report in Daily Times, Dec 30. 2023 IHC calls on caretakers to maintain neutralityOn Friday, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) permitted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and lawyers to hold election meetings with party founder Imran Khan in Adiala jail in the run-up to polls scheduled for February 8. Justice Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb passed the order on a petition by Imran seeking permission for meetings with party leaders to formulate a strategy for the polls. The…
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report in Daily Times, Dec 28, 2023 *The Supreme Court (SC) dismissed on Wednesday the request to immediately hear the plea challenging the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case. However, there is an indication that the appeal filed by the PTI for a level-playing field in elections is expected to be scheduled for hearing tomorrow. The two matters were brought before acting Chief Justice Sardar Tariq Masood. Petitioner’s counsel…
report in Daily Times, Dec 24, 2023The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday expressed disapproval of the Supreme Court ruling in the cipher case giving relief to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan. The comments from the senior party leaders came following the ex-PTI chairman’s bail a day earlier. During a media talk in Lahore, senior PML-N leader Malik Ahmad Khan wondered how Imran Khan could be spared for his…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, December 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Special Court (Official Secrets Act) on Wednesday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case, sources told Dawn. Only four members of the press corps were allowed to cover Wednesday’s proceedings inside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail. Mr Khan’s legal team, however, disputed the impression, with Barrister Salman Safdar telling reporters after the trial that the court did not…
report in The News, Dec 8, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan has said party tickets will be given to those endorsed by the founder of PTI Imran Khan. Talking to the media outside the Adiala Jail on Thursday, Barrister Gohar said that there are 180 cases against Imran Khan and added the judiciary was also passing through a difficult phase along with PTI. He said he is confident that the judiciary will…
Report in Dawn, Nov 29th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) found itself embroiled in fresh controversy on Tuesday after it denied a statement by one of its own senior leaders, who had claimed that Imran Khan would not contest the upcoming intra-party polls for the slot of party chairman and that he had picked someone to contest in his stead. While the party did not directly name newly-installed Senior Vice President Sher Afzal Khan Marwat,…
by Abid Mehmood in Dawn, November 26th, 2023• PML-N supremo says Imran’s sponsors equally responsible for economic mess• Calls for political stability, long-term policy to rake in investmentsNAROWAL: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday touted the policy and economic achievements during the tenure of PML-N and said the decision to impose PTI chief Imran Khan on the country stopped the wheel of progress. Addressing a ceremony at the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry,…
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said any leader, be it Imran Khan, Asif Ali Zardari, or Nawaz Sharif, will have to seek legal remedy to their cases. In an interview with WE (World Echo) News on Thursday, a digital media platform, he dismissed the impression that the PMLN leader Nawaz Sharif’s decision to get back home was part of any deal with the interim government, APP reports. “The caretaker government has ‘no soft corner’…
report in The Express Tribune, Sept 15th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has turned down a request to order authorities not to arrest PTI chief Imran Khan in any pending case, stating that it does not want to set such a precedent. A division bench of the high court, led by Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and comprising Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, resumed hearing the PTI chairman’s petition against the cancellation of his pre-arrest bail…
report in The News, Sept 2, 2023Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has appointed an eminent human rights lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson KC, to represent him in the international courts in cases related to his “unlawful detention and human rights abuses”, it emerged on Friday. Khan’s decision to hire an international counsel — who has also previously represented Australian journalist Jullian Assange — comes at a time when he remains behind bars at the Attock District jail…