Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan made a virtual appearance before the Supreme Court through a videolink from prison in connection with a case regarding amendments to the country's anticorruption law.
The court appearance of the 71-year-old leader was not livestreamed on the top court's website or aired on the country's news channels. Al Jazeera reached out to Information Minister Attaullah Tarar for his comments on why the hearing was not broadcast on news channels or the Supreme Court website, but did not receive any response.
Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) accused Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of collusion with the government for not allowing the hearing from being broadcast to the people. Our party believes that the chief justice of the country is in connivance with the security establishment and their aim is to hurt PTI in every possible manner, the main opposition party's Aamir Mughal told Al Jazeera.
Shortly after Khan lost a no-confidence vote in parliament in April 2022, the government that succeeded him amended the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, clipping the powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Pakistan's main anticorruption agency.
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