ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Information Secretary Sh Waqas Akram Wednesday expressed serious concern over the health of the party’s jailed founder Imran Khan and demanded that he be granted immediate access to his personal physicians.
In a strongly worded statement issued here, he contended there is growing concern across the country over the well-being of the party founder, calling for immediate steps to ensure he receives proper medical care.
He pointed out that the party had formally called for urgent medical access for Imran Khan. He noted that following the submission of a medical report by the PTI founder’s counsel, Salman Safdar, to the Supreme Court, as well as detailed information shared by Bushra Bibi’s family, it had become imperative to ensure that Khan receives proper and timely medical care.
Waqas emphasised that denying medical access to a political leader of national stature not only raises serious humanitarian concerns but also undermines fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Meanwhile, he vehemently condemned the ‘abduction and brutal torture of the Supreme Court Advocate and Form-45 MPA Ali Zaman’ and his brother Waseem Zaman, demanding that the authorities immediately hold the perpetrators accountable.
He said that PTI MPA Sindh Assembly Wajid Hussain was brutally tortured inside a Korangi police station, while PTI Karachi Division President Raja Azhar and Senior Vice President Fahim Khan were also subjected to violent custodial treatment by Sindh police. Waqas described the incident as a continuation of systematic fascism. PTI spokesman decried that the leadership and workers associated with Imran Khan are being subjected to such brutalities in clear defiance to national and international laws, marking a blatant attempt to silence political dissent through state-sponsored violence. He lashed out at the Punjab and Sindh regimes for unleashing a wave of fascism and brutality, subjecting elected PTI representatives and workers to inhumane treatment. He said that their “sole crime” was raising their voices against lawlessness, mounting constitutional violations, and mandate theft, while advocating for the restoration of the rule of law and genuine democracy. PTI spokesman noted that Ali Zaman, who is also a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, and his brother Waseem Zaman (Deputy General Secretary, Peshawar) were abducted on February 10, 2026, from Kutcheri Chowk, Rawalpindi. He claimed that they were held in illegal detention for several hours and subjected to inhumane torture during their disappearance, who were later abandoned and thrown away by their captors.
Meanwhile, Aleema Khan, sister of Imran Khan, has said that the eye problem of her brother has been going on for the last six months while the government has said that the eye of the founder of PTI was treated by taking him to the hospital. “Do we know who and what treatment was given,” she asked.
Talking to the media in Rawalpindi along with her lawyer Faisal Malik, she said that Salman Safdar met the party founder on Tuesday and he has said that he met the party supremo. “Tomorrow we will all go to the Supreme Court. We will know about the report only tomorrow regarding his health,” she noted.
She alleged that regarding the cases false witnesses are being presented in the courts.
Regarding the Basant in Lahore, she said that her children and her sister’s children flew kites of prisoner number 804, and on February 8, they did not go out for the rally; they sat at home and participated in the protest.
Talking to the media, her lawyer Faisal Malik said that the prosecution is relying on a USB; there are more than 65 videos in the USB, the videos presented against Aleema Khan are controversial and the court will reject the prosecution’s videos.
He said that the case against Aleema Khan is a political vendetta, the material presented in the case has become irrelevant and the case against her is ridiculous.
