ISLAMABAD: PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday applied for post-arrest bail to the Islamabad High Court following rejection of bail application by the trial court in Missing Cypher Case.
In the bail petition, filed through Barrister Salman Safdar, he requested the court to order his release on bail.
The Special Court Islamabad, established to hear cases under Official Secrets Act, had already rejected Imran Khan’s bail application in Cypher case.
Imran Khan is presently lodged in Attock jail after the Special Court on Wednesday last had extended his judicial remand till September 26 in Cypher case.
The PTI chairman was sent to jail on August 5 following his conviction in Toshakhana case, but the IHC had suspended his sentence. However, the special court had directed Attock jail authorities to keep him in “judicial lockup” in connection with the cipher case.
Cypher Case
The first information report (FIR) was registered on August 15 under the Official Secrets Act. It was registered on the complaint of Home Secretary against PTI Chairman Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while names of former principal secretary Azam Khan and former planning minister Asad Umar were also mentioned.
The FIR stated that the former prime minister and foreign minister distorted the facts of the diplomatic cipher. “A conspiracy was launched to misuse the contents of the cipher to fulfill nefarious purposes”, it added. It further stated that former premier and top diplomat endangered the state interests.
The report claimed that former prime minister asked Azam Khan – the then principal secretary – to “manipulate the contents of cipher”. “The former premier deliberately kept the copy of diplomatic cipher, which was sent to the PM office”, it added.
