NEW DELHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and ousted prime minister Imran Khan was summoned on Monday to appear in the district and sessions court of Islamabad on March 30 in Toshakhana corruption case while his third wife Bushra Bibi was summoned by the country’s anti-corruption watchdog, according to local media reports.
According to The Express Tribune Judge, Zafar Iqbal issued the order stating that the court will hear arguments on the maintainability of the complaint by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against the 70-year-old former prime minister.
This happened a day after he and over 1,000 of his PTI party leaders were booked in a terrorism case. Police registered cases against the ousted PM and over a dozen leaders of his party for vandalism and clashes outside the Islamabad Judicial Complex on Saturday when Khan arrived from Lahore to appear for a hearing in the Toshakhana corruption case.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Police arrested Khan’s nephew, along with a number of his supporters, on Monday for their alleged involvement in attacks on security personnel outside the court. On Saturday, Judge Iqbal had cancelled the arrest warrants against the former premier in the case, allowing him to leave the Islamabad Judicial Complex after marking his attendance due to the violence outside the judicial complex.
The hearing was adjourned till March 30 with the judge observing that the situation was not conducive for holding the hearing.
NAB notice to Bushra
On Monday, a team from National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrived at Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore and issued a notice to Bushra to appear before it on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
Earlier, the NAB summoned Khan and his wife to their Rawalpindi office on March 9 to question them on the Toshakhana case.
Pakistan Police arrests Khan’s nephew
Monday’s arrests, including of Khan’s nephew Hassan Niazi, bring the total number of his followers nabbed in Islamabad to 198 since Saturday.
The raft of arrests was the latest amid the mounting cases filed against the chief of the main opposition party. The number of cases against Khan has climbed up to 97.
His supporters are accused of throwing firebombs and hurling stones at the police officers who came to arrest Khan on Saturday as riot police wielded batons and fired tear gas. More than 50 officers were injured and a police checkpoint, several cars and motorcycles were torched.
Police also claimed to have recovered rifles, Kalashnikovs, bullets, marbles and petrol bombs from his house during a search operation after he left his mansion.
The Toshakhana case
Khan is accused of buying gifts, including an expensive Graff wristwatch, he had received as the premier at a discounted price from the state depository called Toshakhana, and selling them for profit.
He was disqualified by the ECP in October last year for not sharing details of the sales.
The election body later filed a complaint with the district court to punish him, under criminal laws, for selling the gifts. Khan has denied those charges.
According to The Express Tribune Judge, Zafar Iqbal issued the order stating that the court will hear arguments on the maintainability of the complaint by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against the 70-year-old former prime minister.
This happened a day after he and over 1,000 of his PTI party leaders were booked in a terrorism case. Police registered cases against the ousted PM and over a dozen leaders of his party for vandalism and clashes outside the Islamabad Judicial Complex on Saturday when Khan arrived from Lahore to appear for a hearing in the Toshakhana corruption case.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Police arrested Khan’s nephew, along with a number of his supporters, on Monday for their alleged involvement in attacks on security personnel outside the court. On Saturday, Judge Iqbal had cancelled the arrest warrants against the former premier in the case, allowing him to leave the Islamabad Judicial Complex after marking his attendance due to the violence outside the judicial complex.
The hearing was adjourned till March 30 with the judge observing that the situation was not conducive for holding the hearing.
NAB notice to Bushra
On Monday, a team from National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrived at Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore and issued a notice to Bushra to appear before it on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
Earlier, the NAB summoned Khan and his wife to their Rawalpindi office on March 9 to question them on the Toshakhana case.
Pakistan Police arrests Khan’s nephew
Monday’s arrests, including of Khan’s nephew Hassan Niazi, bring the total number of his followers nabbed in Islamabad to 198 since Saturday.
The raft of arrests was the latest amid the mounting cases filed against the chief of the main opposition party. The number of cases against Khan has climbed up to 97.
His supporters are accused of throwing firebombs and hurling stones at the police officers who came to arrest Khan on Saturday as riot police wielded batons and fired tear gas. More than 50 officers were injured and a police checkpoint, several cars and motorcycles were torched.
Police also claimed to have recovered rifles, Kalashnikovs, bullets, marbles and petrol bombs from his house during a search operation after he left his mansion.
The Toshakhana case
Khan is accused of buying gifts, including an expensive Graff wristwatch, he had received as the premier at a discounted price from the state depository called Toshakhana, and selling them for profit.
He was disqualified by the ECP in October last year for not sharing details of the sales.
The election body later filed a complaint with the district court to punish him, under criminal laws, for selling the gifts. Khan has denied those charges.