Blanket relief: IHC bars Imran’s arrest in cases across Pakistan till Monday

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday barred authorities from arresting PTI Chairman Imran Khan in cases — including those that are undisclosed — registered across the country until Monday (May 15).

The court also granted protective bail to the former prime minister in three terrorism cases registered against him in Lahore and the Zille Shah murder case.

Earlier in the day, a separate IHC bench accepted Imran’s bail in the Al-Qadir Trust case for two weeks, a day after the Supreme Court termed his arrest “invalid and unlawful”. It also stopped authorities from arresting the PTI chief till May 17 in any case registered in Islamabad after May 9.