Attack case: ATC wants Imran Khan in court

Declares four PTI leaders proclaimed offenders

ISLAMABAD:

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday ordered that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan be produced before it in the Judicial Complex attack case, while declaring former ministers

Farah Habib, Hammad Azhar, Murad Saeed and Shibli Faraz proclaimed offenders.

Imran was not produced before the ATC during the proceedings. On that Judge Tahir Abbas Supra directed that Imran be presented in the court at the next hearing

either in person or through video link. The court also sought details of properties owned by the four proclaimed offenders.

The court issued non-bailable arrest warrants for former Punjab Assembly deputy speaker Wasiq Qayyum and PTI MPA Hassan Khan Niazi over their continued absence despite being summoned. The

court adjourned further proceedings until November 5.

Separately, a division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), comprising Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar and Justice Muhammad Asif, accepted a request for adjourning the hearing of appeals filed by Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, against their convictions in the £190 million case.

During the hearing, Imran Khan's counsel Barrister Salman Safdar requested that the hearing be adjourned. He said roads were blocked and traffic jams had made it

difficult to reach the court, adding that counsel Latif Khosa had also been unable to attend.

He said the political temperature was rising during the Islamabad negotiations and questioned why the case had been fixed at such a time. "The Registrar's Office should not have fixed the case at this point," he said. He added that there

was nothing exceptional about

the case that warranted fixing it at that particular time.

The lawyer said, "We come to your court; sometimes we get relief and sometimes we don't. If we don't get relief, we approach the Supreme Court or the FCC." He said an appeal against an IHC order was pending before the FCC and that his case was expected to be fixed there the following week.

"If the hearing on the appeals starts here, that application will become ineffective," Safdar said. He also said that the IHC had passed an order of which he was an

affected party. The chief justice asked whether any order had

given him the impression that the court was biased. He said that there was "no such thing".

Barrister Safdar also sought

permission for a meeting

with Bushra Bibi, saying he had last met her in December 2025. "My communication with my client has been cut off. Please allow me to meet her," he said, adding that a separate miscellaneous application had also been filed.

Responding to his request for the meeting, the chief justice remarked that the matter was already before the Supreme Court and the Federal Constitutional Court. (FCC) "My hands are tied," the chief

justice said. The court adjourned the hearing of the appeals,

with the next date to be fixed by

the Registrar's Office.