ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: An accountability court docket on Friday remanded former premier and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to NAB custody for 4 days in Al Qadir Trust case, whereas additionally extending the pre-arrest interim bail of his spouse, Bushra Bibi, in the identical case, in addition to the Toshakhana case, until Nov 21.
At the outset, when Judge Mohammad Bashir resumed listening to on the bail petitions of Bushra Bibi in the Federal Judicial Complex, he was informed that the petitioner and her lawyer Sardar Latif Khan Khosa have been each in Adiala Jail for a gathering with the ex-premier.
Since the choose was additionally scheduled to take up Mr Khan’s remand utility in the court docket inside the jail, he determined to conduct listening to on Bushra Bibi’s bail petition there and left for Adiala Jail.
At the listening to, NAB’s deputy prosecutor basic Sardar Muzaffar Khan Abbasi submitted the appliance looking for 10-day bodily remand of the PTI chairman. However, the choose solely granted bodily remand for 4 days.
While speaking to reporters outdoors Adiala Jail after assembly her brother Imran Khan, Aleema Khan claimed the previous premier was contemplating submitting a lawsuit in the United States towards diplomat Donald Lu, who he accused of toppling his authorities, if he didn’t get justice from courts in Pakistan.
She stated he had discovered it acceptable to share Donald Lu’s message with public. This was not the time to repeat what was executed to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, she added.
She stated her brother was in good well being and was glad with the meals supplied to him in the jail. She stated he knowledgeable her that he had routine in jail and acquired the chance to train. He was additionally reciting the Holy Quran and studying books, she stated, including that she introduced extra books for him.
She stated the Islamabad High Court had issued a keep order in the cipher case and people clauses have been added in the case that might outcome in a loss of life sentence or life imprisonment. “What crime has the ex-PM committed for which he was booked in such offences?” she questioned.
On the opposite hand, a division bench of the Islamabad High Court dismissed an utility looking for restoration of Mr Khan’s pre-arrest bail plea in corruption case, observing that it grew to become infructuous when Mr Khan is already in NAB custody.
The bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, nonetheless, prompt the counsel for the petitioner to method the competent court docket for his launch on submit-arrest bail.
Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2023