Despite bail, Hassaan Niazi remains imprisoned.

ISLAMABAD -- While a judicial magistrate in Quetta rejected the police request seeking five-day physical remand of Hassaan Niazi and granted interim bail to him in a case registered against him by the Balochistan police, the PTI leader and nephew of former prime minister Imran Khan was not released from jail till late Saturday evening.

The Balochistan police brought him to Quetta from Islamabad on Saturday morning and produced him before the judicial magistrate (Quetta-III) Jamil Ahmed Sheikh.

In his statement before the court, Hassaan Niazi said his only fault was that he was Mr Khan's legal adviser.

The magistrate then rejected the police plea and granted interim bail to him against surety bonds of Rs100,000.

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However, he was not released and was still in district jail of Quetta in the evening.

'Despite issuing release orders of the judicial magistrate, the jail authorities have not released Hassaan Niazi,' Advocate Ali Hassan Bugti said, complaining that the police had not even shared a copy of the FIR registered against him in Quetta.

The PTI leader was earlier handed over to Balochistan police by a judicial magistrate (Islamabad-west) who accepted the police plea for his custody in a case registered in the provincial capital, with the directive to the police to produce him before the relevant court in Quetta on March 25.

Meanwhile, a civil judge in Islamabad granted post-arrest bail to Mr Niazi, in a case for allegedly threatening police officials.

Appearing before judicial magistrate Ihtasham Alam Khan, Mr Niazi's lawyers argued that the PTI leader has been falsely...