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Final Up to date: March 16, 2023, 17:52 IST
On 13 March, Imran Khan’s legal professionals as soon as once more sought exemptions from his private appearances in decrease courts in Islamabad, on grounds of safety. (File)
The court docket has ordered the police to arrest Khan by March 18 and produce him earlier than it
In a setback to former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, a session court docket on Thursday rejected his request to droop non-bailable arrest warrants issued in reference to the Toshakhana case.
The court docket has ordered the police to arrest Khan by March 18 and produce him earlier than it.
“Now we have given an in depth resolution, what’s the warrant, how is it,” stated session Choose Zafar Iqbal.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Lahore Excessive Court docket ordered Pakistan Police to halt their bid to arrest Imran Khan from his residence at Zaman Park within the Toshakhana case until 10 am Thursday. The order got here a day after a conflict erupted between PTI staff and regulation enforcement companies outdoors the home of the cricketer-turned-politician.
On March 13, Extra District and Periods Choose Zafar Iqbal issued an arrest warrant for the 70-year-old Khan and instructed the police to current him earlier than the courts on March 18.
Imran Khan has attacked the Shehbaz Sharif authorities over makes an attempt to arrest him by saying that those that at the moment are in energy will come down at some point. Khan additionally stated that individuals have witnessed how dictators and pharaohs fell from energy.
“The people who find themselves in energy will come down at some point. Now we have witnessed how dictators and pharaoh fall. There is no such thing as a want to fret. Good instances are coming quickly,” Imran Khan advised his supporters in a video deal with.
WHAT IS THE CORRUPTION CASE AGAINST IMRAN KHAN?
Imran Khan has been within the crosshairs for purchasing items, together with an costly Graff wristwatch he had acquired because the premier at a reduced value from the state depository referred to as Toshakhana, and promoting them for revenue.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief has been within the crosshairs for purchasing items, together with an costly Graff wristwatch he had acquired because the premier at a reduced value from the state depository referred to as Toshakhana and promoting them for revenue.
As per a report by Indian Categorical, the Toshakhana controversy resurfaced in August 2022, when the coalition authorities, led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), filed a case towards Imran, alleging that he didn’t disclose data on items given to Toshakhana in addition to the proceeds from the “unlawful” sale of a number of the items.
Toshakhana is a division below the executive jurisdiction of the Cupboard Division that preserves presents and different costly objects acquired by public authorities, the report explains. It was established in 1974 and is obligatory for officers to declare items and different such supplies acquired to the Cupboard Division, based on its guidelines, it provides.
Nonetheless, when Imran got here to energy in 2018, he refused to disclose particulars of the quite a few items he acquired all through his tenure, claiming that doing so would jeopardise relations with different nations, the report says.
Following that, the previous prime minister issued a letter to the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) admitting to promoting a minimum of 4 such items but additionally claiming to have bought them from the federal government for a proportion of their worth. The Saudi crown prince had given him a Graff watch, in addition to Rolex watches, beautiful cufflinks, a uncommon pen, and a hoop.
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