ISLAMABAD: The embattled PTI has said it was going to challenge the ban imposed by a special court on media coverage of the proceedings of the cipher case inside the Adiala jail.
PTI founder and former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi are charged with violating the official secret act by sharing a cipher sent by Pakistan’s ambassador from the US in 2022.
The PTI has said it was going to challenge the ban imposed by a special court on media coverage of the proceedings of the cipher case inside the Adiala jail.
A division bench of Islamabad High Court on November 14 had issued a stay order in the trial of Imran Khan in Adiala jail in the cipher case and ordered that the proceedings should be conducted in an open court.
However, two days back, special court judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnian accepted the public prosecutor’s application not to allow the general public to witness the hearing in the jail.
The judge also banned coverage of the proceedings on mainstream or even social media. The court allowed the family of Khan and Qureshi to witness the proceedings.
The PTi said that it was going to challenge the ban in the high court, adding the special court had overstepped its jurisdiction and the ban was against the law.
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