PHC extends protective bails of PTI leaders

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has extended the protective bail of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and Members of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser, Shahram Tarakai, Shehryar Afridi, Dawar Kundi, Iqbal Afridi and provincial ministers Faisal Khan Tarakai, Aftab Alam, Faisal Javed, Sohail Afridi, Nadia Khattak and Malik Shahab Advocate while once again issuing notices to the federal government and other institutions to submit details of the cases registered against them.

The case was heard by a two-member bench of the PHC comprising Justice Syed Arshad Ali and Justice Sahibzada Asadullah.

When the hearing of the petitions began, Alam Khan Adenzai, Moazzam Butt, Deputy Attorney General Sanaullah and Daulat Khan appeared on behalf of the petitioners.

The petitioners' lawyers told the court that cases had been registered against their clients at various police stations of Punjab and Islamabad after the November 24 protest, adding that they wanted to appear before the relevant courts for which details of the cases registered against them should be provided.

The Deputy Attorney General then informed the court that they had previously given a list of the cases to Asad Qaiser, upon which the case had been dropped, and that he had now come to the court again.

The petitioners' lawyer told the court that they had filed the writ after November 24 and wanted details of cases registered after that date.

The Deputy Attorney General also told the court that there was a First Information Report (FIR) against Asad Qaiser and that the list had not been received in the case of Shahram Tarakai which would be submitted when it was.

He also said a report had been prepared in the case of Provincial Education Minister Faisal Khan Tarakai against whom an FIR had been registered in Islamabad.