Imran Khan and Bushra again challenges verdicts in cipher and Toshakhana cases

PTI founder Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi on Friday again filed appeals in Islamabad High Court challenging the decisions of trial courts in cipher and Toshakhana cases, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Earlier, Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi’s lawyers had taken back appeals from the IHC after the Registrar raised objections.

Now after removing the objections of the registrar, the PTI lawyers have refiled the appeals.

It was pleaded that the judgments of the trial courts in Toshakhana and cipher cases should be suspended.

Convictions

On January 30, Imran Khan and his close aide, former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, had been sentenced to 10 years in jail in cipher case related to the leaking of state secrets.

The special court set up at a prison in Rawalpindi had announced the sentence in the cipher case, which pertained to a diplomatic cable that Imran Khan claimed proved his allegation that his removal from power in 2022 was a US conspiracy.

On January 31, an anti-graft court had jailed Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Khan for 14 years each on charges of illegally selling state gifts. The sentence in the Toshakhana case also included a 10-year disqualification from holding public office.

Bushra Khan, commonly known as Bushra Bibi, had, however, been allowed by authorities to serve her sentence at Imran Khan's Islamabad hilltop mansion at Banigala. Later, Bushra Bibi had moved the court to allow her to undergo her sentence in prison and not at Banigala residence, which the authorities turned into a sub-jail.

Reporter Ehtesham Kiyani