RAWALPINDI: An accountability court has approved a seven-day physical remand for PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, in the Toshakhana case. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had requested a 14-day remand, but the court granted only seven days, requiring the couple to be presented again on July 29.
The couple was brought before the court after their previous eight-day remand expired, and the NAB submitted a progress report. Imran Khan, the 71-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician, has been in prison for nearly a year due to three cases: the Toshakhana case, the cipher case, and the un-Islamic marriage case. Bushra Bibi has also been imprisoned for several months.
Although a court had suspended Imran Khan’s sentence in the Toshakhana case and overturned his convictions in the cipher and iddat cases, hopes for the couple’s release in July were dashed when the NAB arrested them on new charges related to the sale of state gifts.