Attaullah Tarar, has said that more big fishes will be caught as the investigation will expand after the arrest of former director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General (retd) Faiz Hamid.
Ayub's comments come at a time when the Imran Khan-founded party has been facing challenges since May 9, 2023, the day former premier Imran Khan got arrested, when mobs attacked state installations, including the Corps Commander House in Lahore.
Convoys of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and workers, on the call of party founder Imran Khan, have departed from Karachi to hold the rally in Swabi on August 5.
The petition stated that Bushra Bibi and Imran Khan had been granted bail in the Toshakhana case. However, the couple was re-arrested in a new case with malicious intent.
A two-member bench, which includes Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh and Justice Anwar-ul-Haq Pannu, reserved the verdict on the petitions challenging Imran Khan's physical remand.
Section 144 has been imposed in Pakistan's Punjab and Islamabad amid the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) plans to hold protests across the nation on Friday.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had sought a 14-day remand for Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi. However, the court rejected the request and asked the anti-graft body to present the suspects on July 29.
The TTAP leadership passed a unanimous resolution seeking immediate release of political prisoners and demanded an empowered judicial commission to investigate firing on peaceful marchers in Bannu.
"Even PML-N leaders were surprised by the announcement of banning the PTI," he said, adding that the country's politics cannot move forward without the PTI founder.