The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Ali Muhammad Khan was on Wednesday sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand by a local court in Mardan in a corruption case, according to Khaama Press.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s former provincial minister from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr Amjad, and Shahid Ali Khan, the city's mayor, were arrested in Swat, ARY News reported on Wednesday.
The Lahore police had lodged a case against the PTI leader Yasmin Rashid for allegedly setting vehicles on fire on May 9 when PTI chairman Imran Khan was arrested from the premises of Islamabad High Court (IHC).
The Pakistan Supreme Court bench which was hearing the petitions filed against the trial of civilians in military courts got dissolved for the second time on Monday after the federal government raised objections to the inclusion of Justice Mansoor Ali Shah on the seven-member bench.
Pakistan's Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, on Monday, hoped that no one would be trialled in the military court, in connection with May 9, until the case's final outcome pending before the Supreme Court.
He also said that three army officers, including a lieutenant general, were sacked from their jobs as a part of the military's "self-accountability process" into the events.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan will "quickly" conclude the pleas against the prosecution of civilians in military courts, according to Pakistan's Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, who declined to order a suspension of the proceedings on Thursday, Geo News reported.
The PTI chief was granted protective bail in three cases related to the May 9 vandalism and the murder of senior Supreme Court lawyer Abdul Razzaq Shar in Quetta, Dawn reported.
"The thing is, like two civilized countries. We should solve our issues through dialogue. And if we can't solve them through dialogue, we just keep talking. But war is never an option," the PTI chief said during an interview with Atlantic Council's Wajahat S. Khan.
Amid Pakistan's deteriorating political and economic situation, experts spoke about the various factors and forces at play and expressed serious doubts about the country being able to see free and fair general elections.
An Islamabad district and sessions court on Tuesday dismissed the bail petitions of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar and Asad Qaisern in connection with two separate cases related to May 9 violence, Dawn reported on Tuesday.