Imran Khan

This crackdown - which has thrown the PTI into a deep existential crisis with dozens of key party leaders jumping ship every day - was launched after the party leaders and workers allegedly vandalised and set afire state and army properties in the wake of Khan's arrest on May 9, The Express Tribune reported.

The assassination attempt on him last November was "strongly condemned" by the Joe Biden administration, as it should have been, but his subsequent troubles that have followed in a steady stream have elicited little or no concern about him personally, as a former Prime Minister or a politician.

However, with Imran Khan and his government falling apart after the establishment shut the door on him, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief is now getting a taste of one of the most bitter outbursts of his counter-assault on the same military might, turning his love affairs into arch rivalry with the country's most powerful institution.

This claim was certainly not made for the first time by Maryam and her party leaders, but this time around, keeping in view the mass exodus (voluntary or otherwise) by the senior PTI leadership in the aftermath of May 9 riots, odds were truly stacked against Imran as he seems to be fighting a losing battle, The Express Tribune.

Khan's estranged ally Jahangir Khan Tareen is emerging as the rising star as a new political dispensation begins to take shape. Geo News reported on Friday citing its sources that Tareen is set to announce the formation of a new national-level "political party". Geo News reported citing sources on Friday.

The medical board, according to Patel, found Imran Khan to be a "habitual user of illegal substances" as evidence of the presence of alcohol and cocaine in his urine samples was found, the report said. Qadir also said the board has come to the conclusion that the PTI chief was under severe psychological pressure.

On Thursday, the names of over 600 PTI leaders, including Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi, were added to the no-fly list for their involvement in the May 9 violence, Geo News reported citing sources.

Addressing a press conference, Faisal Karim Kundi, an office-bearer of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), said: "I am going to give you guys some news that I have received through my sources: Imran Khan will soon apply for political asylum in America," The News reported.

Those included in the no-fly list and barred from travelling abroad include Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi PTI leaders Murad Saeed, Maleeka Bukhari, Fawad Chaudhry and Hammad Azhar, Samaa TV reported. PTI's Qasim Suri, Asad Qaiser, Dr. Yasmin Rashid and Mian Aslam are also included in the no-fly list, Samaa TV reported.

Khan, through his lawyer Hamid Khan, has requested the top court to probe the government's decision to call "in the aid of the armed forces in the federal capital territory, Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) in the purported exercise of powers under Article 245 of the Constitution", The Express Tribune reported.