TTAP sit-in at Parliament House continues amid govt assurances regarding Imran’s health

2026-02-13 - 16:56

A day after revelations emerged about the vision loss of PTI founder Imran Khan, the opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz-i-Ayeen Pakistan (TTAP) reached Parliament House on Friday to stage a sit-in. On Thursday, the Supreme Court (SC) was informed that PTI founder Imran Khan’s right eye had only 15 per cent vision remaining, prompting a strong response from the party. Subsequently, the TTAP announced the sit-in outside the Parliament House on Friday (today). In a post on X, the opposition alliance said that “a sit-in has started outside the parliament house,” vowing that it will “continue until Imran is admitted to Al-Shifa Hospital“. “No compromise will be made on Imran Khan’s health,” the TTAP said, adding that all PTI parliamentarians were set to join the sit-in. Separately, PTI leader Asad Qaiser said that PTI lawmakers reached the parliament “after overcoming all the obstacles in their way” ahead of the sit-in. Qaiser said that he, along with the leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Shahram Khan Tarakai, and Shandana Gulzar, reached the assembly. He added that the “group discussed the present situation and deliberated on the future course of action”. He later shared a video of the sit-in outside Parliament House, saying that they were demanding the provision of medical facilities for Imran in the presence of his family and personal physician. “Providing the best medical facilities is Imran Khan’s legal and constitutional right. No compromise will be made on Imran Khan’s health. If our demands are not met, we will announce our next course of action,” he said. At around 7:40pm, the TTAP said in a post on X that the sit-in was now being held in a corridor of the Parliament House under the leadership of National Assembly and Senate opposition leaders, Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, respectively. The protest was actually being staged at the Parliament House’s main entrance, where the opposition reiterated that the sit-in would continue until Imran was moved to the hospital. Earlier in the day, TTAP chief Achakzai had also vowed to continue the sit-in “until all demands are met”. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi was also in Islamabad, but his Focal Person on Digital Media Yar Muhammad Khan Niazi alleged in a post on X in the evening that “Islamabad police forcibly stopped” the CM and other members of the provincial assembly from reaching the Parliament House. Consequently, they staged a sit-in outside the KP House in the federal capital, he said. It was also alleged in