ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition, praying the court to register a treason case against former prime minister Imran Khan and various ministers, as inadmissible.
IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah delivered a reserved verdict earlier today wherein it also fined the petitioner Maulvi Iqbal Haider Rs100,000.
Request to put the names of ex-premier and other former ministers on the no-fly list was also rejected by the court along with the plea to probe the diplomatic dispatch which alleges ‘foreign conspiracy to oust Imran Khan’s government’.
Earlier it was reported that despite serious concern from the legal wing, former prime minister Imran Khan sent the Foreign Office cypher to Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, claiming that a foreign country sent a threatening message through Pakistan’s envoy.
Sources told that there is a possibility that the CJP may not read the diplomatic cypher.
It was being reported that a US official had warned that there could have been implications if Imran had survived the opposition’s no-confidence motion in the National Assembly.
An emergency petition was also filed in the IHC on Saturday, seeking to restrain then prime minister Imran Khan from de-notifying Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
