{"id":91246,"date":"2025-03-05T02:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/imran-wont-take-deal-despite-govt-pressure-says-aleema\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T02:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T02:54:01","slug":"imran-wont-take-deal-despite-govt-pressure-says-aleema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/imran-wont-take-deal-despite-govt-pressure-says-aleema\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran won\u2019t take deal, despite govt pressure, says Aleema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Aleema Khan, the sister of PTI founder Imran Khan, has said her brother will not sign a deal with the government despite being \u201cpressured to do so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While talking to reporters on Tuesday outside the Adiala Jail, where her brother is incarcerated, Ms Khan accused the government of \u201cusing all possible tactics\u201d to pressurise her brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Imran Khan has said that no matter what happens, he will not compromise and not sign a deal with the government,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that her brother was in good health and had no pain in his ear.<\/p>\n<p>A team of doctors who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1895619\">examined<\/a> the PTI founder in prison on Monday claimed that he was feeling pain in his ear.<\/p>\n<p>The team of doctors from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) was headed by ENT spec\u00adialist Dr Altaf Hussain.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Khan said the rum\u00ado\u00adurs circulating on social media regarding the hea\u00adlth of her brother were baseless.<\/p>\n<p>She also dismissed the rumours that her brother was suffering from a brain infection. \u201cAllah is protecting him,\u201d she said and claimed her brother was in good health.<\/p>\n<p>However, she said there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1893506\/pti-goes-to-court-against-restrictions-on-meeting-imran\">restrictions<\/a> on her brother in prison, due to which he was unable to communicate with his personal doctor and family members.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:250px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1891813\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ms Khan said that it was unfortunate that her brother was not being allowed to speak to his children and revealed that PTI lawyers, led by Salman Akram Raja, will file a petition in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>While replying to a question, she said the verdict on PTI\u2019s appeal in the Al-Qadir case might be announced in a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>However, she claimed that some individuals were trying to delay the decision. She didn\u2019t give any more details or name anyone.<\/p>\n<p>While talking about cricket, Ms Khan said that her brother \u2014 former captain of the Pakistan cricket team \u2014 was not pleased with the proposal to change the name of Peshawar\u2019s Arbab Niaz Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>He has demanded that the stadium not be renamed.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, it was reported that the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided to rename the stadium \u2014 currently named after Arbab Niaz, former federal minister for sports \u2014 to honour the former captain\u2019s role in shaping the nation\u2019s sports landscape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Govt\u2019s performance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the leader of opposition in National Assembly, Omar Ayub Khan, has said the government has failed in all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>While rebuffing the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1895821\/pm-shehbaz-pats-his-team-on-the-back\">claim<\/a> of progress, Mr Ayub said large-scale manufacturing has shrunk in the past year since the PML-N government took power.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of electricity and gas have also gone up, he claimed, adding the per unit electricity tariff during PTI\u2019s tenure was Rs17, but it has now increased to Rs85, he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, there has been a \u201c400pc increase\u201d in gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the government of releasing forged data regarding inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign investment has been stopped in Pakistan, while security issues have also worsened, he said, censuring the government.\u201cThe government is unwilling to speak the truth,\u201d Mr Ayub said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, March 5th, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Aleema Khan, the sister of PTI founder Imran Khan, has said her brother will not sign a deal with the government despite being \u201cpressured to do so\u201d. While talking to reporters on Tuesday outside the Adiala Jail, where her brother is incarcerated, Ms Khan accused the government of \u201cusing all possible tactics\u201d to pressurise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91247,"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:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2025\/03\/0507490990967a6.png?r=075216","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91246","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=91246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}