Summary Supreme Court will hear Imran Khan treatment and meeting pleas on August 18 as PTI pushes for access through political negotiations.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - The Supreme Court has fixed for hearing on August 18 petitions seeking medical treatment and meetings with incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan.
A three-member bench headed by Justice Shahid Waheed and comprising Justice Naeem Afghan and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim will hear the petitions.
The Registrar’s Office has issued notices to all relevant parties and their counsels.
Imran Khan has remained incarcerated since August 2023 and faces multiple cases, including corruption and terrorism-related charges, following his removal from office through a no-confidence vote in April 2022.
Meanwhile, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi said the PTI leadership and Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) alliance had agreed on a September 27 long march to Islamabad.
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Speaking on a television programme, Afridi said the date had been finalised jointly by the party’s central and provincial leadership and its allied group.
He said the purpose of the long march would not be Imran Khan’s release but securing access to the PTI founder.
Senate Opposition Leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas said PTI could return to parliamentary standing committees if the government facilitated a meeting with Imran Khan.
Speaking to journalists, he alleged that the government was creating ambiguity over Imran Khan’s health to create divisions within PTI. He said the opposition would support negotiations if the government arranged a meeting with the PTI founder.
Raja Nasir said PTI had previously taken a detailed negotiation plan to Imran Khan at Adiala Jail but declined to hold talks at the Prime Minister’s House or the Speaker’s office, arguing that doing so would grant legitimacy to a government it did not recognise.
He said PTI was willing to negotiate in the Constitution Room of Parliament House if the government was serious about talks.
Commenting on Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s assessment that the country’s system had collapsed, Raja Nasir said Naqvi had correctly identified the problem but proposed an unlawful remedy. He called for a genuinely representative government.
