Imran Khan moves Supreme Court for bail in Al-Qadir Trust corruption case

Islamabad: Imran Khan has moved the Supreme Court for bail in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case in which the jailed former prime minister and his wife are accused of receiving land worth billions of rupees as a bribe from a real estate tycoon, according to a media report.

Khan, 71, who has been incarcerated in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi since September 26 in various cases, Friday moved the



apex court following rejection of his plea by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on November 14.

According to The Express Tribune newspaper, Khan in the bail application alleged that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), while acting as a tool of the previous Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government, used the case to harass him on political grounds.