ISLAMABAD: Bushra Bibi, the spouse of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, submitted an early hearing request for her appeals against her conviction in the iddat case on Tuesday at a district and sessions court in the nation’s capital.
The former first lady requested that the appeals against conviction be fixed for hearing this week by arguing in her petition that they are set for hearing in the local court.
In response to her appeal, the court scheduled the appeals hearing for June 7 in order to hear arguments in the case.
Bushra’s application was submitted the day after the District and Sessions Judge Shahrukh Arjumand’s motion to move the iddat matter to a different court was granted by the Islamabad High Court.
The judge’s letter to the IHC’s registrar, in which he expressed his qualms about announcing the ruling in the case in question because of Bushra’s former spouse and petitioner Khawar Maneka, preceded the IHC’s decision by a few days.
The case was moved by the IHC to Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Afzal Majuka’s court at the judge’s request.
Salman Safdar and Khalid Yusuf, Bushra Bibi’s attorneys, arrived in Judge Majuka’s court and asked for the sentence to be suspended, which has been pending since March 11.
