Hassaan Niazi freed in Karachi, gets transit bail to Peshawar.

KARACHI -- An additioAnal district and sessions court on Thursday granted transit bail to lawyer Hassaan Niazi, a nephew of PTI chief Imran Khan, in a case lodged against him at the Nowshera Cantt police station, Khyber PakhtunAkhwa, on the charges of mutiny and sedition.

Granting him interim post-arrest bail against the sum of Rs100,000, the judge told Mr Niazi to surrender before the relevant court within 48 hours. Mr Niazi secured bail after the KP police obtained his custody from Karachi without obtaining a no-objection certificate.

The court also issued notices to the SHO of the Jamshed Quarters police station and the investigating officer to file their respective replies on a contempt application filed by Mr Niazi.

On Wednesday, Judicial Magistrate (East) Sibghatullah discharged Mr Niazi from a case lodged under sections 121, 124-A, 153-A and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code at the Jamshed Quarters police station.

Meanwhile, the Sindh High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Mr Niazi's father seeking the...