Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Public and Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah advised Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party founder Imran Khan to accept Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's offer of a meeting for negotiations and sit with the government to amend the election laws.
Dozens of PTI workers and assembly members held a protest to demand the release of Imran Khan. PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, along with Sahibzada Hamid Raza, Barrister Ali Zafar, Latif Khosa, Shibli Faraz, Aliya Hamza, and others, demanded an end to what he termed Imran Khan's unjus
He mentioned that the option of initiating a no-confidence motion is constitutionally available to all political parties. However, he noted that the Imran Khan-founded party has not considered using it at this time.
During the hearing, a prosecutor said that an anti-terrorism court had permitted conducting photogrammetric and polygraph tests of Khan in Rawalpindi's Adiala jail in the May 9 cases and requested the bench defer the bail proceedings.
During the hearing, 29 PTI workers appeared before the court while four others registered applications requesting exemption from attendance. The court adjourned the hearing till July 17, when the accused are expected to be formally indicted.
Following heightened tensions between India and Pakistan over a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, the accounts of Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and former Prime Minister Imran Khan, founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), have been suspended in India.
The case is related to the attack during the long march held by PTI in Wazirabad on November 3, 2022, when a man shot and wounded Imran Khan and killed one of his supporters.
PTI leaders and Imran Khan's sisters have filed contempt petitions against Adiala jail authorities, accusing them of violating Islamabad High Court orders by denying access for scheduled legal and family meetings with the former prime minister.