A three-member bench headed by Justice Shahid Waheed and comprising Justice Naeem Afghan and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim will hear the pleas.
The Registrar’s Office has issued notices to all relevant parties and their counsels.
Imran Khan has been in jail since August 2023 and faces several cases, including corruption and terrorism-related charges, following his ouster as prime minister through a no-confidence vote in April 2022. Khan and PTI have repeatedly denied the allegations.
The development comes as PTI prepares for a long march towards Islamabad on September 27.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has said the PTI leadership and Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) alliance are on board with the planned march.
Afridi said the date was jointly decided by the party’s provincial and central leadership and its allied group. He clarified that the immediate objective of the march would be to secure access to Imran Khan, rather than seek his release through the protest.
“All our political leadership, the provincial leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf across all provinces, and central, and along with that the alliance too, Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan — yes, all of them are on board,” he said.
PTI links parliamentary participation to meeting with Imran
Opposition Leader in the Senate Allama Raja Nasir Abbas said PTI could return to parliamentary standing committees if the government facilitated a meeting between party leaders and Imran Khan.
Speaking to journalists, Raja Nasir said that if the government was serious about negotiations, it should arrange a meeting with the PTI founder.
He accused the government of creating ambiguity over Imran Khan’s health in an attempt to create divisions within the party.
Raja Nasir said he had previously met Imran on a court order and would continue to stand by the PTI founder.
He also disclosed that the opposition had taken a detailed negotiation plan to Imran at Adiala Jail after holding a meeting at KP House.
According to Raja Nasir, PTI had rejected holding negotiations at the Prime Minister’s House or the National Assembly speaker’s office because the party did not recognise the government as legitimate.
However, he said PTI was prepared to negotiate in the Constitution Room of Parliament House if the government demonstrated seriousness.
“If the government wants parliament to survive, it should arrange a meeting with the PTI founder,” he said.
Raja Nasir also agreed with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s assessment that the country’s political system had suffered a breakdown, but criticised the proposed solution as unlawful.
“Naqvi correctly identified the disease — but the medicine suggested is unlawful,” he said, arguing that Pakistan needed a genuinely representative government.
