A special court constituted under the Official Secrets Act on Wednesday extended the judicial remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Party Vice-Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi till September 26.
Khan has been in jail since his conviction on August 5 in the Tosha Khana case for failing to properly declare gifts received while in office.
While the Islamabad High Court overturned a lower court’s decision to send him to jail for three years with a fine of Rs 100,000 – a decision that barred him from contesting the next election, he was arrested in the cipher case. are behind bars.
The FIA had formally arrested the former prime minister in the cipher case last month after booking him under the Official Secrets Act.