Advocate Gohar Ali Khan appeared before the court on behalf of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. Meanwhile, Amjad Parvez represented the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
The investigating officer requested the court to give more time to present investigation report (challan) against the suspects. Judge Abher Gul Khan agreed to the request and sent the suspects back to judicial lockup until July 20.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan approached the Supreme Court to challenge the Islamabad High Court's July 4 remand to a trial court for the re-examination of the maintainability of the Toshakhana case within a week.
The case was heard by a five-member commission presided over by the Chief Election Commissioner and the action was prompted by Fawad's absence from the hearing related to the ECP contempt case.
The regional police officers in Pakistan's Punjab province have been instructed to nominate former Prime Minister Imran Khan in all the cases lodged across the province in connection with the May 9 violence
A sessions court in Pakistan on Thursday accepted former Prime Minister Imran Khan's plea for personal exemption from the Toshakhana case hearing, reported Dawn.
Accusing his 'political opponents' of being "out to kill him", Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that he would stay in Pakistan and contest all court cases despite his well-wishers abroad urging him to leave the country, Dawn reported.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chief Imran Khan blamed the military for the alleged abduction of journalists during his regime.
When the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was in power under former prime minister Imran Khan, 29 civilians were tried, found guilty, and sentenced in military courts. Inamur Rahim has petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) to overturn those decisions.
The plea of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman will be taken up by a two-judge SC bench comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Ayesha A Malik, after the former prime minister's one-page application seeking early fixing of the matter.
IHC's Chief Justice Amir Farooq announced the petition against the verdict of a trial court that had declared the criminal case, filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), is inadmissible.