Former prime minister Imran Khan and PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi were acquitted by a session court in Islamabad on Thursday in the Azadi March case.
Judicial magistrate Malik Muhammad Imran announced the verdict, clearing PTI founder Imran Khan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, and AML chief Sheikh Rasheed. The court also acquitted Sadaqat Abbasi and Ali Nawaz Awan in connection with the Azadi March case.
It is worth noting that several leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), including Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi, had been charged in multiple FIRs related to the Azadi March. The cases stemmed from 42 FIRs registered by the police against senior PTI leaders and workers following clashes between the police and PTI members in the provincial capital.
Earlier, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had also acquitted Imran Khan and Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case.
Separately, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday instructed a district and sessions court to decide within 10 days on pleas seeking the suspension of the sentence of Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the iddat case. The IHC further directed the court to adjudicate on challenges to the couple’s conviction in the same case within one month.
These directives were issued during a hearing presided over by Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, addressing multiple petitions filed by Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi.
