IHC issues notices to law ministry, others.

ISLAMABAD -- The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Thursday issued notices to the MinisAtry of Law and other respondents in a petition filed by former premier and Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan seeking permission for his video-link appearance in court.

A single bench of IHC comprising Chief Justice of IHC Justice Aamer Farooq conducted hearing of Imran Khan's petition. Earlier, the Registrar's Office had raised three objections to the PTI chief's petition, stating that Imran Khan's request is vague while another objection was raised about how could a video-link plea be filed in the high court. The office also raised an objection to the maintainability of the video link before being heard by the court concerned. During the hearing, Justice Aamer removed the objections and directed the office to fix the case for regular hearing. After hearing arguAments of petitioner's counsels, the IHC bench issued notices to respondents including Ministry of Law and deferred proceedings till March 15. In this matAter, Chairman PTI had moved the petiAtion through Advocate Faisal Fareed Chaudhry and adopted the stance that the...