Court restrains Imran Khan and Bushra from making statements against institutions – Pakistan

The Islamabad Accountability Court restrained PTI founders Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi from speaking once morest state institutions and their officials.

Accountability Court judge Nasir Javed Rana issued a major order on the petition of PTI, the founder of Fair Trial, in which the court also stopped speaking once morest the state institutions and their officials in the court room during the trial.

According to the order, it is alleged that the founder PTI made political, provocative and biased statements once morest the honorable person of the state institutions, while the statements regarding the judiciary, Pakistan Army and Army Chief are tantamount to disrupting the judicial decorum. The statements also cause obstruction in the process of dispensation of justice. It is the duty of the court to observe the requirements of court decorum and fair trial.

The court ordered that the jail authorities should restore the jail court to its pre-Eid position while the accused shall not make political, provocative and biased statements even with reference to state institutions and their officials. The media will limit its reporting to the extent of the court proceedings and the media will not report the statements of the accused during the court proceedings of the trial.

The order states that the prosecution, the accused and their lawyers shall not make inflammatory, political and biased statements during the hearing which may harm the decorum of the court. will

The court ordered the media to refrain from publishing political, inflammatory narratives targeting state institutions and their officials, subject to the PEMRA guidelines that prohibit discussing pending cases and According to the Pemra Code of Conduct, the political statement of the accused does not come in legal reporting.