Court grants Imran’s judicial remand

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad has granted judicial remand of former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf founder Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case. Accountability Court Judge Muhammad Bashir heard the Toshakhana case against PTI founder Imran Khan in Adiala Jail on Saturday.

Imran Khan was presented in the court after completing his two-day physical remand. During the hearing, NAB prosecutor Irfan Bhola requested the court to extend Imran Khan’s physical remand for another three days. But the court rejected NAB’s request for physical remand and sent Imran Khan on a 14-day judicial remand.

Talking to the media outside Adiala Jail Rawalpindi, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Khan said that we do not want any delay in the election, but our request was there should be a free and transparent election. He said that no PTI lawyer appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday. He said that the PTI petitioned that the Returning Officers should be taken from the judiciary.

Gohar said that only the Supreme Court could tell how it reckoned that we wanted to derail the democracy. “We sit in the Supreme Court to save the democracy from getting derailed. God willing, we will save the democracy,” he added. Condemning Imran Khan’s jail trial, he said that attempts are being made to take physical remand of the PTI founder through bogus cases. “This is a political victimization, there cannot be a jail trial, Such trials are a violation of basic human rights,” he added.