PTI rejects Imran's medical check-up move

Says govt can reduce tension by allowing leaders, family meet ex-PM

ISLAMABAD:

Former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan has rejected his medical check-up by government doctors and its prospective report, PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja claimed on Tuesday.

"We do not accept any such medical report from government doctors, as strange reports were issued in the past as well," Raja said while talking to the media outside Adiala Jail, where Imran has been detained for over two years.

A team of doctors from Islamabad's Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) conducted the medical examination of the PTI founder at the prison facility on Tuesday amid PTI's claims that the former PM was being subjected to mental torture.

Raja said the PTI leaders only wanted to meet Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi.

He said he was not aware of the discussion that took place between the PTI parliamentary team and PML-N's Rana Sanaullah, "but if it was regarding securing a meeting with the founder and Bushra Bibi, then it is valid."

Also speaking to the media outside the prison, PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan said the country cannot afford further chaos and tension and that efforts should be made to reduce this tension and restore peace.

He said under the Islamabad High Court's order, the family and lawyers were supposed to meet Imran Khan, but "we were not allowed to meet Imran even today".

"I am saying only this—once meetings with the party founder and Bushra Bibi take place, the situation will improve. When meetings were taking place earlier, the matter was moving in a better direction," he said.

He said National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq had assured the PTI that the meeting would take place, adding that Sadiq has always played a positive role. He said the PTI founder has authorized Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Allama Raja Nasir Abbas to negotiate with the government.