Will Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi Walk Free After Acquittal in Cipher Case?

 IHC upsets top PTI pioneers' conviction in figure case containing charges of spilling state mysteries

June 03, 2024

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) organizer Imran Khan and party's Bad habit Director Shah Mahmood Qureshi got significant help in the code case as the Islamabad High Court (IHC) cleared them of charges of spilling state mysteries and abusing a strategic grouped record.

Both the pioneers were condemned to 10 years each in jail for the situation in January this year.

In spite of being allowed bail, Khan and Qureshi are probably not going to walk liberated from jail as the two of them are detained in different cases also.

Khan, the dismissed head of the state who was expelled from power through the resistance's no-certainty movement in April 2022, has been having to deal with a large number of penalties going from defilement to psychological warfare since his expulsion as the chief.

He has been in jail since August last year after he was condemned in the Toshakhana case and accordingly sentenced in different cases too including figure and unlawful marriage cases.

Because of his conviction in an unlawful marriage case, the previous head will stay in the slammer in spite of getting help in a few cases.

Likewise, Qureshi, who was unfamiliar pastor during the PTI residency from 2018-2022, was reserved in eight cases connected with May 9 last week.

Both party pioneers are at present detained in Rawalpindi's Adiala Prison.

Responding to the decision, PTI Director Counselor Gohar Khan trusted that the party organizer would before long walk liberated from the jail as a "outlandish case reached its decision".

"We will commend this triumph," another of his legal counselors, Ali Zafar, said in a television interview, adding that different cases looked by Khan would bring about vindications as well.

"It's a colossal political and lawful triumph," columnist and political expert Mazhar Abbas told Reuters, however forewarned that it would be untimely to say that Khan would be delivered at any point in the near future.

Khan is likewise named as a denounced in a few different cases, including charges of prompting savagery against the state.