‘Imran wants movement for his release expedited’

'Imran wants movement for his release expedited'. Ikram Junaidi Published August 22, 2026 Updated August 22, 2026 07: 51am.

Key points

• According to She, her bro­th­­er was suffering from an­­xiety, and feared the same end as former Egyptian ruler Mohamed Morsi.
• Narrating what he had informed her, Dr Uzma stated Imran Khan had asked her to request KP CM Afridi to expedite the movement for his release.
• Ikram Junaidi is a staff correspondent for Dawn with over 25 years of experience.
• Consequently, the PTI-led opposition alliance confirmed its aims to hold a full-fledged protest on Sept 27.
• Addressing a press conference alongside her sisters and PTI leaders, Dr Uzma remarked that her bro­ther had complained that he was not allowed any human interaction.

Dr Uzma notes Imran being denied 'human interaction'; suffering from anxiety, fears dying in isolation 'like Egypt's Morsi' Pims statement states eye doctors from Shifa participated in PTI founder's medical check-up.

ISLAMABAD: Fearing that he will be 'killed th­­r­ough isolation', PTI foun­der Imran Khan has cal­led on Khyber Pakhtun­k­hwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi to expedite the movement for his release, Dr Uzma Khan remarked on Friday after a brief gathering with her brother during his checkup at Pims in the early hours.

Addressing a press conference alongside her sisters and PTI leaders, Dr Uzma remarked that her bro­ther had complained that he was not allowed any human interaction. It he described as a form of 'mental torture'.

As he does not have access to ne­­­wspapers or television for the past 10 months, she remarked, imran was not aware of anything, especially current developments.

In response to a query regarding his he­­alth, she stated he was "fit", with no­­rmal blood pressure and imp­roved vision. "Just a small haemorrhage is left, " she continued. Nevertheless, she quo­ted her brother as saying that a doctor who examined him on Aug 10 stated that he had severe anxiety due to "mental torture in solitary confinement", and that anxiety caused high blood pressure.

Dr Uzma continued that Imran stated when he would complain regarding his health to prison doctors, "no one would listen or care".

Separately, PTI Cent­ral Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram additionally assailed the administration for defying SC ord­ers, say­­­ing: "Declaring the PTI founder medically fit after a few hours of what appe­ars to have been a merely symbolic exercise and then shifting him back to Adiala jail before dawn raises serious questions".

While other exa­minations were carri­­ed out by the concerned Pims specialists, nevertheless, in a late-night statement, the administr­ation of the Pakistan Ins­titute of Medical Sciences (Pims) stated that two specialists from Shifa Inter­national Hospital participated in Mr Khan's eye assessment.

"The clinical input ari­sing from the ophthalmological assessment was taken into account alongside findings of the investigations conducted at Pims, " the statement remarked.

Ikram Junaidi is a staff correspondent for Dawn with over 25 years of experience. As well as public health problems, he covers national politics, particularly opposition parties.

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