Lahore: The Lahore High Court (LHC) will hear on Tuesday the bail plea of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in connection with terrorism cases lodged against him. His arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case was followed by large-scale violence by his supporters. Khan was accompanied by his wife Bushra Bibi, who was granted anticipatory bail till May 23 by the High Court in the Al-Qadir Trust case. The LHC granted anticipatory bail to Bushra Bibi till May 23 in the Al-Qadir Trust case, a court official said.
The court, however, fixed for Tuesday the hearing on the bail plea of Khan in the terrorism cases registered against him following the May 9 violence. The LHC Registrar’s Office has objected to the non-enclosure of attested copies of the orders of the Supreme Court and the Islamabad High Court. Justice Safdar Salim Shahid fixed May 16 for hearing on Khan’s plea. Earlier, Khan’s lawyer had assured to make provision for the orders of the court.
Bushra appeared before the Lahore High Court for the first time for anticipatory bail in the Bibi Al-Qadir Trust case. Khan and Bushra Bibi reached the LHC amid tight security and were not accompanied by party workers. He was covered with a white sheet before boarding the bomb- and bulletproof vehicle, so that Bushra Bibi could perform her ‘purda’. While Khan has more than 100 cases against him, Bushra is facing trial in two cases – the Toshakhana and the Al Qadir Trust case. are enrolled in
Khan said in a tweet on Monday that they (the government and the military establishment) had conspired to arrest his wife to humiliate him. He claimed that the government intended to keep him in jail for 10 years in the sedition case. There are reports that Khan may be booked under the Army Act for inciting attacks on military installations. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief was granted interim bail in six cases registered for setting fire to the house of a Corps Commander Lahore and other incidents of violence following his arrest last week.
Despite being granted bail on Friday, Khan had returned to his home in Lahore on Saturday after locking himself inside the Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises for hours fearing re-arrest. The IHC granted bail to 70-year-old Khan while staying his arrest in all cases registered against him after May 9 and asked him to approach the Lahore High Court on May 15 for further relief. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had arrested the cricketer-turned-politician Khan on May 9 in the Al-Qadir Trust case. The IHC granted him anticipatory bail for two weeks.
The Supreme Court declared Khan’s arrest from the Islamabad High Court premises illegal and referred the case to the IHC. The Punjab Police filed five other FIRs on May 10 for inciting supporters to attack and damage government buildings and military installations, besides attacking Khan and hundreds of his party workers and setting fire to the ‘Corps Commander’s House’ in Lahore. were registered. For the first time in Pakistan’s history, protesters stormed the Army Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and set fire to the Corps Commander’s house in Lahore.
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