The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) remanded former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan into custody for eight days. He is in the Al-Qadir Trust case on Wednesday, according to his lawyers. He had been arrested on graft charges the day before.
“The court has approved eight days of physical remand of Imran Khan,” Ali Bukhari. A lawyer for Khan, told news agency AFP by phone after the closed-door hearing.
Earlier in the day, a Pakistan court indicted Khan in the Toshakhana case on charges of illegally selling state gifts during his premiership between 2018-22. Broadcaster Geo News reported.
A day after the country’s paramilitary force arrested Imran Khan on the orders of an anti-graft agency in another corruption case
On Wednesday, authorities reportedly arrested Shah Mahmood Qureshi. A former Pakistani foreign minister and close aide to Imran Khan, according to local reports.
The embattled cricketer-turned-politician has been in the dock for buying gifts. He received as Pakistan’s prime minister at a discounted price from the state depository called Toshakhana and sold them for profit.
Established in 1974, the Toshakhana is a department under the administrative control of the Cabinet Division. And stores precious gifts given to rulers, parliamentarians, bureaucrats, and officials by heads of other governments and states and foreign dignitaries
Also, Khan was present in an Islamabad district and sessions court. Judge Humayun Dilawar conducted the hearing.
Pakistan’s GEO television broadcast footage also showed Khan appearing before a judge at a temporary court inside a police compound on Wednesday in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case.
Khan’s arrest resulted in violent protests in several cities and attacks on military installations. Thus, forcing the government to deploy Army troops in parts of Pakistan’s Punjab.
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