Overview
- PTI and allied parties say their non-negotiable demand is that incarcerated ex-premier Imran Khan be shifted to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad with full access for his personal doctors and family.
- Opposition leaders have warned they will stage protests inside and outside Parliament and may boycott or try to disrupt the government’s budget session if the transfer is not granted.
- National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq rejected the opposition’s reading of production orders, saying those orders apply only to sitting members and that repeated attempts at dialogue have been made.
- PTI has framed the demand as a rights and court-order issue and used the budget moment to attack the government’s economic record, calling the proposed budget non-public-friendly and criticising rising borrowing and inflation.
- The standoff has pulled in the judiciary and prison authorities and threatens to delay budget proceedings, raise political tensions on the streets and in Parliament, and leave urgent medical and legal questions unresolved for Khan and his family.