RAWALPINDI: Aleema Khanum, the sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan named in a case related to the November 26 protest, has filed a petition before the Special Court of Anti-Terrorism Rawalpindi to summon 21 prosecution witnesses.
The witnesses include the federal minister for interior, federal minister for information and provincial minister for information and other important figures.
The court, while accepting Aleema Khanum’s petition for hearing, issued notices to the parties for today (Wednesday). Aleema also received a questionnaire issued by the court under Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The questionnaire consists of 37 questions. Aleema appeared in the court along with her lawyers Faisal Malik and Naeem Haider Panjotha.
A team led by Senior Prosecutor Zaheer was present.
Similarly, the court adjourned the hearing of the GHQ attack case against 120 accused including Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi until June 30 without taking any action.
In another case, Judge Sheikh Ijaz Ali of the Special Accountability Court of Rawalpindi recorded the statements of three prosecution witnesses in a land grabbing case against former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi.
The statements of Assistant Director Survey of Pakistan Muhammad Asif, Patwari Muhammad Jahangir and Yar Muhammad were recorded.
The court adjourned the hearing until July 1 and summoned more prosecution witnesses.
