Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, has been ordered to appear before a banking court in Islamabad on February 28 in connection with a case alleging that he received prohibited funding. Other Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders are named in the case, which was brought under the Foreign Exchange Act.
Judge Rukhshanda Shaheen presided over the hearing, and during it, Khan’s legal team handed the court a copy of the ruling from the Islamabad High Court (IHC). Khan had previously been ordered by the IHC to appear in court in the matter.
The former prime minister was charged with misusing his interim bail to avoid appearing in court and with failing to cooperate with the investigation in the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) application, which was also filed in court. The agency also questioned Khan’s presentation of a medical report, claiming that Khan owned the hospital where it was sourced. The FIA requested that a medical board be established by the court to examine Khan.
Khan had previously written to the case’s investigation officer asking that his statement be written down. He had cited an attempted assassination on him during a march to Islamabad that left him with multiple gunshot wounds. Khan asserted that the case was filed without conducting an investigation, and that he had asked the FIA to record his statement via a video link or letter, as well as to send a team to Lahore for the investigation.
Khan claimed that the FIA did not cooperate despite repeated requests. The former prime minister asserted that numerous courts, including the IHC, had upheld the validity of his medical reports and charged the organisation with being subject to the whims of the federal government. Khan said he intended to participate in the case via letter.
