Lahore

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking a stay on her possible arrest, source reported on Tuesday.

In the petition, she has sought details of all the cases including undisclosed FIRs registered against her.

Source reported that Advocate Mushtaq Ahmad Mohal filed the petition, representing Bushra Bibi, pleading that the agencies including FIA, NAB, police and ACE have been keeping the FIRs secret so the petitioner could not approach the courts for grant of pre-arrest bail.

The petition called the keeping the secrecy of registered cases illegal, unlawful and violative of fundamental rights.

Her petition contended that after the ‘illegal’ removal of her husband from the office of the prime minister, the political victimisation against her, her husband and other members of the family started by the federal and provincial governments, and law enforcement agencies with mala fide and ulterior motives lodged many false and frivolous FIRs against the petitioner and her husband on the direction of the governments.

Her petition asked the court to declare the act of the respondents illegal and restrain them from arresting the petitioner in any undisclosed case or inquiry.

The hearing of the petition is fixed before the court of Justice Alia Neelum, source reported.

Earlier, Judge Abul Hasnat Muhammad Zulaqrnain heard the case and granted bail to Bushra Bibi till September 12 in the Toshakhana case. Bushra Bibi’s bail was accepted against surety bonds worth 500,000 Pakistani Rupees (PKR).