Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi‘s conviction in the encryption circumstance was challenged by the Pakistani authorities on Thursday in the Supreme Court. The event relates to the claim that Khan claimed to have displayed a piece of paper at a public protest in Islamabad as evidence of a foreign power’s plan to attack his government. He also mentions US diplomat Donald Lu, who has been at the center of the encryption controversy.
Just two weeks prior to the PTI government’s resignation in April 2022, he had cast the cipher papers in Parliament with a vote of no confidence.
In the encryption event, Khan and Qureshi were given a 10-year prison sentence in January by a special prosecutor established under the Official Secrets Act.
However, they filed a lawsuit against the sentence, and a bench of the Islamabad High Court ( IHC), which included Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, accepted their appeals and acquired them.
The Supreme Court would choose the two’s death in the end, which was challenged by the federal government in the case.
The complaint claimed that the IHC attempt was “perverse, random, and contrary to the materials available on the history” and was therefore liable to be overturned.
The government claimed in its argument that the impugned judgment/short purchase does not account for any ground for the respondent’s conviction, also that it has not been demonstrated that the prosecution has failed to establish its case beyond the pale of possibility.
The petition read,” That with the utmost respect it submitted that the IHC has never appreciated the information available on the report as well as the admission of the accused, as for the offended judgment is not responsible in the eyes of law,” the plea read.
A deadline for hearings has not been determined by the apex court so far.
