The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has fixed the appeals of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi against their convictions in the £190 million case for hearing on November 10. According to the cause list issued by the IHC registrar's office on Wednesday, a division bench of Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar and Justice Muhammad Asif will hear the appeals.
The court had earlier sought arguments from the convicts' counsel on the appeals. At the previous hearing, proceedings were adjourned without the matter being taken up, at the request of Imran Khan's lawyer, Barrister Salman Safdar.
In January 2025, an Islamabad accountability court sentenced Imran Khan to 14 years and Bushra Bibi to seven years in prison in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau.
The case concerns the Al-Qadir Trust, set up in 2018, which runs a university outside Islamabad. The government alleges the trust received land worth millions of dollars from a real estate tycoon in return for the then government using funds repatriated from the UK to settle the businessman's fines instead of depositing the money in the national exchequer. Imran Khan denies the allegations, saying neither he nor his wife benefited financially from the trust or related transactions.