Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court has said that on what basis did the judge of the trial court write in his decision that Pakistan-US relations have ended?
Islamabad High Court heard appeals against the conviction in the cipher case. Barrister Salman Safdar, the lawyer of founder PTI, said that founder PTI and Shah Mahmood Qureshi were asked 2, 2 questions, the sentence was pronounced immediately after asking the question, the verdict was pronounced before the statement of the accused. Gaya, what kind of insolence happened to us that we were kicked out of the court so that we don’t come to the court anymore.
Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb inquired that the trial court judge gave the finding in his decision that Pakistan-US relations have ended, on what basis did the trial judge write that relations have ended?
Salman Safdar replied that the trial judge wrote on the basis of the statement of Asad Majeed, the Pakistani ambassador to America.
Justice Mian Gul Hasan Aurangzeb remarked that Asad Majeed also did not say this.
Salman Safdar said that the law made for the enemy of the state was used against the political enemy, which is the enemy state, what benefit was given to the enemy state?
The Chief Justice said that I have already said that this law has now become unnecessary. Which assembly abolished this law in 75 years?
Salman Safdar argued that the law was made a mockery of, frivolous prosecution was carried out, if the targeting of political revenge ends, there will be a chance to improve things, Cipher was not brought forward because he would have favored the accused, Cipher The text did not come out in the form of plain text, only one copy was not returned, a case was made, nine copies of the cipher were not returned, then why the case only against the founder PTI? He need not say the cipher, he remained in the Foreign Office, copies were sent.
The court asked Barrister Salman Safdar that you have tried to de-molish the 10-year sentence.
Barrister Salman Safdar then said that only the PTI founder had not returned it, others also had copies.
Chief Justice Amir Farooq told Salman Safdar that if you have removed the elephant, remove the tail too, you will hear more tomorrow.
The court adjourned the hearing of the case till tomorrow.
