Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi arraigned in cipher case

A extraordinary court built up beneath the Official Privileged insights Act on Monday prosecuted previous prime serve Imran Khan and ex-foreign serve Shah Mahmood Qureshi within the cipher case.

The cipher case relates to a conciliatory record that allegedly went lost from Imran's ownership. The PTI charges that the record contained a risk from the Joined together States to remove Imran from office.

The PTI chief was sentenced and sentenced to three years in jail within the Toshakhana unite case on Admirable 5. The IHC had suspended his sentence on Eminent 29 but he remained in jail since he was on legal remand within the cipher case.

On September 30, the Government Investigation Agency (FIA) had submitted a challan — a charge sheet — within the uncommon court naming Qureshi as the foremost denounced within the cipher case.

The court had chosen that the two PTI pioneers would be prosecuted within the case on October 17. In any case, final week the court had put off the prosecution till today's hearing.

Nowadays, Uncommon Court Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain conducted the hearing at Rawalpindi's Adiala Imprison. The court formally commenced the trial within the case and summoned the witnesses at the another hearing on Oct 27.

The charge sheet read out by Judge Hasnat, a duplicate of which is accessible with Dawn.com, expressed that Imran “illegally held and wrongly communicated” the cipher.

“The said information/cipher was relating to best mystery data which were inter-se two states i.e., Joined together States and Pakistan,” it said.

Concurring to the charge sheet, the PTI chief, whereas holding the office of the prime serve, utilized the cipher in a “prohibited put (jalsa)” and “willfully communicated” the mystery data to unapproved people, which was against the “interest of the State of Pakistan”.

“The cipher was depended to you in certainty by the Service of Foreign Undertakings [but] you utilized the archive whereas keeping it in your possession for the good thing about your individual political designs and compromised the cipher and the security framework of Pakistan,” it peruses.

The charge sheet encourage expressed that Imran contrived to “misuse the substance of the cipher” at a assembly in his Bani Celebration home on Walk 28, 2022. It included that Imran kept the cipher in his possession and never returned it to the outside service.

The charge sheet included that Qureshi “aided and abetted” Imran and thus was liable for the act within the same way.

Prior, talking to the media exterior Adiala, FIA Uncommon Prosecutor Shah Khawar said the two PTI pioneers were display amid the declaration of the prosecution, including that encourage procedures had been put off till Oct 27 when the witnesses would be delivered.

PTI to challenge prosecution in tall court

In the interim, the PTI chairman's attorney, Advocate Umair Niazi, told the media that his client had denied the crime. He said the court's arrange would be challenged within the tall court.

He said that Imran had addressed the charges against him. The lawyer cited the PTI chairman as saying that a scheme was brought forth against him, his government was toppled and there were no minutes of the assembly in address.

He said that Imran was as of now mindful of the “London plan”, the point of which was to “bulldoze” the PTI. “Nawaz Sharif plays by colluding with the umpire. He cannot challenge decisions until he has an umpire of his choice,” the legal counselor said.

The attorney said that concurring to Imran, “If a enormous cheat is to be released, then the accused in Adiala imprison should also be released”.

Talking to correspondents, Advocate Usman Riaz Gul, moreover a part of Imran's legitimate group, said they educated the court that indeed in spite of the fact that the prosecution date was settled, the suspects seem not be prosecuted until the total explanation of witnesses and case reminder were received.

He included that the court rejected the defendants' complaints and arraigned Imran and Qureshi.

“PTI chairman and Qureshi had expressed that they could not react to the charges until all the records related to the case were received,” the legal counselor said.

The attorney further said the PTI chairman's ask for a bike for exercise in Adiala Jail was affirmed.

“Special Court Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain coordinated the imprison administration to give bikes within the jail,” he included.