Imran Khan's arrest warrant in judge threatening case stayed.

ISLAMABAD -- A local court in Islamabad on Thursday suspended the non-bailable arrest warrant of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in the judge-threatening case, till tomorrow (Friday), providing relief to the former prime minister for the day.

The arrest warrant was issued by Judicial Magistrate Malik Aman on Wednesday.

It should be noted that the charges, in this case, are related to a speech by Khan in which he allegedly threatened police and a female judge last year after one of his close aides, Shahbaz Gill, was denied bail in a sedition case.

The cricketer-turned-politician has faced a barrage of legal woes since his ouster in a no-confidence vote in April last year by a united opposition led by his successor, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

A convicted politician is liable to be disqualified for at least five years under the laws of the land.

Khan's lawyers Ali Bukhari and Faisal Chaudhry appeared before Additional Sessions Judge Sikandar Khan during a hearing at a district and sessions court in the federal capital.

Presenting the arguments, Chaudhry said that the judicial magistrate's decision to issue non-bailable arrest warrants was "illegal" as he had ignored some points of the detailed order of the additional sessions court judge.

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