NAB gets 8-day physical remand of ex-PM in Al-Qadir Trust case.

ISLAMABAD -- The legal woes of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan multiplied on Wednesday when an accountability court sent him on an eight-day physical remand to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Al-Qadir Trust case.

The former prime minister was presented before Judge Mohammad Bashir in the land corruption case at Islamabad Police Lines, which was given the status of a court as a 'one-time dispensation' late on Tuesday night.

Judge Bashir, while announcing the verdict reserved earlier, directed officials to present Khan in court on May 17.

Khan was arrested on Tuesday by Rangers - becoming the seventh former prime minister to be arrested in Pakistan - on the orders of the NAB, an autonomous anti-graft agency, in relation to the corruption case. He was then moved to its office in the garrison town of Rawalpindi for questioning.

Later, announcing the reserved verdict on Khan's arrest, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) said that the arrest was legal; therefore, Khan's legal team challenged the verdict in the Supreme Court; however, the plea was turned down by the apex court citing various reasons.

The cricketer-turned-politician faces a slew of court cases and was also indicted today in Toshakhana case - which involved allegations that he did not properly disclose earnings from the sale of state gifts from his time in office.

At the outset of the hearing, the NAB sought a 14-day physical remand - the maximum allowed in the law - but the PTI lawyers opposed the request.

Sources told media that Khan's legal team was earlier denied permission to meet the party chief ahead of the hearing; however, once the hearing began Khan held discussions - during a hearing break - with lawyers Khawaja Haris, Faisal Chaudhry, Ali Gohar, and Ali Bukhari.

Several officials of the anti-graft watchdog including Special Prosecutor Rafay Maqsood, Deputy Prosecutor Muzaffar Abbasi, Prosecutor Sardar Zulqarnain and...