ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will stay in a high-security jail for a minimum of some other two weeks despite being granted bail the day before today, as an anti-terrorism court docket prolonged his detention Wednesday in a case involving the unveiling of an authentic secret file, a protection attorney mentioned.
The anti-terrorism court docket introduced the verdict after a short lived closed-door listening to that used to be held at a high-security Attock jail within the japanese Punjab province, attorney Intazar Hussain Panjutha mentioned.
The subsequent court docket listening to will be on Sept. 2, he mentioned.
Khan’s different attorney, Salman Safdar, instructed journalists that he’s petitioning a court docket to hunt bail for Khan in the most recent case. He mentioned he’s difficult Khan’s imprisonment and prison trial as “it’s illogical and unconstitutional.”
The latest development was a blow to Khan and his legal team, which expected his release after a court in the capital, Islamabad, suspended the corruption conviction and three-year prison term of the former premier. Tuesday’s ruling by the Islamabad High Court, which also granted bail, was a major legal victory for Khan. He has been held in prison since Aug. 5, when he was arrested after his conviction and sentencing by another court.
Khan has been embroiled in more than 150 instances since his (*2*) in Parliament in April 2022.
One of the key cases against him was registered by the Federal Investigation Agency earlier in August on charges of “exposing an official secret document,” which Khan had waved at a political rally in Islamabad after his removing. In his televised speeches, Khan again and again described the file as evidence of a risk to him from the United States.
The file, dubbed Cipher, has now not been made public by means of the federal government however it sounds as if contained diplomatic correspondence between the Pakistani ambassador to Washington and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad.
Before his arrest, Khan publicly mentioned his removing used to be a conspiracy by means of the United States, his successor Shehbaz Sharif, and the Pakistani army — accusations that all of them deny. Sharif stepped down July 28 after the parliament’s time period ended.
Khan’s persevered detention will give an edge to his political opponents forward of the vote to be held later within the yr. Pakistan’s election oversight frame mentioned that elections must be delayed for a minimum of 3 to 4 months as it wishes more time to redraw constituencies to replicate the not too long ago held census. It is broadly believed that the vote will be behind schedule till February.
However, till then, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar is working the daily affairs.