FCC bars PHC from hearing cases related to PTI workers' preventive detention

Dawn5 November 2026, 08:40 UTCPakistan

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on Thursday restrained the Peshawar High Court (PHC) from hearing cases related to the preventive detention of PTI workers and activists under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO) following the imposition of emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The directive was issued by a two-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan and including Justice Aamer Farooq. The bench took up a set of petitions challenging interim bail of the detainees, granted by the PHC against surety bonds of Rs100,000 each. The PHC had issue

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