ISLAMABAD -UNS: An Islamabad sessions court granted the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s one-day physical remand in a case pertaining to a diplomatic cipher that reportedly went missing from ex-prime minister Imran Khan’s custody and which the PTI chief has for long presented as evidence of a “conspiracy” to remove him from the top office.
Qureshi, who has been booked in the case along with Imran under the Official Secrets Act, was arrested in Islamabad yesterday. Both of them have been accused of sharing the contents of the cipher with unauthorised persons to achieve ‘ulterior motives’.
Qureshi was presented before judicial magistrate Ihtasham Alam Khan today, who observed in the court order that the FIA had sought the PTI leader’s physical remand for 14 days “for the purpose of interrogation regarding the involved accused person and to be confronted with the relevant record, recovery and logical conclusion”.
The order stated that the judge heard arguments from both sides and noted that in cases registered under the secrets law, the jurisdiction of physical remand was with the special court constituted under the said act.
