The FIA has issued a challan in a cipher case in which PTI Chairman Qureshi is the primary culprit.

ISLAMABAD – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) charged the PTI chairman and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a prominent party leader and former foreign minister, with violating the Official Secrets Act and filed a challan before the special court hearing the case.

According to sources, the country’s top agency has demanded that the court convene a trial and punish the perpetrators through the challan it has presented.

According to the sources, Asad Umar was not nominated in the case, but Azam Khan, the former principal secretary to the then-prime minister, was appointed as an approver.

Azam Khan’s statement, which was recorded under Sections 161 and 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), was also attached to the challan.

According to the challan, the PTI chairman retained the cipher in his possession and incorrectly utilized the state secret, since he obtained a copy of the document but did not return it.

The new development comes after sources unequivocally indicated that rumours circulating about a pact made between the establishment and the PTI were completely untrue, as the previous ruling party has been attempting to extract concessions following the May 9 disaster.
According to the sources, the strategists, executors, and managers of the May 9 incident will suffer legal consequences, a repeat of what the military leadership under Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir stated shortly after the violent activities.

Earlier this week, the prosecution filed challans in 11 distinct cases, including one involving the Jinnah House attack, before an anti-terrorism court in Lahore, as the state pursues the May 9 mayhem’s architects and executors.

The PTI chairman, former Punjab governor Umar Sarfraz Cheema, ex-health minister Dr Yasmin Rashid, and Khadija Shah are among those named in these charges, which also involve the torching of an Askari Tower and a police station in Shadman.