ISLAMABAD(National times)- Opposition Leader in the National Assembly, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, has announce to stage sit-in outside Parliament House from today (Friday), Dunya News reported. In his statement on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Achakzai said that a peaceful sit-in will begin outside Parliament House from Friday. He said that the opposition alliance will present their demands during the sit-in and added that the sit-in protest will continue if the demands are not accepted. He added that, God forbid, if anything goes wrong in accepting the demands, the government will be held responsible. Senate opposition leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas also spoke to the media alongside the PTI leadership. He announced that opposition alliance, Tehreek-i-Tahafuz-i-Ayin-i-Pakistan (TTAP), would stage a sit-in after Friday prayers. “We demand that Khan sahib be given full access to doctors whom he trusts,” the Allama added. He said that Imran’s physician, Dr Asim Yusuf, is at Shifa Hospital. Dr Amir Awan and Dr Mazhar Ishaq, the two top specialists in Rawalpindi, are also here. “We can trust them, so we demand that he (Imran) be shifted immediately and provided the right treatment,” he added. “He (Imran) was in the custody of the government, and his medical care and access to doctors were their responsibility,” he asserted.

SALMAN RAJA SPEAKS

Earlier, PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja, alongside Imran’s sister Aleema Khanum and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, told media outside the Supreme Court that “this state has committed a crime against Imran Khan.” He stated that the “face of this crime is Abdul Ghafoor Anjum. We will not forget this name”. Anjum has served as the superintendent at the Adiala jail, where Imran is imprisoned. He said the pain in Imran’s eye began in November, and “sometime in December, he completely lost vision in his right eye”. He was not taken to hospital, and a qualified doctor to treat him was also not called. Instead, prison doctors kept giving him eye drops as Imran continued to complain that the pain in his eye was not subsiding, he added. Raja said that when the situation worsened, Ghafoor Anjum was immediately replaced on January 16. The new administrator who replaced him also wasted 10 days before a doctor from PIMS, Dr Arif, was called [to the Adiala jail] on January 26.” Raja said Safdar told the court that according to jail staff, he was transferred on Jan 16, being replaced by Sajid Baig.