The special court in the cipher case has sentenced PTI founder Imran Khan and Shah Mehmood Qureshi to 10 years in prison.
Special Court Judge Abul Hasanat Zulqarnain heard the cipher case against PTI founder Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Adiala Jail. Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood were present in the court in this regard.
During the hearing, the judge said that your lawyers are not present, you were provided with the State Defense Council, on this the lawyers Safai said that we will cross-examine.
The judge told the lawyers clearly that you have mistrusted me.
During the hearing, Questionnaire 342 was given to Shah Mehmood Qureshi and founder of PTI, on which both accused said that our lawyers are not present, how will we record the statement.
Imran Khan's statement of 342
Imran Khan came to the rostrum to record the statement of 342 in front of the special court in which he said that the cipher was in my office, the responsibility of the principal secretary and the military secretary, I want to tell how the actual conspiracy took place.
Founder PTI said that during his 3 and a half years as Prime Minister, only one cipher document went missing, he asked the Military Secretary to inquire about the disappearance of the cipher.
Hussain Haqqani lobbied against me at the behest of General Bajwa: Imran Khan
Imran Khan further said that the elected Prime Minister was expelled with 23 million votes, General Bajwa and Donald Lowe were involved in the conspiracy against the elected Prime Minister, Hussain Haqqani lobbied against me on the request of General Bajwa.
He further said in his statement that a three-member committee was formed to meet General Bajwa, Asad Umar, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Parvez Khattak were included in the committee. Jauge, when he came back from Russia, Shah Mahmood Qureshi informed me with a cipher message.
I had several meetings with General Bajwa in this regard: Founder of PTI
According to founder PTI, during this time I had several meetings with Bajwa
The court, after recording the statement of Imran Khan 342 and giving the decision of the case after a short hearing, said that Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood are sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment with hard labor in the cipher case.
The judge delivered a brief oral judgment on the case.
It hould be noted that earlier Imran Khan had challenged the appointment of government lawyer Safai in the Islamabad High Court in the cipher case.
What's the deal with the cipher?
Chairman PTI Imran Khan had created a conspiracy narrative against his government based on the messages or ciphers of the Pakistani ambassador to the US, in which Imran Khan had claimed that the US had a hand in the overthrow of his government, but national security. In the meeting of the committee, the position of the PTI government regarding the cipher has been denied. In addition, an audio leak of Imran Khan and his former secretary Azam Khan regarding the cipher was revealed in which Imran Khan was heard saying said that 'Now we just have to play, not to name America, just to play that on top of that this date was already there, to which Azam Khan replied that I was thinking that there was a cipher on top of this. Let's have a meeting'
After that, the federal cabinet entrusted the investigation of the matter to the FIA.
Azam Khan was the Principal Secretary to the then Prime Minister Imran Khan during the PTI regime and was considered very close to the Prime Minister.
Regarding the cipher, former DG ISPR Lt. Gen. Babar Iftikhar said that an attempt was made to dramatize the cipher and rumors and false news were spread with the aim of gaining political advantage.