Arum hit out last weekend at the Filipino, a former eight-division champion, for missing a visit to a doctor he was scheduled to see about the shoulder injury he had suffered in the fight against Floyd Mayweather in May.
Pacquiao had surgery on May 7 to repair a tear to his right rotator cuff after losing to Mayweather in a welterweight title bout Las Vegas.
He cancelled a scheduled July 4 check-up with his surgeon in Los Angeles, prompting sharp criticism from the 83-year-old Arum, head of Top Rank promotions, who said "he's not acting very professionally".
Arum added: "When you have an operation like that you’ve got to get into rehab. You’ve got to get the doctor to look at it and to guide you as to the kind of rehab that you’ve got to do.
"He’s a grown man and he makes his own decisions but as far as I’m concerned he’s not an active fighter."
Pacquiao did not say if he was receiving medical advice or treatment from another doctor but said his situation was improving, adding: "I can now raise my right arm."
"Pacman" also did not respond to the remark that as far as Arum was concerned he is "not an active fighter”.
Just days after missing the July 4 appointment, Pacquiao travelled to Indonesia to film a television advertisement and visit a woman from the Philippines on death row.
Mary Jane Veloso was sentenced to death in Indonesia after being arrested in 2009 with 2.6 kg of heroin sewn into the lining of her suitcase.
"We're hoping to help save Mary Jane's life,”Pacquiao said, adding that she may have been a victim of human-trafficking. He visited the single mother of two children in Wirogunan prison on the main island of Java on July 10.
Arum insisted that Pacquiao's first priority should have been his appointment with the surgeon to decide on his rehabilitation programme.
Mayweather has been stripped of the WBO welterweight title that he won by beating Pacquiao. He lost the title after failing to meet a deadline to pay a $200 000 sanctioning fee for the fight on May 2.
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