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[Dr. Arif Alvi @ArifAlvi]

Imran Khan's medical reports are alarming. I have gone through them with several specialists, and I am writing this in plain language so every Pakistani can understand exactly what is happening.

In order of priority, this is what worries me most: his anxiety and stress levels, his palpitations, and his high blood pressure. Sleeplessness is not mentioned in the report, but looking at the medications, it is almost certainly there too.

I have known Imran Khan for more than 35 years. Stress was never his weakness. That it is now at peak levels tells you everything about what three years of imprisonment and total isolation have done to him.

The causes are not hard to understand: the state of the country, his colleagues in jail, those sentenced, the killed, and their grieving families. His own isolation, no newspapers, no books, no knowledge of what is happening outside. And yes, his anxiety over Bushra Bibi, his sisters, his workers and his party.

Look at the medications, as there is no diagnosis. He is on Citanil and Lexotanil, three times a day. That is not sleeplessness being treated. That is daytime anxiety being treated. Read that twice.

His heart rate is 54 bpm. Doctors will call that "normal." It is not normal for him. His resting heart rate has been in the low 40s his whole adult life, the mark of a lifelong elite athlete. A jump to 54 is a real shift.

He has reported heart palpitations. That is not something to note and move on from. It needs a 24-hour Holter monitor immediately, to catch the frequency and get him on the right medication. Even an Apple Watch linked to an Apple ID outside Pakistan (as that function is disabled in Pakistan) can flag Atrial Fibrillation and palpitations in real time.

He is on three separate BP medications now. That requires proper daily AM/PM monitoring to titrate correctly, not once-a-week guesswork. He is also on a cholesterol-lowering drug. Raised cholesterol at his age is both genetic and stress-driven, and needs diet, exercise, and medication working together, as does his blood pressure. Less salt. More movement. Real monitoring.

And the following tests that must happen now, without further delay:
1) A Stress Test
2) An Echocardiogram
3) Cardiac MRI
4) Cardiac Artery Calcium (CAC) scan, because of raised cholesterol to check for calcified deposits that block arteries and lead directly to heart attacks or the need for stents.
5) Cardiac CT Angiogram and other tests if indicated.

I am deeply worried. Isolation is taking a physical toll on his body. If this is not addressed immediately, the damage may become irreversible with more complications to follow.

@ImranKhanPTI definitely needs to be moved to a hospital environment now, under an independent panel of doctors. Neither his family nor the people of Pakistan trust government-appointed doctors alone. We have already seen reports manipulated before, numbers exaggerated or suppressed, platelets among them.

The next three months will decide whether his condition is reversed or becomes permanent.

We all are alarmed.

The country needs him more than ever before. May Allah keep him healthy. Ameen. 🤲

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Pakistan is not, and never has been, neutral. Our official policy does not recognize a state of Israel. Our destiny is to free Palestine, from the river to the sea. Pakistan will help accomplish it someday soon, inshAllah!

[Amir Taheri @AmirTaheri4]

MEMO TO PRESIDENT #TRUMP
Roman Emperor Augustus on hIs deathbed had this advice for his successor Tiberius:
"Whatever you do, don't attack #Persia!"
Good advice even after more than 2000 years.

[crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger]

Trump: do as I say, or I will bomb you back to the stone ages

Iran: best I can do is this 10 point plan where you give us everything we want

Trump: deal!

FoxNews: Trump is a master negotiator

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

To comply with the ceasefire, any American tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz, must pay $2 million in Yuan to Iran. The US is experiencing the mother of all humiliations in the eyes of the world.

[Tumi Sole @tumisole]

Iran made Israel ask for an urgent United Nations Security Council intervention

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Iran is fighting for something bigger than itself.

The idea that no nation should need permission to exist.

The idea that sovereignty is not a privilege granted by Washington.

The idea that the world does not belong to one empire.

That idea is why the bombs fall.

And why, sooner or later, they will fail.

[Maleeha Lodhi @LodhiMaleeha]

Time for Pakistan to leave the Board of Peace which it should not have joined in the first place, set up and headed by a man who has launched attacks against 7 countries and whose admin is complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Everyone in Israel and the Gulf currently complaining about Iran’s retaliation: this is a fraction of what Israel has done to Gaza, in just two days. Israelis have been doing this for 877 days, they dropped 200,000 tonnes of bombs on trapped civilians while starving them.

[dr. mohammed hamad - Gaza @Medo198518]

America killed Bin Laden, what did it offer the people of Afghanistan afterward?

America killed Saddam Hussein, what did it offer the people of Iraq afterward?

America killed Yasser Arafat, what did it offer the people of Palestine afterward?

America killed Muammar Gaddafi, what did it offer the people of Libya afterward?

America killed Ali Abdullah Saleh, what did it offer the people of Yemen afterward?

America overthrew Bashar al-Assad, what did it offer the people of Syria afterward?
America arrested Nicolás Maduro, what did it offer the people of Venezuela?
America cannot be trusted; it is merely a colonial power exploiting peoples and resources.

[Rodium-A @RodiumInsights]

“بغداد سمیت متعدد ممالک میں امریکی قونصلیٹ کے گرد عوام نے احتجاج ریکارڈ کروائے لیکن 8 شہادتیں صرف پاکستان میں ہوئیں۔”
کیونکہ پاکستان میں ذہینی مریضوں کی حکومت ہے جنکے منہ کو عوام کا خون لگا ہوا ہے جب پی نہ لیں پیاس نہیں بجھتی ۔

[Bassem Youssef Commentary @bassem_youssef9]

Trump the president of board of peace, kidnapped a president last month and killed a leader this month.

[志位和夫 @shiikazuo]

Under no circumstances does U.S. President Trump possess the right to assassinate the supreme leader of an independent sovereign state. This egregious violation of international law is utterly shocking. We strongly condemn it.

[Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson]

personally i think it's bad to live in a world where one country can just randomly murder the leader of another country based on false pretexts and with no legal authority of any kind and get away with it

[Fiza @fizakkhann]

If the Epstein files have taught us one thing, it is that this war is above all, a spiritual war. We can laugh at conspiracy theorists all we want but the fact that zionists specifically killed/sacrificed children on the day of a rare astrological alignment cannot be overlooked

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

The war mongering pedophiles that brought you genocide in Gaza and the most scandalous files of abuse in history are now embroiling the world in a war to distract you in the name of “preserving freedom.”

Bombing a girls elementary school and killing over 30 young children is scratching the surface for these monsters. Truly sickening.

[Iman @imanwithik]

if Imran Khan hadn’t drawn the line with ‘Absolutely Not’ to U.S. military bases, Pakistan could be in the headlines like Qatar, UAE, or Bahrain right now. Instead, we’re breathing easy. Thank the unbowed man in Adiala who paid the price so we could stay out of this war.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[a @prickytwatling]

when you realize that you are safe today because this alpha male said ‘Absolutely not’ once