{"id":12471,"date":"2026-08-24T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=12471"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:10:16","slug":"ihc-grants-pre-arrest-bail-to-pti-leader-seemabia-tahir-in-peca-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=12471","title":{"rendered":"IHC grants pre-arrest bail to PTI leader Seemabia Tahir in PECA case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Seemabia Tahir in a case registered under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Khadim Hussain Somroo approved Seemabia\u2019s bail application and directed her to join the investigation being conducted by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, a trial court had rejected her interim bail after she failed to appear before the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 26, 2024, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi granted bail to Seemabia Tahir in May 9 cases. The ATC judge Ijaz Asif heard the case and granted her the bail.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, on March 16, 2024, the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) also granted interim bail to former MPA Seemabia Tahir Satti in a case related to interference in the state&#8217;s affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision comes in response to a case filed against Seemabia Tahir at the Airport Police Station. Her legal counsel shed light on the intricacies of the case, providing insight into the circumstances surrounding Tahir&#8217;s interim bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seemabia Tahir served as a member of the Punjab Assembly from August 2018 until January 2023 after being elected on a women\u2019s reserved seat on the PTI ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She contested the 2024 National Assembly election from NA-57 Rawalpindi-VI on a PTI ticket but was unsuccessful. Tahir has a Master of Education degree and previously worked as a lecturer at Al-Khair University in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Seemabia Tahir in a case registered under the Prevention of..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Jazbo-Social-Media-Poster-2-60.png",800,956,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Jazbo-Social-Media-Poster-2-60-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Jazbo-Social-Media-Poster-2-60-251x300.png",251,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Jazbo-Social-Media-Poster-2-60-768x918.png",768,918,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Jazbo-Social-Media-Poster-2-60.png",800,956,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Jazbo-Social-Media-Poster-2-60.png",800,956,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pak-Jazbo-Social-Media-Poster-2-60.png",800,956,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12473,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions\/12473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}