Zubair Qureshi Islamabad
The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday overturned the ruling of a sessions court wherein it had rejected Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s petition to declare the Toshkhana case inadmissible.
IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq pronounced the verdict reserved on June 23 on a petition filed by the former prime minister, challenging the Toshakhana trial proceedings.
The verdict came a day after the PTI chief in a petition expressed reservatins on the court of Justice Farooq asking him not to hear his cases.
In a verdict, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Observer, the IHC asked the sessions court to consider the ex-PM’s plea as pending and decide it afresh within seven days.
“The application in question shall be deemed to be pending and decided afresh by the learned trial court within seven days from the receipt of this judgment, keeping in view the law in question and observations made above,” the court order says.
The IHC also observed that the sessions court had left the “issue undecided and dismissed the application of the petitioner with scanty reasons which left the main legal issues undecided or unresolved”.
