{"id":1219,"date":"2022-10-01T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2022-10-01T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T11:05:10","slug":"imran-submits-affidavit-in-contempt-of-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Imran submits affidavit in contempt of court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has submitted the affidavit in the contempt of court case against him for threatening Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry.<br \/>\nAccording to details, the former premier has submitted his affidavit in Islamabad High Court (IHC) in a contempt of court case for passing controversial remarks against Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry.<br \/>\nIn his affidavit, Imran Khan vowed to comply with the statement given on September 22 before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in the last hearing. \u201cI am ready to apologise if the judges think I had crossed a red line,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe PTI Chairman reiterated, \u201cMy intention was not to threaten the female judge. Taking action meant nothing but legal action.\u201d<br \/>\nIt is pertinent to mention here that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) decided not to frame charges against Imran Khan in the contempt of court case against him.<br \/>\nAccording to details, the IHC deferred contempt proceedings against Imran Khan after the former premier expressed the willingness to apologise to Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry.<br \/>\nThe former premier noted that his intentions were not to threaten the female judge. \u201cIt the court says so, I am ready to personally go to the judge and apologise,\u201d he said, adding that he would not repeat something like this in the future.<br \/>\nFollowing this, IHC CJ Athar Minallah remarked that it would not be appropriate to conduct contempt proceedings. The court directed Imran Khan to submit an affidavit in light of his statement to the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has submitted the affidavit in the contempt of court case against him for threatening Additional District and Sessions Judge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}