Cipher case: Pak special court orders ex-PM Imran Khan & ex-Foreign Minister to be presented in Federal Judicial Complex on Nov 28, 2023
A Pakistani Special Court on Thursday the 23rd November 2023, ordered local authorities to present, presently jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the Federal Judicial Complex, Islamanad on November 28, 2023 for the hearing of the cipher case.
Special Court Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain issued the directive while hearing the case at Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday the 21st Nov 2023, declared null and void the in-prison trial of the duo former Prime Minister & ex-Foreign Minister on procedural grounds and also declared that the proceedings conducted so far were vitiated.
A two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court issued its reserved judgment on an intra-court appeal by Imran Khan against the single bench verdict of the same court that had turned down the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party Chairman’s appeal against his trial in Rawalpindi’s high-security Adiala Jail, where he is currently detained.