ISLAMABAD: A district and classes courtroom on Thursday reserved the decision on appeals, filed by former prime minister Imran Khan and his partner Bushra Bibi, towards their conviction within the Iddat case.
The judgement is more likely to be introduced on Might 29.
Raja Rizwan Abbasi, lead counsel for complainant Khawar Fareed Maneka, was not within the courtroom in the course of the listening to of the appeals on Thursday.
Defence counsel Usman Gill and the prosecutor concluded their arguments earlier than District and Classes Choose Sharukh Arjumand.
PTI-allied religio-political leaders time period case ‘politically motivated’; prosecutor seeks extra time to conclude arguments in cipher case
The courtroom requested his affiliate to contact Rizwan Abbasi and inform him that he might conclude his arguments in particular person or by way of video hyperlink.
Nevertheless, when Mr Abbasi failed to look, the courtroom reserved its determination.
‘Fabricated case’
Religio-political leaders allied with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) described the case as fabricated, politically motivated and opposite to the teachings of the Holy Quran and Sunnah.
In a joint video assertion, they emphasised that within the matter of Iddat, the testimony given by the lady involved is taken into account credible and adequate, due to this fact, any determination must be made accordingly.
Pir Noorul Haq Qadri, Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen chief Allama Raja Nasir Abbas and Sunni Ittehad Council Chairman Sahibzada Hamid Raza mentioned that after consulting spiritual students from all faculties of thought, that they had concluded that the Iddat case was a politically-motivated conspiracy devoid of any spiritual, authorized, or ethical foundation.
They claimed that even when they have been towards Imran Khan they might have nonetheless mentioned what was proper, as a result of it was a matter of faith.
Mr Qadri mentioned in issues reminiscent of Iddat, the lady’s testimony was thought of adequate and must be revered.
He urged the federal government and judiciary to desert makes an attempt geared toward destroying household and marital life and undermining the very cloth of society.
He known as for all spiritual students no matter their political affiliation to oppose such “conspiracies” and converse out publically towards them.
Mr Abbas mentioned judiciary mustn’t intervene in such delicate spiritual issues they’ve little information of.
He demanded that the decide who awarded sentence to the PTI founder and his partner must be questioned about his information on Islam and faith.
Mr Raza claimed that what they have been stating was not their opinion however that they had reached this conclusion after lengthy deliberation with students of various faculties of thought.
Cipher case
In the meantime, the listening to of appeals by Imran Khan and Shah Mehmood Qureshi towards their conviction within the cipher case couldn’t be accomplished because the FIA’s particular prosecutor sought extra time to conclude his arguments.
Particular Prosecutor Syed Zulfiqar Abbasi Naqvi was looking for an hour from a division bench of the Islamabad Excessive Court docket comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb to conclude his arguments.
The listening to began at about 3pm. After about an hour and a half, the chief justice inquired from Mr Naqvi how lengthy would he take to conclude his arguments, to which the prosecutor replied that he would want at the least yet another hour.
Justice Aurangzeb remarked that the courtroom works beneath a decent schedule and the judges are supposed to jot down orders within the night.
Defence counsel Barrister Salman Safdar knowledgeable the courtroom he would require 45 minutes for a rebuttal to the prosecution’s arguments.
Subsequently, additional listening to of the matter was adjourned to Might 28.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty fourth, 2024