Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan will get protecting bail in terrorism case

The Islamabad High Court on Monday granted Pakistan’s ousted prime minister Imran Khan protecting bail until Thursday in a terrorism case registered towards him for threatening police, judiciary and different state establishments at his Islamabad rally on Saturday.

Khan was booked on Sunday below the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Earlier within the day, Khan moved the court docket searching for pre-arrest bail within the case.

The petition filed by his attorneys Babar Awan and Faisal Chaudhry acknowledged that Khan was a “target of the ruling PDM (Pakistan Democratic Movement) for his fearless criticism, and extremely bold and blunt stance against corruption and corrupt politicians”, the Dawn newspaper reported.

“And to achieve this malicious agenda, acting in a most unfortunate and clumsy manner, a false and frivolous complaint has been registered against him by the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police at the behest of the incumbent government,” it added.

The plea additional alleged that the federal government had determined to “cross all limits” to arrest Imran “under false accusations” and was “hell-bent to sort out the petitioner and his party at all costs”.