Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Hamad Azhar found temporary relief as the Peshawar High Court granted him transit bail for one month to evade potential arrest.
Peshwar: PHC grants transit bail to PTI leader Hamad Azhar. Azhar, facing legal scrutiny across multiple cities, sought recourse through the court to preempt any impending detention.
Appearing before Chief Justice Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, his legal team argued for leniency, prompting the court to inquire about the suitable duration for the bail period.
Additional Advocate General briefed the court, indicating the extensive legal entanglements the PTI leader faced, prompting the court to approve transit bail for 51 out of 100 pending cases.
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Under the court’s directive, Azhar is obliged to present himself before the respective courts within the stipulated one-month period. The ruling offers a temporary reprieve to the PTI leader, allowing him to address his legal obligations while navigating the intricate legal landscape.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country’s prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI ranks among the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML–N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and it is the largest party in terms of representation in the National Assembly of Pakistan since the 2018 general election. With over 10 million members in Pakistan and abroad, it claims to be the country’s largest political party by primary membership, as well as one of the largest political parties in the world.
Despite Khan’s popular persona in Pakistan, the PTI had limited initial success: it failed to win, as a collective, a single seat in the 1997 general election and the 2002 general election; only Khan himself was able to win a seat. From 1999 to 2007, the PTI supported the military presidency of Pervez Musharraf. It rose in opposition to Musharraf in 2007 and also boycotted the 2008 general election, accusing it of having been conducted with fraudulent procedures under Musharraf’s rule. The global popularity of the “Third Way” during the Musharraf era led to the rise of a new Pakistani political bloc focused on centrism, deviating from the traditional dominance of the centre-left PPP and the centre-right PML–N. When the PML–Q began to decline in the aftermath of Musharraf’s presidency, much of its centrist voter bank was lost to the PTI. Around the same time, the PPP’s popularity began to decrease after the disqualification of Yousaf Raza Gillani in 2012. Similarly, the PTI appealed to many former PPP voters, particularly in the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, due to its outlook on populism.
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