RAWALPINDI: The founder of Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf Imran Khan will appear in Supreme Court via video link today, Adiala jail officials has apprised the Imran khan appearance through video link.
As per detail, upon the order of the supreme Court, arrangements have been completed at the Adiala Jail for the appearance of Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf founder Imran Khan via video link in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) amendments case today.
The sources said the Adiala jail administration had apprised the PTI founder about his appearance through video link. The staff of the top court and jail authorities did a trial run of the video link before Khan’s appearance.
The founder of PTI would appear before the SC at 11:30am today via video link in the NAB amendments case.
A day ago, his lawyers Khawaja Haris and Intezar Panjutha held a short meeting with Khan in jail following the SC’s order to the federal and Punjab governments to make arrangements for a video link facility for the incarcerated politico.
“The PTI founder can present his arguments in the upcoming hearing via video link if he wishes to do so arrangements should be made for the presentation of arguments via video link,” Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa had said Tuesday.
He remarked this during hearing of the federal government’s intra-court appeal against the SC’s 2023 verdict that annulled some of the NAB amendments.
The five-member SC larger bench, headed by CJP Isa, included Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi.
The same bench will hear the NAB case on May 16. Khan, incarcerated in Adiala jail, wanted to appear in the top court in person to present his arguments. However, the court allowed him to defend himself via video link.
The ex-premier has been out of sight since August 2023 after he was nabbed following a conviction in the Toshakhana case.
After being arrested, the PTI founder was found guilty in several cases, including cypher and unlawful marriage, he remained imprisoned even though he had obtained bail in some of the cases.
