The capital police have registered a case against at least 30 unidentified individuals wearing uniforms of law enforcement agencies who had whisked away Mirza Murad Akbar – brother of ex-PM Imran Khan’s accountability aide Shahzad Akbar – from his house in Sector F-10/4 last week.

The Shalimar police registered the case on the complaint of SI Ghulam Murtaza after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) summoned the heads of the capital police and Rangers in connection with the abduction of Akbar.

On June 2, the IHC asked Inspector General of Police (IGP) Akbar Nasir Khan and the Rangers director general as well as the interior secretary to appear before the court on June 5 in connection with the disappearance of Murad Akbar. The court had warned that it could also summon the interior minister and prime minister if the authorities failed to recover the brother of the former cabinet member.

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The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) during a comprehensive visit to Adiala jail has found no evidence of inhuman or derogatory treatment of detained political workers.

The team was visiting the jail in response to reports of alleged torture and inhumane treatment of the political workers.

NCHR said that the visit aimed to investigate the veracity of these allegations, to gauge the conditions of confinement, whether such prisoners had been tortured or not, and to check on the medical records of the prisoners to ascertain whether they were screened for illnesses or denied any of their rights and privileges as per law.

In a statement the NCHR said perusal of the medical reports of women who had been arrested and were no longer in jail revealed that during screening (prior to incarceration) some bruises, few abrasions and in one case a fractured finger was recorded in the jail register.

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Former PTI leader Hashim Dogar has claimed that over two dozen like-minded party deserters would meet to chalk out their future course of action. He, however, declared that these members would do politics against the PML-N and PPP.

Sources said Mr Dogar, along with another party deserter Murad Raas, were spearheading the move to bring like-minded politicians under one banner and planned to hold their first meeting to discuss the new political faction’s formation.

“Our objective is to create a separate group comprising former friends of PTI,” Mr Dogar, a former home minister, was quoted as saying in the media.

He said he would be able to unveil the final action plan and further details about the new political group after the meeting.

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The Punjab police have said that they will challenge the Lahore court’s decision to discharge PTI leader Yasmin Rashid in the Jinnah House attack case.

PTI ally and Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid has warned that the “plus-minus” formula will create more instability in the country.

Referring to Jahangir Khan Tarin’s efforts to poach former PTI leaders, he said that “it won’t be easy to make reverse disqualifications and form a new party”.

In a video shared on PTI’s official Twitter account, anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan’s father said, “It is my fault … I taught my children to always speak the truth … hang me.”

The remarks come as the whereabouts of the journalist remain unknown since his arrest on May 11.

PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi’s lawyer, Rana Intezar, has told Dawn.com that the former Punjab chief minister will be presented in a district court on Sunday (May 4) in Lahore in a case registered by the Anti-Corruption Establishment.

The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has shifted PTI President Parvez Elahi from Gujranwala to its headquarters in Lahore, ACE spokesperson Abdul Wahid has told Dawn.com.