{"id":3107,"date":"2026-02-16T06:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:58:52","slug":"ttap-pti-sit-in-enters-fourth-day-roads-leading-to-parliament-house-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=3107","title":{"rendered":"TTAP, PTI sit-in enters fourth day; roads leading to Parliament House cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/02\/16111815f0c03de.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Roads leading to the Parliament House were cleared on Monday morning as the PTI and opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz-i-Ayeen Pakistan (TTAP)\u2019s sit-in over Imran\u2019s health entered its fourth day.<\/p>\n<p>The sit-in, which began on Friday, was announced hours after the Supreme Court (SC) was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1972699\/imran-claims-only-15pc-vision-left-in-right-eye-sc-forms-medical-team-to-examine-pti-founder\"><u>informed<\/u><\/a> that only 15 per cent vision was left in the PTI founder\u2019s right eye, prompting a strong response from the opposition alliance.<\/p>\n<p>TTAP spokesperson Akhunzada Yousafzai, speaking to <em>Dawn<\/em>, said it was a surprising step that all the routes had been cleared.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, roads leading to Parliament House were blocked ahead of the sit-in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, we are going to have breakfast after four days, as previously we were eating only dates and biscuits and were being forced to drink tap water. It has been decided to merge the sit-in at the Parliament lodges with the one at Parliament House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition\u2019s sit-in was initially held at three places, including the Parliament House, led by TTAP head Mahmood Khan Achakzai and Allama Raja Nasir Abbas. The protest outside the Parliament lodges was led by PTI parliamentarians, while at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House, KP CM Sohail Afridi led the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoreover, as the government is going to file a report regarding Imran Khan\u2019s health in the Supreme Court, we will examine it and will take a further decision,\u201d Yousafzai told <em>Dawn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yousafzai stated that the sit-in was going to continue until all demands were accepted by the government.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a team of doctors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1973599\/five-doctor-team-examines-imran-in-jail\">examined <\/a>the PTI founder at Adiala Jail and left the premises after around an hour, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The party rejected the inspection conducted without his family and personal physicians, terming it \u201cmalicious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters earlier on Sunday, PTI MNA Asad Qaiser said that his party, along with the opposition alliance, will continue the sit-in to pressure the government so that Imran can be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not compromise on Imran\u2019s health,\u201d he said, adding that the government was testing the stamina of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have decided to continue our sit-ins until our demands are accepted and our leader, Imran Khan, is taken to the Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad. Moreover, we have also decided to approach the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday to get justice and the right to medical treatment for Imran,\u201d he told <em>Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A TTAP leader, speaking on condition of anonymity on Sunday, said they had been told the previous night that Imran would be shifted to Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, but later received messages suggesting the sit-in should be called off first.<\/p>\n<p>The TTAP had also alleged that access to food, water and medicines had been blocked for protesters inside Parliament House for a third consecutive day, a day earlier, calling it a violation of democratic and constitutional values.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1973639\/ttap-pti-sit-in-enters-fourth-day-roads-leading-to-parliament-house-cleared\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Roads leading to the Parliament House were cleared on Monday morning as the PTI and opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz-i-Ayeen Pakistan (TTAP)\u2019s sit-in over Imran\u2019s health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3107","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\/3107","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=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}