F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: A special court on Wednesday extended the judicial remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman for 14 days in the cipher case.
The PTI chief’s 14-day judicial remand expired on Tuesday.
Judge Abul Hasnaat Zulqarnain heard the case in Attock jail as the PTI chief was not taken out of the prison in view of security concerns and the Ministry of Law issued a formal notification declaring the jail as court.
Nine lawyers of legal team of PTI chief were allowed to go to Attock Jail while the FIA team investigating the cipher case was present in the jail.
Earlier, talking to media outside the jail before court proceedings, Advocate Salman Safdar said all applications were pending, the most important of them was for bail.
He said the prosecution was not cooperating with the court on the bail application. “There is no justification to keep the PTI chairman in Attock Jail.”
MAY 9 CASE
Meanwhile, the JIT investigating the May 9 carnage has found the PTI chairman guilty in 10 cases citing more than 400 evidence.
The chairman has been “found guilty” on the statements and identification of the arrested suspects. The main case, number 96/23, against the former prime minister consists of more than 2,000 pages and more than 400 evidence from social media.
The JIT claimed that statements of 80 suspects proved the conspiracy behind attack on Jinnah House .
In the statements of 80 suspects directly involved in the Jinnah House attack, the element of conspiracy was clear, the evidence of direct conspiracy on the events of May 9 was also found during the investigation.
According to JIT officials, PTI chairman’s statements were also found to be inconsistent with the situation. He was found guilty in nine other cases also in the light of evidence. Fourteen cases would be filed in the court soon.
The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday had reserved its verdict on a petition filed by the PTI chairman against the hearing of the cipher case in Attock jail where he has been imprisoned since being sentenced in the Toshakhana case. Sher Afzal Marwat – the counsel for petitioner – argued under which law and authority the law ministry had shifted the court to the District Jail Attock and that how a case pertaining to Islamabad could be transferred to Punjab.
