{"id":57653,"date":"2025-08-23T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=57653"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:19:16","slug":"pakistan-top-court-grants-bail-to-jailed-ex-pm-imrankhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/57653\/pakistan-top-court-grants-bail-to-jailed-ex-pm-imrankhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan top court grants bail to jailed ex-PM ImranKhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi granted Khan&#8217;s appeal against a Lahore High Court verdict, which rejected his bail application in eight cases related to the 2023 violence.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered 72-year-old Khan&#8217;s release, if he is not wanted in any other case.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, however, will remain in jail as he has been convicted in a corruption case.<\/p>\n<p>The cricketer-turned-politician is facing a barrage of cases ranging from corruption to terrorism, which he dubs a &#8220;sham.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several leaders and lawmakers from his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, including opposition leaders in both houses of the parliament, have recently been convicted in similar cases.<\/p>\n<p>Several military installations, including the army headquarters, commonly known as the General Headquarters, in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, were stormed by protesters after Khan was briefly arrested in a corruption case in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi granted Khan&#8217;s appeal against a Lahore High Court verdict, which rejected his bail application in eight cases related to the \u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f3 violence. The court ordered \u06f7\u06f2-year-old Khan&#8217;s release, if he is not wanted in any other case. Khan, however, will remain in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}