Suspension of sentences: IHC to hear PTI founder, Bushra’s pleas next week, says Gohar

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has said the acting chief justice of Islamabad High Court on Wednesday assured the PTI that the hearing of pleas for the suspension of sentences of the party founder and his spouse Bushra Bibi in the 190 million pounds case will be held next week.

He was talking to the media after meeting the acting chief justice along with PTI Parliamentary Leader in Senate Ali Zafar and Latif Khosa. During the meeting, he explained, they requested early hearing, as the conviction was made in January and since then the hearing of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi’s petition could not be conducted. Gohar said his party senators, MNAs and members of provincial assemblies marched to the Islamabad High Court from the Parliament House in connection with the release of their party founder and early hearing of his petition as well as of his spouse. Leaders and lawmakers belonging to the opposition parties alliance including Shibli Faraz, SIC head Sahibzada Hamid Raza, Barrister Ali Zafar, Latif Khosa, Shibli Faraz, Aliya Hamza, Barrister Umair Niazi and others reached the Islamabad High Court besides senior politician Mahmood Khan Achakzai, Asad Qaiser, and sisters of Imran Khan.

Talking to media outside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Imran’s sister Aleema Khan said her brother commented on the promotion of army chief as field marshal by saying that he should have become a monarch. She said her brother also vehemently condemned drone attacks in Pakistan and said this would only increase the menace of terrorism instead of helping to combat it.

“If the establishment wants to talk to me, it should, as unity is imperative in the face of Indian threat and to fix the economy and combat terrorism,” she quoted Imran as saying to her.