ISLAMABAD: After a team of doctors from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) visited Adiala Jail, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, provided an update regarding the health of imprisoned party founder Imran Khan.
“Khan Saab is in good health and exercised for an hour today,” he said.
Gohar’s statement followed the PTI’s decision to postpone its protest at Islamabad’s D-Chowk, originally planned for the opening day of the SCO summit. This deferral came after Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi assured the party that a medical team would assess Imran Khan’s condition at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
Gohar confirmed that two doctors — an ENT specialist and a general medical specialist — visited Imran Khan at 4 p.m. at the jail.
“We were informed that Alhamdulillah, Khan Saab is in good health and had exercised for an hour today,” Gohar wrote on X (formerly Twitter), adding that medical reports would soon be shared.
He also thanked PTI supporters for their concern over the party leader’s well-being.
In another tweet, Barrister Gohar shared details from a medical report on Imran Khan’s condition, stating: “He was found to be active, afebrile, with normal blood pressure, pulse, and oxygen saturation (Spo2) at 96% in room air.” Khan had complained of dyspepsia (indigestion) for the past five days, for which he was already receiving treatment, and tinnitus, a condition he has been managing for several months.
“There are no fresh complaints regarding his ears,” the report concluded. “He is otherwise fit and healthy and does not require any further medication at the moment.”
The day before, Gohar had announced the PTI political committee’s decision to postpone the protest scheduled for October 15 due to the start of the SCO summit in Islamabad. Prior to accepting the government’s proposal, the PTI had requested permission for a meeting between Imran Khan, his sisters, and doctors, but this request was denied by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s administration.
Sources revealed that a team of doctors from PIMS would visit Adiala Jail to examine the former prime minister, and Khan’s private physician was also expected to be allowed to meet him. However, despite waiting outside the jail for over an hour and submitting his credentials, Imran Khan’s physician, Dr. Asim Yusuf, was not granted permission to meet him and eventually left.
