Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday evening challenged his non-bailable arrest warrants in the Toshakhana gifts case in the Islamabad High Court. However, the court refused to hear the application today and fixed it for a hearing tomorrow.
The bail application was filed with the court as heavy contingents of police, Rangers, and anti-riot force reached outside Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence to arrest Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case.
Imran Khan’s legal team reached the court to file an application for warrant suspension. His lawyer Intizar Hussain Panjotha prepared a bail petition.
The IHC registrar objected to the absence of the PTI chief’s biometric verification on the bail application.
IHC fixes Imran Khan’s bail for hearing tomorrow
The lawyers had sought a hearing of the plea today. The court accepted the application but refused to hear it today and fixed it for tomorrow, along with the objections to it.
PTI leader Asad Qaiser was also present in the court.
Talking to the media, he said Imran Khan is a former prime minister, but it seemed a terrorist had been besieged.
He warned that they would call a strike in the entire country, and if anyone thought the party and its activists would remain silent, they were misunderstood.
The former speaker also issued threats to police officers.
Speaking to the media outside the high court, PTI leader Shibli Faraz said the court summoned Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case on March 18.
“I don’t understand why the police want to take him four days earlier,” he wondered.
He accused the police of resorting to violence at Zaman Park.
“I think the police went there illegally and with malice,” Shibli Faraz said.
He claimed the address mentioned on the arrest warrant was Bani Gala’s, but the police reached Lahore.
He alleged that a failed assassination attempt was made on Imran Khan.
