Jailed Imran Khan to be hospitalised only on doctors' advice: PM aide

Ikhtiar Wali Khan, Coordinator to the Prime Minister on Information for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Affairs, said on Friday that the PTI founder would be shifted to a hospital if doctors recommended it, and that the government would not move him in response to demands from his party.

Speaking to a private television channel, Wali said no compromise would be made on Imran Khan's health. The jailed PTI founder, he said, would not be transferred to a hospital merely on the basis of demands and wishes.

He said the government was concerned about Imran Khan's health and that the best possible medical facilities were being provided to him. Those facilities, he said, did not require recommendations or unnecessary statements from his party.

Wali also urged Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman to handle the situation peacefully and to avoid making statements that could go against the country's interests. Neither report said which statements by Fazlur Rehman he was responding to, or what he meant by the situation.

On issues concerning the provinces, Wali said he had focused on the viewpoint of all political parties. The reports did not name the parties or the provinces he discussed.

Neither report said when Imran Khan was last examined by doctors, whether any of them had recommended hospital treatment, or which hospital he would be taken to if one did. Both outlets placed the remarks on Friday and datelined them from Islamabad.