Chief Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb are listening to the appeals towards the conviction of founder PTI and Shah Mahmood Qureshi within the cipher case within the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom.
Through the listening to, founder PTI’s lawyer Latif Khosa mentioned that the bail utility in our 190 million pound reference couldn’t be heard, on which Chief Justice Amir Farooq mentioned that he would schedule it for listening to the day after tomorrow.
He mentioned that my well being was not good, so the causal checklist of the common bench was cancelled. I am sitting right here for this case in any other case I do not really feel higher.
When the FIA prosecutor began the arguments on the appeals, PTI lawyer Salman Safdar mentioned that this case has grow to be too lengthy, the prosecutor ought to full the arguments now. There isn’t a have to delay, Salman Safdar gave very lengthy arguments within the month of Ramadan, I’ve to reply his arguments, I’ve no intention of delaying.
FIA prosecutor Hamid Ali Shah, beginning his arguments, mentioned that cipher telegrams are destroyed after 6 months. Every copy of the cipher is stamped labeled.
The FIA prosecutor then learn out the cipher guideline booklet in entrance of the courtroom.
The prosecutor mentioned that even when the cipher doc is declassified, the identical process will probably be used on it, even whether it is declassified, the doc will probably be disposed of in the identical means. The choice to de-marsh was made on the Nationwide Safety Committee assembly on March 31. After de Marsh’s determination to take motion, the method of the present cipher was full, after which there was nothing left however to ship the cipher again to the Overseas Workplace.
The FIA prosecutor mentioned that each one the cipher copies have been despatched again to the Overseas Workplace aside from the founding PTI, the Overseas Workplace destroyed all of the returned copies.
On this event, the Chief Justice of Islamabad Excessive Courtroom inquired that the courtroom had requested whether or not the protection of the accused could possibly be carried out within the absence of a lawyer. On which there isn’t a want for the presence of a lawyer within the protection assertion of FIA Prosecutor 342.
Chief Justice Islamabad Excessive Courtroom Aamir Farooq inquired that he was convicted on each the costs of deliberately and negligently shedding the cipher doc, can these two fees be concurrent? The FIA prosecutor replied that the 2 fees can be tried concurrently at totally different time steps. The aim of cipher safety is to forestall the cipher from being handed on to an unauthorized individual.
The FIA prosecutor mentioned that aside from a number of circumstances, the cipher can’t be taken out of the room, and distinctive safety preparations need to be made by maintaining the cipher in a container.
Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb inquired whether or not Azam Khan had given receipt on receiving the cipher doc. On which the FIA prosecutor mentioned that not Azam Khan himself however the workers acquired the cipher doc. Azam Khan said that he was given a cipher copy and he gave it to the Prime Minister.
The FIA prosecutor mentioned that the doc was stored by the previous prime minister which he couldn’t maintain, the previous prime minister stored a replica of the cipher and couldn’t shield it in line with legislation.
