SC rejects PTI petition challenging high court verdict on Imran Khan's arrest.

ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) petition challenging the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) decision calling party chief Imran Khan's arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) 'legal'.

Following Khan's arrest on Tuesday inside the IHC, the PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi summoned an emergency meeting of the seven-member committee to review the situation and devise a comprehensive strategy to secure the safe and early release of the party chair.

The senior PTI leader had announced the party's plan to move the apex court.

PTI's legal team headed by the party's senior vice president Fawad Chaudhry submitted the petition.

'It is therefore, respectfully prayed that leave to appeal may please be granted against the impunged order 09-05-2023 passed by Hon'ble Islamabad High Court [...] may be set-aside and further...