LHC rejects Ayyan's plea.

LAHORE -- The Lahore High Court registrar office Wednesday rejected a plea filed by model Ayyan Ali seeking the cancellation of her arrest warrants.

In an objection attached to the petition that Ayyan had submitted through Advocate Aftab Ahmad Bajwa the high court registrar said that the case cannot be fixed for hearing as the model is not in the country.

Ali, who is indicted in a currency smuggling case, was declared a proclaimed offender by a special court last week after she failed to appear despite multiple summons by the judge. She has not appeared before the court since 2016. The trial court also ordered confiscation of her assets.

In the petition, Ali says that she wants to appear before the trial court to prove her innocence in the case. Her lawyer said that Article 10-A of the Constitution ensures right of a transparent trial to every citizen of the land and requested the court to suspend the arrest warrants. He added the non-appearance of the petitioner before the trial court was neither...