RAWALPINDI: An accountability court has approved the seven-day remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in a newly filed application for a Toshakhan ruling.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had sought a 14-day remand for the couple, but the court rejected the request and asked the anti-transplant body to produce the suspects on July 29.
The anti-corruption body’s team produced the couple before the court after their previous eight-day remand expired and also submitted a progress report to the judge.
The 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician has been in jail for almost a year in three cases – the Toshakhan case, the cipher case and the non-Islamic marriage case. His wife Bushra Bibi has also been behind bars for months.
However, the court stayed his sentence in the Toshakhan case, while other courts overturned his conviction in the cipher and iddat cases.
Although there were hopes of his and Bushra’s release in July, they were dashed when the NAB arrested them on new charges related to the sale of government donations.
