RAWALPINDI: The special court on Tuesday took up the hearing of cipher case registered against former prime minister and PTI chief Imran Khan and vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Adiala jail.
Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain was expected to indict the two jailed leaders of the PTI. But it emerged today that the copies of the charge sheet were not handed over to the two in the last hearing.
Today, when the hearing started in the jail, lawyers of the defence and the two jailed leaders of the embattled PTI appeared before the judge.
Copies of the charge sheet were distributed among them and the court later adjourned hearing for a week.
Earlier, while talking to reporters outside the jail, FIA special prosecutor Shah Khawar said today the court would indict the former prime minister and the ex- foreign minister in the cipher case.
Imran had claimed that America was involved in a conspiracy to oust him from power in 2021. He had based his allegation on a cipher sent back from Washington by the then Pakistani ambassador.
Khan had claimed that the cipher was about a meeting between a senior US official and the ambassador in which the former had threatened Pakistan’s isolation in case Imran was not removed.
Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been held in the Adiala jail in the cipher case in which they are accused of making public a secret document sent by Pakistan’s ambassador to the US and then misplacing it.
Their counsel has however rejected the charges and said the contents were revealed by the FIA itself and that the cipher was still available in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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