Pakistan: Court orders release of Imran’s party president Chaudhary Parvez Elahi

A Pakistani court on Friday ordered the immediate release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party chairman Chaudhary Pervez Elahi from the custody of the anti-corruption agency in a corruption case. According to media reports, the court warned the agency against arresting the former Punjab chief minister in any other case. The Express Tribune newspaper reported that Justice Amjad Rafiq of the Lahore High Court (LHS) had accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of failing to produce Elahi in court despite the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) order. It was decided to release the president of

“The LHS ordered the immediate release of former Punjab chief minister Parvez Elahi,” the report said.Expressing displeasure over the conduct of the NAB and the Punjab provincial government, Justice Rafiq in his remarks said that the High Court was being undermined. “Stop playing ping-pong (table tennis) with the court,” he said while directing an inquiry into the arrest made in defiance of the court’s order.

Elahi (77) is among those PTI leaders and workers, The arrests are part of the government’s crackdown on the PTI leadership following riots on May 9 in protest against the taking of party chief Imran Khan by paramilitary forces to the Islamabad High Court complex. He was first arrested on June 1, but has been repeatedly denied release, citing various corruption cases. The latest arrest of the PTI chairman was made by the NAB on August 14 for allegedly accepting bribes to get contracts for road projects.

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