“The allegations against Imran Khan will be decided by the courts of Pakistan under their own laws,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in response to a question about the cipher case during a press briefing.
His remarks were in response to the recent ruling by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to acquit Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a case that has attracted a lot of attention from across the world.
Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb’s court agreed to hear the appeals against their convictions in the cipher case, vacating the ten-year prison terms that a special court had imposed in accordance with the Official Secrets Act in it.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that Khan, when serving as prime minister, failed to return a diplomatic document, which was at the center of the cipher issue.
Khan has maintained that the United States was threatening to topple his government in the paper.
Due to other unresolved legal issues, Khan and Qureshi are still being held in detention even after their acquittal.
Miller covered a number of topics in the same briefing, including the current state of affairs in Gaza.
He emphasized internal disputes in Israel on the cease-fire deal and mentioned that the Israeli government made the offer.
