Imran Khan indicted; sent to probe agency custody in separate case

Islamabad: When an accountability court sent former Pakistan Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) custody for eight days, a sessions court indicted him in the Toshakhana case separately on Wednesday. Both the hearings were held at Islamabad Police Lines, Dawn reported.

After NAB sought 14-day remand of the leader on the Al-Qadir Trust case, the court granted eight days.

Counsel for Imran contented against NAB’s demand, saying that the case did not fall under NAB’s ambit and submitted that the agency did not share the inquiry report too.

When NAB stated that they had shown Imran the arrest warrant at the time of his arrest, he told the court that that was not true. The agency showed him the same only when he was taken to the probe agency’s office instead of arrested.

In the Toshakhana case, the Election Commission of Pakistan sought proceedings against Imran under criminal law, Dawn reports. The body approached the court on the matter on a reference filed by legislators from the ruling coalition in 2022. This reference accuses Imran of concealing the gifts he retained from Toshakhaana as well as the proceeds from their sales during his term as PM.

Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday from outside the Islamabad High Court under a NAB warrant, accusing him of corruption and related practices under Section 9(a) of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999. It happened following the military rejecting his accusations against DG-C Maj Gen Faisal Naseer.