As a result of the decision made by the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the government should not proceed with its plan to put former Prime Minister Imran Khan on trial in jail for the cypher case, in which he is accused of divulging state secrets.
Khan asserts that there was a scheme by the United States to remove him from his position as prime minister, and he bases this assertion on what he claims to be official correspondence between Washington and Islamabad. Khan goes on to state that his motion of no confidence in the parliamentary body, which he submitted in April 2022, was a component of this approach.
The United States government has dropped the charges made against Khan. Khan had presented a letter to a protester the previous year, claiming that it was from an international organisation that demanded that his administration be overturned or removed from power. Khan asserted that the letter was a covert diplomatic message from the United States that was intended to scare him by threatening to hurt him if he brought Russia any closer to him.
At this time, the administration is charging Khan with intentionally leaking government information in order to profit himself. On the 21st of August, in accordance with the Official Secrets Act of 1923, a dedicated court was constituted in order to hear the case completely behind closed doors.
The trial will take place in prison due to “security concerns,” according to the notification that the Ministry of Justice sent out prior to the initial hearing on August 29. Representatives of the public or members of the media are not permitted to attend any court sessions that take place in jail.
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According to Geo News, as reported, “the Islamabad High Court on Tuesday nullified the August 29 notification for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s jail trial in the cypher case.”
According to all of the most prominent Pakistani media outlets, the International Humanitarian Court (IHC) issued a brief verdict and stated that it would offer a more comprehensive ruling at a later time.
The decision of the government to hold the trial in a private prison was an issue that Khan’s legal team did not agree with since they believed that Khan would not be able to receive a fair trial.
Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party submitted an appeal to the Islamabad High Court a month ago, but Chief Justice Aamir Farooq determined that the government’s jail trial was not intentional.
Following the filing of an intra-court appeal by Khan’s legal team, the Islamabad High Court made the decision to postpone the beginning of the prison trial.
The agreement between Pakistan and a real estate developer was that Pakistan would allow Khan to complete his prison sentence this week in exchange for an additional contract worth £190 million.
After being found guilty in August of failing to declare assets obtained from the sale of gifts from the government while he was serving as prime minister, Khan was given a sentence of three years in the Adiala jail located in Rawalpindi.
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