The Islamabad High Court has reserved its decision over former Pakistan PM Imran Khan's jail case

 The Islamabad High Court has reserved its decision over former Pakistan PM Imran Khan's jail case

The cricketer-turned-politician disputed the indictment, but the Islamabad High Court (IHC) upheld it.

Regarding the intra-court appeal filed by former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan against his prison trial in the Cipher case, a two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court postponed its decision on Tuesday.

The head of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had already had his appeal against his trial in Rawalpindi's Adiala prison denied by a single-judge panel of the same court. Since his transfer from the district prison in Attock on September 26, the 71-year-old former prime minister has been detained in Adiala jail. After hearing the intra-court appeal, Justices Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb as well as Saman Rafat Imtiaz of the IHC panel reserved their decision. It is anticipated that the panel will declare its verdict around 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

In the Sifar case, it is alleged that when processing messages provided by Pakistan's embassy in Washington in March of last year, Khan and his Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi broke the rules protecting national secrets. The official trial for the two, who were found guilty on October 23, has started with the recording of witness testimonies.

The cricketer-turned-politician disputed the indictment, but the Islamabad High Court (IHC) upheld it. But the trial had been put on hold while the IHC decided how to handle the intra-court appeal.