{"id":105263,"date":"2026-02-23T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/salman-akram-raja-says-pti-will-not-trust-government-medical-report-on-founder\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:45:02","slug":"salman-akram-raja-says-pti-will-not-trust-government-medical-report-on-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/salman-akram-raja-says-pti-will-not-trust-government-medical-report-on-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Akram Raja says PTI will not trust government medical report on founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"min-height:300px\">\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staged a protest outside the Supreme Court on Monday, demanding permission to meet the party\u2019s founding chairman, Imran Khan, and calling for a comprehensive medical examination for him, ARY News reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja said party leaders attempted to meet the Chief Justice but were unable to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried to arrange a meeting a short while ago, but it could not take place. I will try again,\u201d Raja said while addressing journalists outside the apex court.<\/p>\n<p>He described the matter as one of humanitarian concern, saying the PTI founder Imran Khan, currently incarcerated at Adiala Jail, remains the leader of the nation and should be granted access to medical care and family contact.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"We Will Not Accept Official Report on Imran Khan\u2019s Health: Salman Akram Raja\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2yytlaP7ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a humanitarian case. The person in Adiala is the leader of the nation. It is the right of the nation, our party, and his family that meetings with him should be allowed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Salman Akram Raja emphasized that the PTI founder, Imran Khan, requires a complete medical check-up, not just treatment related to his eye condition. He added that the examination should be conducted at Shifa International Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PTI founder must undergo treatment at Shifa International, and his overall medical check-up is necessary,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI leader also referred to two separate medical assessments regarding the PTI founder\u2019s health \u2014 one prepared by lawyer Salman Safdar and another by government authorities \u2014 saying the party does not trust the official report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not rely on any government report,\u201d Raja said.<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that the PTI founder, Imran Khan, was recently able to speak with his sons due to the intervention of the Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Salman Akram Raja added that the current moment is not about launching a movement or holding negotiations but about ensuring the PTI founder\u2019s health and rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could not meet the Chief Justice today, but we will try again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staged a protest outside the Supreme Court on Monday, demanding permission to meet the party\u2019s founding chairman, Imran Khan, and calling for a comprehensive medical examination for him, ARY News reported. Speaking to the media, PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja said party leaders attempted to meet the Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/salman-akram.jpg?imageMogr2\/format\/jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}