Khan’s legal professionals Ali Bukhari, Qaiser Imam, and Gohar Ali Khan appeared earlier than the district and periods courtroom, the place Bukhari contended that his consumer has at all times adopted courtroom orders.

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Imam argued that the Islamabad police couldn’t arrest 70-year-old Khan if he was keen to look earlier than the courtroom on March 7.

At this, the choose remarked that the PTI chief may have approached the Islamabad Excessive Court docket to droop the warrant.

Nonetheless, Imam instructed the choose that they needed the periods courtroom to droop the warrant whereas Bukhari added that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief was at his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.

“Imran Khan needs to know a manner he can seem in courtroom,” stated Bukhari.

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Urging the courtroom to droop the warrant, Imam argued that a personal criticism was registered in opposition to the PTI chief underneath the Election Act 2017 and normally arrest warrants weren’t issued on a personal criticism.

The choose, remarking that the PTI chief’s lawyer had knowledgeable him that their consumer wouldn’t seem in courtroom, reserved the decision on the petition.

On February 28, Extra Classes Choose Zafar Iqbal issued a non-bailable arrest warrant in opposition to the cricketer-turned-politician for constantly failing to look earlier than the courtroom within the Toshakhana case.

Khan has been within the crosshairs for purchasing presents, together with an costly Graff wristwatch he had acquired because the premier at a reduced value from the state depository known as Toshakhana, and promoting them for revenue.

In his property declarations, he’s accused of concealing particulars of the presents he retained from the Toshakhana – a repository the place presents handed to authorities officers from international officers are stored.

Officers are legally allowed to retain presents supplied they pay a pre-assessed quantity, sometimes a fraction of the worth of the reward.

The PTI chief approached the Lahore Excessive Court docket (LHC) on Sunday for post-arrest bail after an Islamabad police staff arrived at his Zaman Park residence to arrest him for skipping proceedings within the Toshakhana case.

Nonetheless, the police staff returned empty-handed after Khan evaded the arrest.

Nonetheless, the Daybreak newspaper in a report stated the LHC registrar had raised objections to Khan’s plea, saying that full paperwork had not been submitted together with the petitions.

Khan has not attended any hearings since November final yr when he was injured in an assassination try at his rally within the Wazirabad space of Punjab.

Khan was granted interim bail by a particular courtroom in Islamabad after being shot in the course of the assassination try.

He has since acquired extensions on his bail as a consequence of medical causes.

Khan was ousted from energy in April after dropping a no-confidence vote in his management, which he alleged was a part of a US-led conspiracy focusing on him due to his impartial international coverage selections on Russia, China, and Afghanistan.

The PTI chief, who got here to energy in 2018, is the one Pakistani Prime Minister to be ousted in a no-confidence vote in Parliament.