ISLAMABAD: The former Prime Minster and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan will be indicted in contempt of court case tomorrow (Thursday) for his remarks about an Islamabad court judge during a rally in Islamabad on August 20, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) said on Wednesday.
According to the circular, the case will begin at 2:30 pm, at which time a larger bench of the IHC will lay out Imran Khan’s charges.
The circular stated that Imran Khan’s 15-member legal team and 15 attorneys and advocates general from the office of the attorney general would be allowed enter the courtroom.
Unless they possess the special passes granted by the IHC Registrar office, no one other than the aforementioned would be permitted admission to the courtroom, it was stated.
“[The] Islamabad administration and police will make security arrangements to maintain decorum in court,” it added.
At the most recent hearing on September 8, Imran Khan’s reaction was deemed “unsatisfactory,” and the IHC made the decision to indict the former prime minister since he had not offered a full apology.
The PTI chairman did not apologize in his initial response to the IHC’s show-cause notice in the case, but he did offer to retract his comments “if they were incorrect”.
The PTI chairman appeared to have chosen to convince the court that it should dismiss the notice based on his explanation and adhere to the Islamic values of forgiveness in his most recent and second response, a 19-page document.
