According to national media reports, the Islamabad High Court heard the case against Imran Khan and Qureshi.
10-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE OVERTURNED
The court found Khan and Qureshi not guilty and overturned their 10-year prison sentences.
Pakistan Justice Movement Party (PTI) leader Gohar Ali Khan said in a statement that the baseless charges against Imran Khan were finalized today and the former Prime Minister has been in prison for 10 months due to the case.
WHEN WILL HE BE RELEASED?
Gohar Ali Khan claimed that Imran Khan will be released from prison soon.
Imran Khan, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for having an illegal marriage with his wife Bushra Bibi, will remain in prison.
Imran Khan has been in prison since August 5, 2023 due to the cases against him.
ALLEGATIONS
The Intercept, a US news website, claimed to have accessed a document of a secret meeting allegedly held on March 7, 2022 between former Pakistani Ambassador to the US Asad Majid Khan and two US State Department officials.
According to the report, which was based on the document allegedly belonging to the Pakistani government and containing the content of the meeting, the US side conveyed to former Ambassador Majid Khan its discomfort with former Pakistani Prime Minister Khan's neutral stance in the Russia-Ukraine War.
Former Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu, who was present at the meeting, promised warmer relations between Washington and Islamabad if the no-confidence vote against Khan is passed, saying, "I think if the no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister is successful, all will be forgiven in Washington because the visit to Russia is seen as the Prime Minister's decision. To be honest, I think the Prime Minister's isolation from the US and Europe will be strong (if he remains in office)."
One day after the meeting on March 7, 2022, opposition parties in Pakistan submitted a no-confidence motion against former Prime Minister Imran Khan to the Secretariat of the Speaker of the National Assembly.
A month after the meeting, on April 10, 2022, Imran Khan's government collapsed after receiving 174 "no" votes in a confidence vote in the Pakistani Parliament.
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