Senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi rushed to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) hospital early Saturday morning after complaining of chest pain
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 convention painted a bleak picture of the ongoing crisis in Pakistan's agricultural heartland, with climate change severely disrupting crop cycles and threatening the livelihoods of many farmers.
In a significant legal development, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Saturday dismissed the bail applications of 16 leaders and workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in connection with protest-related cases registered in 2023, Dawn reported.
He said, "Imran Khan is ready for a dialogue not because he wants power or the prime minister's chair, but because he dreams of building a proud, independent nation."
Opposition Leader in the National Assembly, Omar Ayub, Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Ahmed Khan Bhachar, SIC chief Sahibzada Hamid Raza, and Imran Khan's three sisters -- Aleema Khan, Uzma Khan and Noreen Khan -- along with their cousin Qasim Khan, were among those arrested on Thursda
He dismissed recent claims made by PTI Senator Azam Swati, who had suggested that Khan had allowed him to hold back-channel talks to stabilise the political situation of Pakistan.