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Imran Khan's sentencing in the Toshakhana case was suspended by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday, but his conviction and disqualification remain in effect while the court considers the main appeal.
The IHC made public the brief decision it had reserved a day earlier ordering the authorities to grant the PTI leader bail. 
In the detailed verdict that would be delivered later, the court stated that it would go into more depth about the justifications for suspending the three-year term.
The PTI leader was ordered by the court to provide a Rs. 100,000 surety bond as collateral for the bail. 

According to Barrister Gohar, a member of PTI's legal team, the surety bonds for Khan's bail in the amount of Rs. 100,000 have been created in accordance with the court's instructions and will be presented once a copy of the order has been obtained.

The decision is a significant success for Khan in his legal battle against his conviction and sentence imposed in the Toshakhana case.

Khan was found guilty of corrupt practices related to the state gift repository earlier this month, and a district and sessions court in the federal capital sentenced him to three years in prison and assessed a fine of Rs100,000 as punishment. This decision disqualified Khan from running in the upcoming elections.

Immediately following the trial court's decision on August 5, the former prime minister—who has been barred from holding any public office as a result of the conviction—was detained and has since been held at Attock jail. 

Following his conviction in the Toshakhana case brought by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Khan filed a plea with the high court contesting the ADSJ Humayun Dilawar's ruling.

The hearing on the plea was finished and the judgement was reserved on Monday by a division bench made up of Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri and IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq.

Before the hearings came to a close, Amjad Pervaiz, the attorney for the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), submitted his arguments in opposition to the PTI leader's requests.

To support the plea, PTI attorney Sardar Latif Khan Khosa emphasized three points: the suspension of his client's brief sentence, a jurisdictional flaw, and illegal authorization.

During the hearing on Monday, the electoral body's attorney, however, described the opposition to the maintainability of the ECP's lawsuit as being without merit.

He asserted that the defense's witnesses were irrelevant since they were tax advisors, whereas the complainant had charged the former prime minister with filing a false declaration of assets.

He also objected to the motion to suspend Khan's sentence, arguing that the court's discretion should be used wisely as this was not a question of right.