Imran Khan

Imran Khan's AI generated speech garnered millions of views on social media platforms, his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf said.

In the audio, the voice replicating Khan’s was heard praising his supporters and his social media followers.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced the election schedule late on December 15 night after the Supreme Court suspended an order by the Lahore High Court (LHC) on the appointment of bureaucrats as Returning Officers (ROs).

The Federal Investigation Agency registered the cipher case on August 15 on the charges of violating the secret laws of the country.

The ECP has fixed indictment of Khan on December 13 at the Adiala jail.

Imran’s decision to appoint Gohar Ali Khan as chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has surprised everyone. Gohar’s election is widely seen as a stop-gap arrangement and he is expected to hand over the chairmanship to Imran, once the latter is out of jail.

According to the charges, Khan and Bibi obtained billions of rupees and land worth dozens of acres from Bahria Town Ltd of Malik Riaz Hussain for legalising Rs50 billion that was returned to the country by the UK.

Khan has been in charge of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, since he founded it in 1996.

PTI elects Barrister Gohar Ali Khan as chairman ahead of deadline, securing the 'bat' as its election symbol. Imran Khan remains jailed.

The 71-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party chief has been incarcerated in the high-security jail in Rawalpindi since September 26 in various cases.

Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party sought directives for respondents to give a level playing field to all political parties for upcoming general elections and hold free and fair polls under judicial oversight through the appointment of judicial officers as district returning officers.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) upheld the indictment when challenged by the cricketer-turned-politician.

Khan, who served as prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022, is accused of misusing the contents of the cipher to build a narrative that his government was ousted due to a conspiracy hatched by the US, a charge denied by Washington.

Khan and several of his party leaders have been facing numerous cases since the ouster of the party from power in April 2022 and later in the wake of the May 9 violence.

Khan, 71, and his close ally ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, 67, were on Monday indicted by the special court on charges of leaking state secrets, in another blow to the jailed leaders who could now face a possible death sentence.

A disagreement between Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif's men escalated into a full-blown physical fight on live television.

Cricket is often defined as a game with three departments- batting, bowling and fielding. A fourth aspect, however, does not get talked about is captaincy.

Special court Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, who heard the bail applications of Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, announced the reserved verdict after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party counsels completed their arguments.

In his letter to CEC Sikandar Sultan Raja, President Alvi cited Article 48(5) of the Constitution, which he said: "empowers and mandates the president to appoint a date not later than 90 days from the date of the dissolution, for the holding of a general election to the Assembly".

During an in-camera hearing, Judge Abual Hasnat Muhammad Zulqarnain of the Islamabad ATC-1, who was recently appointed as a judge of a special court handling cases under the Official Secrets Act, 1923, was informed by the prosecution that Khan had challenged both the special court’s jurisdiction and his jail trial in the IHC.