{
  "id": 12354921,
  "title": "Al-Qadir Trust case: PTI lawyers approach FCC for early hearing of Bushra Bibi’s appeal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/al-qadir-trust-case-pti-lawyers-approach-fcc-for-early-hearing-of",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-06T10:26:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn",
    "slug": "dawn",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2035161/al-qadir-trust-case-pti-lawyers-approach-fcc-for-early-hearing-of-bushra-bibis-appeal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Senior members of the PTI legal team reached out to the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on Tuesday in an effort to expedite the criminal appeal filed by former First Lady Bushra Bibi in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case. Bushra, who received a seven-year prison sentence in January of the previous year, is currently incarcerated at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail. The court had found both Imran and Bushra guilty of providing undue advantages to property mogul Malik Riaz in order to recover his illicit funds from the United Kingdom. Initially, the two, including Bushra, had requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to suspend her sentence in July of the previous year, but the court rejected their plea in May. On Tuesday, under the guidance of PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja and Barrister Salman Safdar, the lawyers made a request to the FCC to expedite the hearing of Bushra’s criminal appeal. The FCC office confirmed to Dawn that the appeal would be assigned within the week and scheduled accordingly, according to Advocate Intezar Hussain Panjutha.",
  "summary": "ISLAMABAD: Senior members of the PTI legal team on Tuesday approached the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) seeking early fixation of a criminal appeal filed by former first lady Bushra Bibi in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case . The former first lady was handed a seven-year sentence in the case in January last year, and is currently imprisoned at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail. The court found…",
  "key_points": [
    "PTI lawyers contact FCC to speed up Bushra Bibi’s appeal.",
    "Former First Lady Bushra Bibi sentenced to 7 years for Al-Qadir Trust case.",
    "FCC to assign appeal hearing within the week."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Dawn - Pakistan",
        "title": "Al-Qadir Trust case: PTI lawyers approach FCC for early hearing of Bushra Bibi’s appeal",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/al-qadir-trust-case-pti-lawyers-approach-fcc-for-early-hearing-of-12355429",
        "published": "2026-10-06T10:26:20.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}