the erstwhile premier claimed to person mislaid 85 per cent imaginativeness successful his close eye.
However, a study prepared by a squad of doctors who visited Khan connected February 15 said that, unaided, Khan's close oculus had 6/24 partial imaginativeness and 6/9 successful the left, adding that with glasses, the ex-premier’s imaginativeness was 6/9 partial successful the close and 6/6 successful the left.
Khan’s household and enactment rejected the study and demanded entree to him by his idiosyncratic doctors and household members.
Meanwhile, KPK Chief Minister Afridi announced the enactment of a peculiar unit aimed astatine securing the merchandise of Khan.
Speaking to the media extracurricular the Supreme Court, Afridi said that the PTI laminitis had entrusted him with the work of starring a thoroughfare movement, lamenting that tribunal orders were often ignored.
He said the projected “Release Force” would prosecute a peaceful struggle, adding that each members would instrumentality an oath connected February 22 successful Peshawar.
Afridi maintained that the force’s concatenation of bid would yet study to Khan.
According to the main minister, the question would beryllium dedicated to the extortion of democracy, the supremacy of the Constitution, and a escaped media.
Addressing interior enactment dissent, Afridi warned those wrong Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf who were seeking his removal that honour and disgrace travel from God alone.
Khan has been successful jailhouse since August 5, 2023, facing aggregate corruption cases. He was convicted and sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment successful a corruption case, portion implicit a twelve cases are astatine antithetic stages successful the courts.
