The registrar office of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday raised objections to the petition filed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan challenging a decision of the lower court which upheld his arrest warrants in the Toshakhana case. The registrar said the former prime minister did not conduct biometric verification to submit the petition, adding that how the high court could take up a petition again when it has issued verdict on it. A legal team of the former prime minister filed the petition in the IHC as the district and sessions court has summoned him on March 18 to attending the hearing he has skipped for four times. Imran Khan’s lawyer Khawaja Harris has plead the high court to shift the case from the court of the Additional Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal.

He also asked the IHC to accept an undertaking and cancel the arrest warrants issued against his client. On Thursday, the lower court rejected Mr Khan plea seeking the suspension of non-bailable arrest warrants issued in the Toshakhana case. The judge announced the verdict reserved earlier redirecting the authorities concerned to arrest the former prime minister and present him before the court on March 18. Imran Khan’s indictment in the reference sent by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was originally scheduled for February 28, but it was differed multiple times before as the PTI chief did not show-up. Later, the court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for the PTI chairman.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP