A special court on Thursday ordered authorities to present Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) on November 28.
The orders issued today in the first hearing of the cipher case that held outside the Adiala prisons after the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) decision to nullify the August 29 notification for a jail trial, media reports said.
Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain has been conducting the trial in jail citing security concerns since Khan was indicted on the charges last month.
The PTI chairman is currently in Adiala jail after he was indicted by the special court on October 23, according to Geo news.
During today’s hearing, the judge asked the court staff to provide him with a copy of the recent IIHC order on jail trial.
The judge also told Qureshi’s lawyer Ali Bukhari that the IHC verdict was a big victory for his client.
The IHC on Tuesday nullified the notification for conducting Imran Khan’s jail trial on charges of leaking state secrets.
