A miscellaneous application has been filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former premier Imran Khan on Saturday, requesting permission to meet with his lawyers for legal consultation regarding the appeal against his sentence in the\u00a0\u00a3190 million case.<\/p>\n
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The application, filed through\u00a0Barrister Salman Safdar, seeks the provision of an immediate and uninterrupted meeting between Imran and his legal counsel. The chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the inspector general of Punjab Prisons, and the superintendent of Adiala Jail have been made respondents in the application.<\/p>\n
According to the text of the application, Imran has not been able to have any meaningful meeting with his counsel since December 20, 2025 \u2013 a period of approximately three months and 12 days during which he has been deprived of legal access.<\/p>\n
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The application further stated\u00a0that the suspension of sentence application, which has been pending since March 19, 2025, has seen hearings on 16 different dates so far. It alleged\u00a0that NAB’s conduct is deliberately causing delay and obstruction in the proceedings of the case, and that all efforts by lawyers to meet with their client have been thwarted by jail authorities.<\/p>\n
The application invokes Jail Rules, 1978, and Articles 9, 10-A, and 14 of the Constitution of Pakistan, arguing that the right to meet a lawyer constitutes a fundamental right. “The act of banning inmates from meeting their families, friends, and legal counsel is not only in blatant violation of the Pakistan Prison Rules, 1978, but also amounts to a gross abuse of fundamental human rights,” the application reads.<\/p>\n
It submitted\u00a0further that the right of access to counsel is an established legal and constitutional safeguard…and is equally available to prisoners facing the gravest of charges, including capital offences”.<\/p>\n
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The application has called upon the court to issue an immediate order allowing both Imran and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to meet their counsel “for the purpose of legal consultation and effective preparation of the pending Appeal, to safeguard their fundamental and constitutional rights.”<\/p>\n
Yesterday, lawyers for Bushra Bibi moved the IHC seeking a ruling for the suspension of her sentence in the \u00a3190 million case before her appeal against her conviction was taken up.<\/p>\n
The application, also filed by Safdar, contends that bail-related matters must be prioritised in line with Supreme Court directives, adding that delay in hearing suspension petitions would run contrary to the apex court’s established policy.<\/p>\n
In January last year, an Islamabad accountability court sentenced Imran to 14 years and Bibi to seven years in prison in the \u00a3190 million case, filed by NAB. Currently, the IHC is hearing appeals for suspending these sentences.<\/p>\n
\u00a3190 million case<\/p>\n
Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi are facing a\u00a0\u00a3190 million graft case\u00a0linked to the Al-Qadir Trust, a welfare organisation they established in 2018. The trust, which runs a university outside Islamabad focused on spirituality and Islamic teachings, is accused of being used as a front to receive land worth millions of dollars from a real estate tycoon.<\/p>\n
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The government claims the donations were in exchange for Imran\u2019s administration using repatriated UK funds to pay fines against the businessman, instead of depositing the money into Pakistan\u2019s treasury.<\/p>\n
Imran has denied any wrongdoing, insisting neither he nor his wife gained financially from the trust or related transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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