The court ordered PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife to speak out against state institutions.
Islamabad:
An Islamabad court has banned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi from making statements against state institutions and officials, The Express Tribune reported.
Justice Basir Javed Rana ordered the PTI founder and his wife to speak out in court against state institutions during the hearing of a petition seeking fair trial.
The court also ordered the media to avoid publishing such politically provocative statements targeting state institutions and their officials.
According to the order, the PTI chief made provocative political statements against senior officials of state institutions including the army, judiciary and the army chief, The Express Tribune reported.
“Such statements disrupt judicial decorum and also hamper judicial functions such as administration of justice,” the order added.
In its order, the court also directed the prosecution, the suspects and their counsels not to make political or inflammatory statements that could disrupt the decorum of the court.
Khan, who was prime minister from 2018 to 2022, remains jailed in several cases, including a 14-year prison sentence for him and his wife for illegally selling state gifts.
Khan was first jailed after being handed a three-year prison sentence by the Election Commission in August 2023 for failing to declare assets earned from selling gifts worth more than PKR 140 million (USD 501,000). which were state-owned and which he had received during his premiership.
In January, Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were given 14-year prison sentences following a separate investigation by the country's top anti-graft organization into the same charges relating to state donations.
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