State can't compel anyone for DNA test, Imran counsel argues in IHC.

Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan's counsel WednesA!day adopted the stance before the IsA!lamabad High Court (IHC) that the State cannot compel anyone for the DNA test. The counsel submitted this before a larger bench of the IHC headed by Chief Justice of IHC Justice Aamer Farooq and comprising JusA!tice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and JusA!tice Arbab Tahir during the hearing of a petition seeking disqualification of Khan for concealing his alleged daughter in the nomination papers submitted to contest the 2018 generA!al elections. In this mater, petitioner Sajid Mahmood approached the IHC claiming that although Imran made arrangements for Tyrian White's upA!keep abroad, he did not disclose it in nomination papers and affidavits filed by him for elections.

During the hearing, Khan's lawyer Salman Akram Raja said while arguA!ing the question of admissibility of the petition that this court had disA!missed the same petition in the past.

He added that this matter is relatA!ed to that of year 1992 while the afA!fidavit was submitted in 2018. The petitioner's counsel Hamid Shah inA!formed the bench that earlier, they had photocopied documents but now, they have brought new attestA!ed documents which will be subA!mitted on Thursday (today)...