On January 30, Imran Khan was sentenced to 10 years in jail for leaking delicate state secrets and techniques (File)
Islamabad:
Jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday individually challenged within the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom his sentences within the cipher and Toshakhana corruption circumstances.
Separate petitions have been filed earlier than the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) by way of Barrister Ali Zafar towards Imran Khan’s sentences within the two circumstances. In a simultaneous improvement, Imran Khan’s shut aide and former international minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi additionally challenged his conviction and sentence within the cipher case within the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom.
Each Imran Khan, 71, and Qureshi, 67, have been lodged on the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
The petition on the cipher (secret diplomatic cable) case made the state and Inside Ministry Secretary Yousaf Naseem Khokhar respondents within the case. It urged the excessive courtroom to put aside the conviction and sentence and acquit him of the fees.
On January 30, Imran Khan, the founding father of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf celebration, was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a particular courtroom for leaking delicate state secrets and techniques.
The controversy first emerged on March 27, 2022, when Imran Khan – lower than a month earlier than his ouster in April 2022 – whereas addressing a public rally, waved a letter earlier than the group, claiming that it was a cipher from a international nation that had conspired together with his political rivals to have his authorities overthrown.
Imran Khan didn’t reveal the contents of the letter, nor did he point out the identify of the nation it got here from. However a number of days later, he accused the US of conspiring towards him and alleged that Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Affairs Donald Lu had sought his removing.
The cipher was about former Pakistan ambassador to the US Asad Majeed’s assembly with Lu.
The Toshakhana plea made the state and the accountability bureau respondents and urged the IHC to ”droop the execution of the conviction and sentence” imposed on the cricketer-turned-politician.
On January 31, Imran Khan and his spouse had been sentenced to 14 years in jail every for corruption on expenses of illegally promoting state presents.
The petition contended that the trial courtroom rapidly handed the judgment with out offering the suspect a chance for a good trial.
In the meantime, senior PTI chief Qureshi additionally challenged his conviction and sentence within the cipher case within the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom by way of a plea filed by his legal professionals Ali Bukhari, Taimur Malik, and Salman Safdar.
The previous international minister urged the courtroom to put aside his conviction and acquit him of the fees of creating state secrets and techniques public.
”There may be not a speck of proof that the appellant aided, abetted or facilitated the co-accused in any method,” the petition learn, including that the complainants had failed to point out how Qureshi or ”any co-accused engaged in actions detrimental to nationwide safety or in support of international powers.” Together with Imran Khan, Qureshi too was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail on January 30 within the cipher case, Imran Khan was additionally disqualified from holding any public workplace for 10 years.
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