Islamabad, June 30 -- The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the maintainability of petitions challenging the alleged solitary confinement of jailed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, reports Dawn.

The petitions, filed by Imran Khan's sister Aleema Khan and Bushra Bibi's daughter Mubashara Khawar Maneka, seek judicial intervention over what they describe as unlawful and prolonged isolation of the two prisoners.

The development comes a day after the IHC removed objections raised by the registrar's office and ordered that the petitions be formally numbered, while leaving the question of maintainability to be decided by the court.

Hearing the matt...