{"id":195,"date":"2026-01-30T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:41:58","slug":"kp-cm-afridi-reaches-sc-to-request-cjp-to-facilitate-meeting-between-imran-khan-and-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"KP CM Afridi reaches SC to request CJP to facilitate meeting between Imran Khan and physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/01\/301219196b17661.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Friday reached to the Supreme Court to request the chief justice to facilitate a meeting between incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan and his personal physicians.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left  media--embed  media--uneven media--tweet\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PTIofficial\/status\/2017129394972618898\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTIofficial\/status\/2017129394972618898\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, Afridi rushed to Adiala jail in Rawalpindi after a report that Imran was taken briefly to Pims hospital for a medical procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The KP CM said he would be camping at the spot overnight outside the prison, along with the party\u2019s general secretary, Salman Akram Raja.<\/p>\n<p>However, Afridi, along with the party\u2019s leadership, left the spot at around 3am.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1960612\"><u>seeking a meeting<\/u><\/a> with the incarcerated prime minister since he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1949099\"><u>assumed office <\/u><\/a>of the provincial chief executive in October last year, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>However, he, as well as Imran\u2019s sisters and lawyers, have been barred from meeting him for the past several weeks \u2014 a restriction that has made sit-ins and protests near the prison a usual occurrence. On several occasions, police have also used force to disperse the protesters, who often camp at Factory Naka.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media on Thursday, Afridi announced his plans for an overnight stay and said \u201cmost of [PTI] parliamentarians have also reached the spot and some others will be arriving in some time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The KP CM said if Imran\u2019s sisters were allowed to meet him, the situation could be prevented from worsening.<\/p>\n<p>CM Afridi\u2019s visit comes after the PTI on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1969364\/pti-says-imran-suffering-from-ailment-that-could-permanently-damage-his-eyesight-if-not-treated-promptly\"><u>raised concerns<\/u><\/a> about Imran\u2019s health. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1969716\/imran-khan-underwent-20-minute-medical-procedure-at-islamabads-pims-confirms-info-minister\"><u>confirmed<\/u><\/a> earlier in the day that the PTI founder had undergone a medical procedure for an eye ailment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) in Islamabad on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Tarar\u2019s statement, Afridi said he had \u201cserious reservations\u201d about the former premier\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>More to follow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1969894\/kp-cm-afridi-reaches-sc-to-request-cjp-to-facilitate-meeting-between-imran-khan-and-physicians\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Friday reached to the Supreme Court to request the chief justice to facilitate a meeting between incarcerated PTI founder&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}