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Pakistan: Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan files petition seeking bail in cipher case
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan‘s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday filed a petition within the Supreme Court docket searching for bail within the cipher case, difficult the rejection of his post-arrest bail pleas within the case by the IslamabadExcessive Court docket. Khan, 71, was arrested in August after a case was filed towards him by the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) for disclosing a secret diplomatic cable (cipher) despatched by the nation’s embassy in Washington in March final 12 months.
A particular courtroom in Pakistan final week indicted him alongside together with his shut ally ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi within the case and on Tuesday adjourned the listening to of the cipher case till November 7 with out recording statements of any of the ten witnesses.
The petition was filed after the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) final week rejected Khan’s petitions searching for post-arrest bail within the cipher case and the dismissal of its first data report (FIR).
Khan, via his counsel Salman Safdar, challenged the IHC verdict.
The FIA, on September 30, filed the cost sheet towards Khan and Qureshi to a particular courtroom fashioned underneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act, 1923.
The FIA invoked within the cost sheet sections 5 and 9 of the Official Secrets and techniques Act, which can result in a loss of life sentence or two to 14 years’ imprisonment if convicted. The 2 had been indicted on October 23.
Khan, who served as prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022, is accused of “misuse the contents of the cipher” to construct a story that his authorities was ousted attributable to a overseas conspiracy hatched by the US, a cost denied by Washington.
The cost sheet added that Qureshi “aided and abetted” Khan and, due to this fact, was accountable for the act in the identical method.
Khan’s authorities was eliminated on April 9 final 12 months, whereas the cable was despatched by the nation’s embassy in Washington in March final 12 months.
The cricketer-turned-politician and several other of his get together leaders have been going through quite a few circumstances because the ouster of the get together from energy in April 2022 and later within the wake of the Could 9 violence.
Greater than 150 circumstances have been registered towards Khan since his ouster from energy in April final 12 months.
Khan was ousted via a vote of no-confidence in April 2022. He was incarcerated on August 5 this 12 months after an Islamabad courtroom sentenced him to 3 years in jail within the Toshakhana case. He was lodged within the Attock District Jail to serve his jail time period.
Later, his sentence was suspended by the Islamabad Excessive Court docket, however then he was arrested within the cipher case and remained within the Attock jail on judicial remand. He was later shifted to the high-security Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.
A particular courtroom in Pakistan final week indicted him alongside together with his shut ally ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi within the case and on Tuesday adjourned the listening to of the cipher case till November 7 with out recording statements of any of the ten witnesses.
The petition was filed after the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) final week rejected Khan’s petitions searching for post-arrest bail within the cipher case and the dismissal of its first data report (FIR).
Khan, via his counsel Salman Safdar, challenged the IHC verdict.
The FIA, on September 30, filed the cost sheet towards Khan and Qureshi to a particular courtroom fashioned underneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act, 1923.
The FIA invoked within the cost sheet sections 5 and 9 of the Official Secrets and techniques Act, which can result in a loss of life sentence or two to 14 years’ imprisonment if convicted. The 2 had been indicted on October 23.
Khan, who served as prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to April 2022, is accused of “misuse the contents of the cipher” to construct a story that his authorities was ousted attributable to a overseas conspiracy hatched by the US, a cost denied by Washington.
The cost sheet added that Qureshi “aided and abetted” Khan and, due to this fact, was accountable for the act in the identical method.
Khan’s authorities was eliminated on April 9 final 12 months, whereas the cable was despatched by the nation’s embassy in Washington in March final 12 months.
The cricketer-turned-politician and several other of his get together leaders have been going through quite a few circumstances because the ouster of the get together from energy in April 2022 and later within the wake of the Could 9 violence.
Greater than 150 circumstances have been registered towards Khan since his ouster from energy in April final 12 months.
Khan was ousted via a vote of no-confidence in April 2022. He was incarcerated on August 5 this 12 months after an Islamabad courtroom sentenced him to 3 years in jail within the Toshakhana case. He was lodged within the Attock District Jail to serve his jail time period.
Later, his sentence was suspended by the Islamabad Excessive Court docket, however then he was arrested within the cipher case and remained within the Attock jail on judicial remand. He was later shifted to the high-security Adiala jail in Rawalpindi.
