Overview
- Judge Arshad Javed dismissed all three interim bail applications on non-prosecution grounds.
- The court also rejected Omar Ayub’s request for a one-day exemption from personal appearance.
- The FIRs allege Ayub’s involvement in burning police vehicles in Gulberg, setting a container ablaze at Kalma Chowk, and attacking Islamabad Police at Zaman Park.
- In August, a Faisalabad Anti-Terrorism Court sentenced Ayub and 16 other PTI leaders to 10 years in a case over an attack on Rana Sanaullah’s house.
- Non-bailable arrest warrants for Ayub and other PTI leaders in May 9-related cases remain in effect.