The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.
ISLAMABAD: A special court formed to hear cases under the Official Secrets Act on Saturday adjourned the hearing on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's petition seeking bail in the cipher case till September 4.
Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, who has been given additional charge of the special court, conducted the in-camera hearing on the case.
The decision was issued in the case of the missing cipher — a classified state document that the former prime minister had waved during his political gathering ahead of his ouster from office last year.
While the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had overturned a lower court's decision to jail him for three years with Rs100,000 fine — a judgment that kept him from contesting upcoming elections — he remains behind bars due to his judicial remand in the cipher case.
The FIA had officially arrested the former prime minister in the cipher case earlier this month after booking him under Official Secrets Act.
Subsequently, the PTI chief was sent on judicial remand in the cipher case till August 30 at the same time while he was serving his sentence in the Toshakhana case at Attock jail.
In the last hearing, the court extended Khan's judicial remand till September 13 in the cipher case.
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