Pakistan HC rejects Imran Khan's plea in Toshakhana case

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan received a big setback on Monday after Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday rejected his plea to suspend the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP)'s decision of his disqualification in Toshakhana case. 

The former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan will have to go through a gruelling legal battle to regain his political turf in the wake of his disqualification from holding public office for five years in the Toshakhana case for hiding proceeds from the sale of gifts he received from foreign leaders, according to a media report. Khan on Friday lost membership of Parliament, as well as, barred from



contesting elections for five years after the Election Commission of Pakistan, the top constitutional election body, found him guilty of hiding the proceeds from the sale of precious gifts which he got as the prime minister from different heads of states.

However, there is confusion about whether the five-year disqualification would apply only to the five years term of the current assembly, or whether the disqualification period would start from the date of the verdict by the ECP. The tenure of the current national assembly began in August 2018 and would be completed in 2023. Khan already tendered his resignation as a lawmaker in April but it was not accepted.