Hours before his arrest, former Pakistan PM Imran Khan gets bail in multiple cases – Times of India

Islamabad: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday cleared the former prime minister Imran KhanHours before the PTI chief was arrested in the Islamabad High Court by paramilitary rangers, the interim bail plea was filed in several cases.
ATC judge Raja Jawad Abbas heard the plea of ​​Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chief seeking bail in connection with the March 18 violence outside the Federal Judicial Complex and 50,000 Pakistani nationals in all seven cases. Khan’s bail was approved against a bond of Rs. Newspaper reported.
The 70-year-old former prime minister was arrested by paramilitary Rangers on Tuesday while he was at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for a hearing in a corruption case, a day after he accused the country’s powerful attacked the army. kill him.
“Mr Khan has been arrested in the land transfer case to property tycoon Malik Riaz and is being handed over to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB),” an NAB official confirmed to PTI.
The cricketer-turned-politician on Tuesday requested the IHC to grant him interim bail in a separate case registered against him for violating Section 144 by holding a rally without necessary permission in Islamabad, reports said.
Police have registered a case against the PTI chief and other party leaders for holding a rally in Islamabad without permission on Saturday.
Khan also complained in IHC on Tuesday islamabad police For not facilitating him in joining the ongoing investigation against him.
According to a petition filed through his lawyer Salman Safdar, Khan had written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad, the Advocate General and an Additional Attorney General to involve him in the investigation, but to no avail, as he did not receive any reactions occurred, the report said.
Over 120 cases have been registered against Khan since he was ousted from power through a no-confidence motion in April last year. He calls all the cases fake, set up to keep him out of the political arena.
The petition states that the PTI chief wanted to join the probe, but “the security agencies had become the tools of the government”, reports said.
It said that despite repeated letters, Khan was not provided with the necessary equipment to join the investigation.
Currently, facing over 140 cases related to the mine terror, BlasphemyMurder, violence, and inciting violence.
PTI chief Khan was ousted from power in April after losing a vote of no confidence in his leadership, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy targeting him because of his independent foreign policy decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan. was part of.
Khan, who came to power in 2018, is the only Pakistani prime minister to survive a no-confidence vote in parliament.