The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has scheduled a hearing for November 10 to consider the appeals of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi. The appeals challenge the convictions and sentences handed down to the pair in the £190 million case.
According to the cause list issued by the IHC Registrar’s Office, a division bench consisting of Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar and Justice Muhammad Asif will hear the matter. The court has requested that the counsel for the convicts provide arguments regarding their appeals.
At a previous hearing, the court adjourned the proceedings without taking up the matter after a request was made by Barrister Salman Safdar, the counsel for Imran Khan.
The legal proceedings stem from a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau. In January 2025, an Islamabad accountability court sentenced Imran Khan to 14 years in prison and Bushra Bibi to seven years.
The case involves the Al-Qadir Trust, a welfare organisation established in 2018 that operates a university outside Islamabad. The trust is accused of being used as a front to receive land worth millions of dollars from a real estate tycoon. The government alleges that these donations were made in exchange for the former premier’s administration using repatriated funds from the United Kingdom to pay fines for the businessman, rather than depositing the money into the national exchequer.
Imran Khan has denied these allegations, maintaining that neither he nor his wife derived any financial benefit from the trust or any related transactions.
