{"id":11444,"date":"2025-06-23T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2025-06-23T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T21:05:04","slug":"ppp-leaders-bail-extended-till-july-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=11444","title":{"rendered":"PPP leaders&#8217; bail extended till July 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Additional District and Sessions Judge Peshawar, Ismatullah Wazir, has extended the interim bail of Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP) Central Secretary General Humayun Khan and PPP Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa President Muhammad Ali Shah Bacha until July 12. The two leaders are accused in a case related to a protest on Khyber Road and the alleged torching of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest camp.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, the petitioners&#8217; counsel, Advocate Gohar Rehman Khattak, appeared before the court and argued that his clients belong to a political party and were booked for staging a peaceful protest against the provincial government. He stated that protesting is a constitutional right, and his clients were exercising this right when the police responded with baton charges and tear gas, followed by criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>The court, after hearing arguments, extended their interim bail and adjourned the proceedings until July 12.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after the hearing, PPP Central Secretary General Humayun Khan said, &#8220;We have been vindicated in past cases and will be again. FIRs were registered against us during the &#8216;Save the Province&#8217; movement. The PPP will continue to raise its voice against this exploitative system on every platform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He strongly condemned the recent US attack on Iran, expressing solidarity with the Iranian people. &#8220;PPP stands with the people of Iran. We will continue to play our role in safeguarding the rights of the people in this province.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He criticized PTI for its &#8220;politics of revenge&#8221; and said, &#8220;We have faced their political victimization before and will do so again. We are not afraid of these fabricated cases and will not abandon our struggle for public rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Humayun Khan also paid tribute to PPP leaders and workers for maintaining peace despite the provincial government&#8217;s &#8220;brutal crackdown&#8221; during the &#8216;Save the Province&#8217; protest. &#8220;PPP workers have always raised their voice against oppression,&#8221; he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional District and Sessions Judge Peshawar, Ismatullah Wazir, has extended the interim bail of Pakistan People&#8217;s Party (PPP) Central Secretary General Humayun Khan and PPP Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa President Muhammad Ali Shah Bacha until July 12. The two leaders are accused in a case related to a protest on Khyber Road and the alleged torching of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}