Supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) occasion chant slogans throughout a protest over issues about their chief’s well being in Karachi, Pakistan
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Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan was on Sunday (February 15, 2026) examined by a staff of medical doctors after a reported eyesight challenge whereas his occasion rejected the inspection.
A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawyer visited Khan on Thursday on the directive of the Supreme Court docket to get a first-hand report on his residing situations. The report confirmed that Khan complained of shedding about 85% imaginative and prescient in his proper eye.
The courtroom ordered authorities to hold out an in depth medical checkup of the 73-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician earlier than February 16.
Sources stated {that a} staff of medical doctors visited Khan and examined the affected eye intimately.
“The medical examination went on for an hour and the staff left after accumulating blood samples,” sources stated.
Final month, Khan was taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad and a process was carried out on his eye.
Nonetheless, he complained of shedding imaginative and prescient through the assembly with the lawyer, inviting calls for by his household and the PTI to permit his therapy at a non-public hospital.
It was indicated by authorities figures on Saturday that Khan would quickly be taken to a hospital, however as a substitute medical doctors had been taken to jail to hold out the examination.
PTI rejects inspection
His occasion refused to just accept the most recent inspection, saying that with out the presence of the PTI, his household and Khan’s private medical doctors, the federal government’s stance was “deemed malicious”.
“Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf categorically rejects the current conduct of the federal government and jail administration concerning the medical examination of former prime minister Imran Khan’s eye in Adiala Jail.
“The federal government’s declare {that a} message was despatched to the occasion management to reach on the jail on the time of the examination is, actually, a crude try and divert consideration from the core challenge,” the PTI stated in a put up on X.
“This matter was by no means concerning the presence or absence of the occasion management. In such delicate and delicate medical issues, the constitutional, ethical, and authorized proper to make choices belongs to Imran Khan’s household.
“And the household can not make an knowledgeable determination till Imran Khan’s private medical doctors are current through the examination. Due to this fact, inviting the occasion management symbolically has neither any ethical rationale nor any authorized justification,” it stated.
Khan has been in jail since August 5, 2023, when he was arrested at his Lahore residence after his conviction in a corruption case. Presently, he’s incarcerated on the high-security Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
Printed – February 16, 2026 06:35 am IST