ISLAMABAD:The Supreme Court on Thursday summoned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman in a case related to the killing of a lawyer who had accused him of high treason. The apex court has ordered the former prime minister to appear before it at 10:00am on Monday in the case.Earlier this month, the top court turned down a plea seeking a stay order against the PTI chairman in the murder case. A two-member bench comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Ayesha Malik also didn’t accept the application against the non-bailable warrants issued for the accused.
Earlier on June 6, the PTI chief was booked in the murder case of Abdu Razzaq Shard, a Supreme Court lawyer, who was assassinated by unidentified persons on Airport Road in the provincial capital. A case under murder and terrorism sections were lodged on the complaint of victim’s son as police said the killers shot him with a Kalashnikov. The victim received 16 bullets in different parts of his body. Shar was one of the petitioners in a treason case against the PTI chairman. Lawyers Amanullah Kanrani and Shar had jointly submitted a petition in the Balochistan High Court (BHC), seeking an action against the former prime minister under the Article 6 of the Constitution.
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