Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court for early hearing of his petition pertaining to disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The application filed by PTI legal team head Hamid Khan requested the court to fix the case on any date of the week commencing October 17.

The Jamaat-e-Islami is also deliberating to file early hearing application for its petition, wherein the party requested the court to issue directions for initiation of inquiry and arrest of culprits to recover the public money, in the wake of Panama Leaks.

“If our constitution petition is not listed for hearing in next week, we would request the court to fix it as early as possible in the best interest of people of Pakistan,” counsel for JI Asad Manzoor Butt told Daily Times.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali on September 29, after an in-camera hearing, had set aside the registrar’s objections to separate petitions of PTI and JI along with other related petitions filed by Tariq Asad and Zafarullah Khan of Watan Party against Nawaz Sharif and his family over the Panamagate scam.

Justice Jamali had observed that it seems that the office’s objections as to the maintainability of these petitions are ill-founded.

PML-N mouthpiece Daniyal Aziz said that his party’s legal team is ready for a legal battle.