The case was adjourned till Thursday at the time of last hearing on September 27.
About fifty activists of the Party, including Naheed Khan MNA, Nayyer Bokhari MNA, Shahzadi Kausar Gillani MLA Azad Kashmir, Senator Farhatullah Babar, Qazi Sultan Mahmood, Syed Ibrar Rizvi, Babar Minhas, Syed Ibn-i-Rivi, Shahnawaz, Shabbir Babar, Jehangir Akhtar, Majeed Niazi and Sohail Rumi, besides others had been charged with storming the Parliament building in 1998 and threatening the National Assembly Speaker.
The case was registered on April 22, 1998 when PPP activists staged a protest rally outside the Parliament House against the anti-terrorism legislation, which gave sweeping powers to the executive.
The demonstrators were forcibly dispersed when the police resorted to baton charge resulting in injury to many Party workers and activists.
The protestors were demanding review of the law. Later the Supreme Court struck down various provisions of the proposed legislation, including the one relating to the setting up of military courts to try terror cases.
A large number of protestors were arrested on the spot and sent to jail. All were initially booked under the anti-terror law against which they were protesting.
Later, however, the government withdrew the terrorism charges and booked the protestors under eight different sections of the Criminal Procedure Code. Defence Counsel Raja Shakeel Abbasi has asked all the Party workers named in the FIR in the case to appear before the court of senior civil judge Islamabad on Thursday.