- Raja says legal avenues are completely exhausted.
- Bushra Bibi faced with fabricated cases: Raja.
- “PTI founder jailed for thousand days.”
ISLAMABAD: PTI general secretary Salman Akram Raja on Wednesday claimed that party founder Imran Khan had lost vision in one eye due to alleged torture in prison and was facing serious health risks in detention.
“Today, all doors of justice seem closed,” Raja told reporters outside the Islamabad High Court, alleging that the PTI founder had been jailed for 1,000 days and was being deprived of his basic constitutional rights.
The claim comes days after Khan received a fourth intravitreal eye injection at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on April 28 as part of his ongoing follow-up treatment.
The jailed PTI founder was diagnosed with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), a serious eye disease, according to a report submitted to the Supreme Court by his lawyer and amicus curiae of the court, Salman Safdar.
This disease occurs when the main vein draining blood from the retina is blocked and is often associated with cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and heart disease.
During today’s media discussions, Raja claimed that meetings with the PTI founder and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were restricted and even court orders regarding visitation rights were not enforced.
“Signatures on vakalatnamas are blocked, while only selected people are allowed to meet him,” Raja alleged, adding that the PTI founder’s sisters were also not allowed to meet him despite his “grave health condition”.
The PTI leader further claimed that Bushra Bibi was facing “false cases”, including references linked to Toshakhana, which he claimed were based on the statements of government witnesses.
“We have filed petitions in the Supreme Court, but no hearing is taking place,” Raja said, adding that the party had exhausted all legal avenues and would now take its case to the people of Pakistan.
Referring to the broader political situation, Raja said the country needed stability, saying the economy had been destroyed and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was “soaked in blood”.
“Such restrictions did not exist even during the British era,” he said, while claiming that the justice system had been weakened and judges were transferred to other provinces as punishment.
