An anti-terrorism court in Islamabad on Tuesday granted PTI chief Imran Khan bail in eight cases pertaining to the violence at the Judicial Complex. The court approved the bail, while hearing the PTI chief’s plea, till June 8. Cases were registered against Imran at Golra, Bara Kahu, Ramna, Khanna, and CTD police stations of the capital after the police accused the PTI chief and party workers of being involved in attacking police and creating unrest outside the FJC in Islamabad during the hearing of the Toshakhana case on March 18.

The former prime minister who is facing a number of casesand Bushra Bibi reached the Islamabad judicial complex, ahead of the former's appearance before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) at its Rawalpindi office in the £190 million settlement case. The two first appeared before the accountability court to seek a protective bail for the former first lady,  whose bail in the graft case expired today (May 23), to avoid her arrest in the £190 million graft case.

Earlier this month, the NAB had summoned Imran and his wife, Bushra Bibi, in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case and the investigation into the alleged misuse of authority as public office holder in aiding and abetting illegal transfer of £190 million, for personal gains, but they did not appear before the bureau. Imran, however, had submitted a detailed reply on May 18 and said that he was not the custodian of the document signed between property tycoon Malik Riaz’s family and the National Crime Agency (NCA) neither did he have any copy of the document.

“All the allegations made by you in the call-up notice are absolutely false, frivolous and concocted, and based on a deliberate misconception of law and facts, and baseless conjectures and surmises,” the PTI chief said in his reply. He said the correspondence between the government of Pakistan and NCA, UK constituted an official record and should be with the department concerned.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP