Imran Khan, Pakistan's ex-PM, can be released on June 11: Report | Today news

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan is likely to get bail in the Al-Qadir Trust case on June 11, a top party leader said here. The Islamabad (IHC) Supreme Court intends to hear the petitions that the suspension of sentences to Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the 190 million pounds of Al-Qadir Trust case on June 11. Khan, 72, has been filed in various cases in the Adiala Jail since August 2023. Gohar Ali Khan, head of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insev (PTI), said: June 11 will be an important day for both Khan and his wife, but that he would be no special reason. The IHC had earlier postponed the trial of petitions in the Al-Qadir Trust case until June 11. The adjournment came after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) asked extra time to prepare its arguments, reports Ary News. Gohar told Ary News on Saturday that the PTI will work with opposition parties to launch a movement, which will be led by the party’s patron from prison. He requested the opposition parties to join PTI for the sake of the country’s survival and security and revealed that a strategy for the upcoming budget had been completed. “The party will address a press conference on June 9,” he said. Earlier last month, Khan said he would lead his party’s upcoming protest movement against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), led the Center’s coalition government from prison. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister and a prominent leader of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insev (Pti) party, Ali Amin Gandapur, threatened earlier this week to start a full-scale movement for the release of the cricketer after Eid Al-Adha. Khan, who faces several cases and was convicted in some of them, repeatedly claimed that last year’s general election on February 8 saw the ‘mother of all rig work’. He named his opponents the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as ‘mandate thieves’. Rana Sanaullah, special assistant of the Prime Minister for Political Affairs, while talking to the media in his hometown of Faisalabad in Punjab on Saturday, requested the PTI to accept Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer from a negotiations meeting to make changes to the election laws. Gohar claimed that Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi was being jailed without any charges to push the PTI founder, claiming that no transactions for the release of the founder would be made. He also rejected rumors of internal rifts within PTI. A few years ago, the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom agreed to a 190 million pound settlement with the family of the tycoon Malik Riaz. According to an earlier report in Dawn, in August 2019, the NCA declared that freezers on eight bank accounts were granted by 100 million pounds, which are believed to be derived from bribery and corruption in an overseas nation. “The NCA said it had informed the then government, managed by Khan’s Pti. It is alleged that Khan Shehzad Akbar, his liability assistance, asked to resolve the case, which in turn ‘set off the case’ with the frozen funds belonging to the national treasury, which was adapted to the liability. Bahria Town Ltd, Malik’s property firm, thousands of hectares of land to Karachi’s outskirts in the Malir district illegally donated hundreds of hectares of land to the Al-Qadir Trust, a non-profit organization that only has two trustees-Khan and Bushra Bibi.