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  Islamabad: Islamabad Hight court has suspended the conviction and three-year prison sentence of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the state gifts depository case. 

  The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday once again adjourned the hearing of a case pertaining to the suspension of a three-year jail term of former premier Imran Khan — currently incarcerated in Attock Jail — in the Toshakhana case. 

  PTI Chairman Imran Khan, shortly after an Islamabad trial court declared him guilty of “corrupt practices” in the Toshakhana case, was arrested by Punjab police on Saturday afternoon from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore. 

  The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday set aside a trial court verdict that had declared the Tosh­akhana reference filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against the PTI chairman as maintainable for criminal proceedings.  IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq ordered the trial court to decide the matter again after re-hearing the case. He also rejected the PTI chief’s appeal to transfer the case to another court and issued a notice for next week on a petition to restore Imran Khan’s right of defence in the Toshakhana trial. “The matter is remanded to the trial court for decision afresh,” the IHC said in a detailed order, noting that the IHC was informed that the case was fixed for final arguments in the trial court today.  “The petitioner shall ensure addressing of arguments positively on the issue when the matter is fixed by the court for final arguments. The trial court shall address the issues raised in the referred petitions while deciding the matter,” the order reads.  I

ISLAMABAD: The government on Sunday made public the details of foreign gifts retained by public office holders — presidents, prime ministers, federal cabinet members, politicians, bureaucrats, retired generals, judges and journalists from 2002 to 2022.

  The government on Thursday recorded its apprehensions before the Lahore High Court (LHC) regarding Toshakhana gifts, saying the public disclosure of such articles could cause “unnecessary media hype, which might be potentially damaging to the interests of Pakistan in the conduct of international relations”.  The concern was raised by the government in its report submitted before the single-judge bench during the hearing of a petition seeking to make records of Toshakhana gifts public.  The petition was filed by a private citizen Munir Ahmad through advocate Azhar Siddique in December 2022.  Established in 1974, the Tosha­khana is a department under the administrative control of the Cabinet Division and stores precious gifts given to rulers, parliamentarians, bureaucrats, and officials by heads of other governments and states and foreign dignitaries.  According to Toshakhana rules, gifts/presents and other such materials received by persons to whom these rules apply shall be reported