{"id":97833,"date":"2026-01-19T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97833"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:37:58","slug":"bail-applications-of-pti-leaders-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/bail-applications-of-pti-leaders-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail applications of PTI leaders rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The court rejected the pre-arrest bail applications of PTI leaders, including <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/atc-issues-arrest-warrants-for-omar-ayub-zartaj-gul-zain-qureshi\/\">Omar Ayub<\/a>, in the November 26 protest, Sangjani Jalsa case, and 8 other cases.<\/p>\n<p>The Anti-Terrorism Court rejected bail applications in 7 cases of Zartaj Gul, while in more than 5 cases of Shibli Faraz and Alia Hamza.<\/p>\n<p>The court also rejected the applications of all the accused for exemption from attendance. The court had reserved its decision on the applications for exemption from attendance of the accused.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that cases are registered against PTI leaders in more than 5 different police stations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, former member of the Punjab Assembly and former leader of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-announces-official-optional-holidays-for-2026\/\">PTI<\/a>, Waseem Afzal, has decided to join the People\u2019s Party along with his brother, Gulrez Afzal Chan, a former MPA.<\/p>\n<p>Waseem Afzal Chan was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly in 2008, while Gulrez Afzal Chan was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Both brothers are sons of former provincial minister Haji Afzal Chan and brothers of PPP\u2019s Central Secretary Information and Broadcasting Nadeem Afzal Chan.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations between the two former members of the Punjab Assembly and the PPP leadership have entered the final stages.<\/p>\n<p>Gulrez Afzal Chan was elected as a member of the Punjab Assembly on a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ticket from PP-43 constituency of Mandi Bahauddin in the 2013 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Waseem Afzal Chan contested the 2023 elections as an independent after not getting a PTI ticket, which he lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The court rejected the pre-arrest bail applications of PTI leaders, including Omar Ayub, in the November 26 protest, Sangjani Jalsa case, and 8 other cases. The Anti-Terrorism Court rejected bail applications in 7 cases of Zartaj Gul, while in more than 5 cases of Shibli Faraz and Alia Hamza. The court also rejected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":55448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3101,33767],"class_list":["post-97833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pti-leaders","tag-bail-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97834,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97833\/revisions\/97834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}