Islamabad: The former ruling party on Monday celebrated its victory in the legal battle against Imran Khan after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) acquitted the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader in an encryption case. and the release of Shah Mahmud Qureshi.
Commenting on the IHC verdict, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said today that the case was concluded as “baseless and baseless”. He said that the founder of PTI has been jailed for 10 months in the encryption case, which controversy first emerged on March 27, 2022.
He claimed that the former prime minister would soon be released from prison and hoped for justice for the parties joining the judiciary.
The politician said that all “vengeance-based political motives” against the PTI leader would also be removed.
Similarly, pro-PTI MPs in the Punjab Assembly raised slogans after the IHC acquitted the PTI founder and the party’s vice-president in the encryption case.
PTI MPs left the table in the House in support of the former prime minister.
In relief to the former ruling party, the IHC set aside the decision of Imran and Qureshi in the infamous cipher case involving the alleged misuse and misappropriation of a secret diplomatic document.
IHC Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb announced the court’s summary judgment challenging the case after it was adjourned today over the encryption issue.
The PTI founder and the party’s vice-chairman were sentenced to 10 years each in an encryption case in January this year.
The case concerns allegations that the former prime minister leaked the contents of a secret cable sent by the country’s ambassador in Washington to the government in Islamabad.
The latest relief for the PTI founder comes days after the IHC on May 15 approved his bail in the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) £190 million bail application.
