ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s personal physician has given a positive assessment of his health after all his reports turned out to be “okay,” Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said on Monday.
Dr. Asim Yousaf, the ex-premier’s personal physician, along with a team of doctors from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) was allowed to examine Khan’s health, following weeks of claims made by the PTI regarding “mistreatment” being meted out to the ex-premier, who has been in jail since August last year.
The party claims also prompted Khan’s ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith, to express concerns about his condition. Consequently, a team of doctors was allowed to visit Khan in jail who found him in good health.
“The personal physician of Imran Khan, Dr. Asim Yousaf was allowed in, to examine the former PM, along with another team of doctors from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hospital Islamabad, with an okay report on his physical health,” the PTI said in a statement.
The former premier had petitioned the Islamabad High Court in October to grant permission for regular medical examination by his personal physicians.
Khan, who served as prime minister from 2018 to 2022, has been entangled in more than 200 legal cases since he was ousted, in what he says is a campaign to keep him from returning to power. Pakistani authorities deny the allegation.
In April, the former cricket star and his wife had their 14-year prison sentences for graft suspended by a high court.
Khan then had a 10-year sentence for treason overturned last month but remains in Adiala jail, south of the capital Islamabad, over an illegal marriage conviction.
He had been cleared for release before that trio of sentences in the days running up to Pakistan’s February 8 general elections.
Personal physician of Pakistan’s Imran Khan gives ‘okay’ report after examination allowed — party
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Personal physician of Pakistan’s Imran Khan gives ‘okay’ report after examination allowed — party
- Dr. Asim Yousaf examines ex-prime minister’s health with a team of doctors from PIMS Hospital
- Khan has been in jail since August last year and faces more than 200 legal cases since his ouster
Pakistan offloads 23 passengers bound for Malaysia in illegal immigration crackdown
- Authorities say passengers admitted being in contact with agents who were helping them seek illegal employment on a visit visa
- Pakistan arrested over 1,700 smugglers, offloaded 66,154 passengers and recorded a 47 percent fall in illegal migration to Europe in 2025
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities offloaded 23 passengers traveling from Karachi to Malaysia to seek employment on visit visas, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said on Friday, as the country ramps up its crackdown on illegal immigration.
The development is part of Pakistan’s continuing effort to curb illegal immigration and human smuggling. Pakistan reported a 47 percent drop in illegal immigration to Europe this year, with more than 1,700 human smugglers arrested.
Authorities said this week 66,154 passengers were offloaded from Pakistani airports in 2025 so far compared to last year’s figure of 35,000.
“The passengers were traveling to Malaysia on flight number D7-109,” an FIA statement said on Friday.
“The passengers were planning to go into hiding after reaching Malaysia,” it continued, adding they “admitted that they were traveling to Malaysia under the cover of visit visas to seek employment.”
The statement said the passengers, hailing from Peshawar, Lower Dir, Mardan, Swat, Bajaur and Bannu in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as well as Gujrat in Punjab and Karachi in Sindh, were in contact with agents who were helping them seek illegal employment in Malaysia.
The FIA said the passengers were carrying insufficient funds and failed to show the amount required to cover visit visa expenses.
It added they had not submitted the mandatory bank statements needed to obtain Malaysian visit visas.
All the arrested passengers have been handed over to the FIA Anti-Human Trafficking circle in Karachi for further verification and legal action.
Pakistan intensified action against illegal migration in 2023 after hundreds of people, including its own nationals, lost their lives while trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach European shores in an overcrowded vessel that sank off the Greek coast.
Earlier this week, the FIA offloaded three passengers at Karachi airport who were attempting to travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on forged documents.
In September, the FIA released a list of more than 100 of the country’s “most wanted” human smugglers as part of its ongoing nationwide operation, identifying major hubs of trafficking activity across Punjab and Islamabad.
Earlier in December, Pakistan’s interior ministry announced to roll out an AI-based immigration screening system in Islamabad from January next year to detect forged travel documents and prevent illegal departures.
