Published November 21,2023
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A courtroom in Pakistan determined Monday to increase a keep towards the jail trial of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case that accuses him of exposing state secrets and techniques.
A two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) prolonged the keep it gave earlier final week for someday earlier than adjourning the listening to till Tuesday, in response to a courtroom file.
The IHC’s transfer comes after the caretaker Cabinet permitted Khan’s jail trial within the “cipher case,” during which he’s already being tried from a jail within the northeastern garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi in addition to in one other two instances.
The cipher case is expounded to diplomatic communications between Washington and Islamabad, which Khan says was a part of a U.S. conspiracy to topple his authorities.
Khan and former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had been indicted within the cipher case final month. The two pleaded not responsible.
Khan, who served as prime minister of Pakistan from 2018-2022, misplaced a vote of confidence in parliament in April 2022, one yr wanting finishing his time period.
In August this yr, he was sentenced by a trial courtroom in Islamabad for concealing particulars and unlawfully promoting state presents he acquired as prime minister and consequently was barred from holding public workplace for 5 years by the nation’s Election Commission.
The IHC, nonetheless, suspended his sentence and ordered his launch weeks later.
Source: www.anews.com.tr