Imran Khan, wife handed over to anti-graft body in fresh case

Islamabad, July 14

Despite back-to-back judicial relief for Imran Khan, the woes of Pakistan’s former PM and his wife are far from over.

A Pakistan court on Sunday handed over former prime minister and his wife Bushra Bibi to the country’s anti-corruption body on an eight-day remand for probe in a fresh case of alleged corruption.

The former first couple was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) soon after a district and sessions court on Saturday quashed their conviction in the un-Islamic marriage case. The court’s short order directed the authorities to release Khan and Bibi immediately, unless they were wanted in other cases.

The NAB, which filed a new Toshakhana case against the couple, on Sunday presented them before Judge Muhammad Ali Warraich of the accountability court. The judge conducted the hearing inside the Adiala Jail due to security reasons. NAB Deputy Director Mohsin Haroon, who led the team to arrest them, requested their physical remand and the court, after hearing the lawyers, agreed to grant an eight-day remand.

The court then ordered to present the two on July 22. The remand period can be extended to a maximum of 40 days at the request of NAB if it is needed to probe the suspects.