Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has generated significant attention since a report submitted to the Supreme Court claimed that incarcerated former PM Imran Khan lost 85 per cent vision to his right eye ostensibly for not getting medical care in time.

Interior minister accuses PTI leaders of politicising health issues Says we can’t hospitalise someone merely on political demand Supreme Court receives detailed report about facilities being provided to ex-PM in jail.

Says mentioning social origins serves no forensic purpose

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Says PTI founder should have stuck to charity work

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Lower house holds 11 sittings, three joint sittings in parliamentary year

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PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and police to ensure the reopening of roads blocked by PTI supporters and protesters in recent days. The protesting PTI workers have blocked KP’s entry and exit points for the past five days, demanding that the federal government move incarcerated party founder Imran Khan from jail to a hospital for medical treatment. A two-member bench headed by Justice Ijaz Anwar and including Justice Farah Jamshed took up the set of petitions filed by MPA Sobia Shahid, lawyer Tariq Afghan, Swabi resident Yousaf Ali and Shaoor Khan. Upon the bench summoning them, KP Inspector General Zulfiqar Hameed, Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah and Advocate General Shah Faisal Utmankhel appeared in court. At the outset of the hearing, Justice Anwar inquired about how many days it had been since the roads were blocked. “The roads have been shut for the past three days. Initially, 14 points were blocked, and now protests are underway at six points...

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A 22-year-old student of Fatima Jinnah Medical College, identified as Fareeha, died after reportedly jumping from the roof of a hostel building in Lahore, police and hospital officials confirmed on Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD: As the TTAP’s sit-in continued for the fifth day after the blocked routes to Parliament House were cleared, the alliance expressed hope on Tuesday that at least one family member of the incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan or a party leader would be allowed to meet him today amid concerns about his health. The hope, however, did not materialise. In the afternoon, an X account of the PTI said that a vehicle carrying Imran’s sisters was stopped at the Chakri Interchange while on its way to the Adiala jail. Later, Imran’s sister Aleema Khanum also claimed in a post that “we were stopped at the Chakri police post by the police. When we informed them that we intended to leave and proceed to Islamabad, they unlawfully blocked us and detained us there for the next four hours”. “We have now been released and are on our way to Islamabad,” she added. PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Secretary General Salman Akram Raja also sought to meet Imran today but were told by the Adiala jail administration tha...

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