- Cypher case adjourned without proceedings till Nov 21
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was granted a four-day permission on Friday to interrogate former premier Imran Khan inside Adiala jail in the £190 million settlement case.
The Adiala jail witnessed a yet another flurry of activity as Bushra Bibi’s lawyer, Sardar Latif Khosa, the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) team, and accountability court judge Muhammad Bashir, converged for in-prison proceedings in the £190 million pound case against the ex-premier and his wife Bushra Bibi.
During today’s hearing, the accountability court also granted Bushra Bibi interim bail in the case till November 21 after NAB’s investigation officer informed that the chairman had not issued arrest warrants against her.
However, the court directed the NAB official to submit a clarify the matter of arrest warrants against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief’s wife.
The hearing was adjourned till November 21.
Cypher case adjourned without proceedings till Nov 21
The special court adjourned hearing of the cypher case against former premier and PTI Chairman Imran Khan without any proceedings till November 21.
Special Court Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain has been conducting trial of PTI Chairman Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cypher leaking case registered under the Official Secrets Act.
The court proceedings of the case were not held on Friday as the Islamabad High Court on Thursday extended the stay order against the jail trial of the PTI Chairman in the cypher case.
The court had halted the proceedings of the trial court on Tuesday, seeking information about the “circumstances” that prompted the trial to be conducted in the high-security Adiala Jail.
During hearing on Thursday, the court approved an extension in the stay order on the request of Imran Khan’s lawyer Salman Akram Raja until Monday, November 20.
Justice Miangul Hassan remarked that they would hear the appeal on Monday at 11:00am and would conclude the case then.
Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Awan objected to the admissibility of Imran Khan’s intra-court appeal against his jail trial in the US cypher case by the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
Chairman PTI’s wife, his sisters Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan also attended the hearing. Imran’s co-accused, former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s, wife Mehreen Qureshi, and daughter Mehrabano Qureshi also attended the hearing at Adiala jail.
FIA Special Prosecutor Zulfiqar Abbasi Naqvi, addressing the media outside the jail, revealed that the court’s decision came following the IHC’s order.
