عمران خان کے قریبی ساتھی زلفی بخاری نے روئٹرز کو دیے گئے انٹرویو میں کہا ہے کہ رہائی کی صورت میں عمران خان آرمی چیف فیلڈ مارشل عاصم منیر سے محاذ آرائی نہیں کریں گے۔
یہ محض لہجے میں نرمی نہیں، بلکہ پی ٹی آئی کے دو سالہ بیانیے “ڈٹ کر کھڑا ہے کپتان” کی خاموش تدفین دکھائی دیتی ہے۔
Imran Khan’s sister says he is fit, with normal blood pressure and improved eyesight. Official records document specialist treatment and family access. Yet the international narrative remains one of isolation and medical crisis. The record versus the rhetoric.
Zulfikar Bukhari's remarks to Reuters, describing a freed Imran Khan as unwilling to confront army chief Asim Munir, don't just shift PTI's tone. Coming from one of Khan's closest aides, they quietly kill the "dut kar khara hai kaptaan" promise that has held the party's base together for two years.
The Supreme Court has ordered the transfer of Imran Khan from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital for medical assessment and treatment, while directing that his health condition should not be used for political activity or media campaigning.
Countries do not enter mutual defence commitments with partners whose reliability they doubt, because the cost of misjudging that is measured in soldiers. Riyadh and Ankara have decided Pakistan is a state whose word will hold when it is expensive to hold it.