Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has been asked to appear before the court in person on April 11 at 8:30 am (local time), according to the summons.
PTI leader Murad Saeed said that lawmakers, including former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, have written to the UN calling for an independent investigation into Arshad Sharif's killing.
According to reports cited by ARY News on Sunday, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has chosen to reject the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill 2023, which seeks to limit the chief justice of Pakistan's (CJP) suo motu powers of office.
Khan while addressing PTI workers and supporters after one year of the regime change, said that PTI came into power during a difficult time and the economy was stabilised in the last year of the PTI government.
In a case involving terrorism and sedition, a local court in Islamabad allowed on Sunday the one-day physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Amin Gandapur and ordered police to present him in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) the following day, Geo News reported.
The development comes after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the concerned authorities not to pursue the review petition moved against Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
The bill is aimed at curtailing the powers of the chief justice -- including the suo motu and the formation of benches. The PTI has strongly condemned the move to pass the legislation and said it is an "attack on the judiciary".
The Lahore High Court on Saturday fixed a hearing for Imran Khan's petition against the Election Commission of Pakistan's move to remove him as the PTI chairman in the Toshakhana case, Dawn reported. A five-member larger bench headed by Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan will hear the plea on April