PESHAWAR: The District Monitoring Officer (DMO) for by-election in NA-31 Peshawar-V adjourned the proceedings till September 15 in a case pertaining to violation of code of conduct by Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister and ministers.

Qazi Babar Irshad advocate appeared before the DMO on behalf of the PTI chief, Saifullah Khan Khalil advocate for the Provincial Minister Anwar Zeb Khan, and Ali Gohar Durrani advocate for provincial ministers Mohammad Iqbal Wazir, Kamran Khan Bangash, Ishtiaq Urmar, Khaleeq-ur-Rehman, Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra and Shaukat Yousafzai.

The counsel requested for the adjournment of the case for submission of written reply due to their engagement in the Supreme Court till September 14.

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The DMO had summoned the PTI chief to explain his position on September 9 over alleged use of official resources for his NA-31 election campaign, while the KP chief minister and provincial ministers were issued notices over participation in the public meeting in violation of the code of conduct announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan for the by-poll.

The Islamabad police on Saturday summoned Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan again to appear before the joint investigation team (JIT) in the terrorism case against him.

The notice was issued to the former prime minister after he failed to appear before the JIT for the probe in the terrorism case against him for threatening Judge Zeba Chaudhry in a public rally.

The notice holds that Khan is on bail in the case till September 12 and the bail was granted on the condition that Khan will cooperate in the investigation and should appear before the investigation team at 5pm today.

“However, in this case, the former prime minister was not cooperating with the JIT and violating the condition,” the notice added.