Court converts Imran's bailable arrest warrants into non-bailable.

An Islamabad court on WednesA!day converted bailable arrest warrants for PTI chief Imran Khan in woman judge threat case into non-bailable directing authorities to present him before the court on April 18.

In the last hearing on March 24, the court converted the non-bailable arrest warrant issued for the PTI chief into a bailable warA!rant at the PTI's request while hearing a case registered against the ex-premier for allegedly usA!ing threatening language against Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry and the Islamabad police officials. On Wednesday, prosecutor Rizwan Abbasi appeared in Judicial MagA!istrate Malik Aman's court. Imran was represented by his counsel Faisal Chaudhry. At the outset of the hearing, the prosecutor obA!jected to Imran's absence, saying his warrants should be changed from bailable to non-bailable as he failed to appear before the court. 'We are done with his ex-cuses regarding the Wazirabad incident. Did he not provide a similar excuse when he appeared before another court two days ago?' Rizwan asked. He pointed out that Imran's request for exA!emption from attendance had been granted in each hearing.

He also cited the judge's stateA!ment from the last hearing, in which the judge stated that ImA!ran's warrants had been issued due to his persistent absence from the proceedings. The prosA!ecutor objected that the former premier's signature was not on the request for exemption from attendance...