IHC rejects PTI chairman's plea against jail trial.

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday rejected the plea of Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI) Chairman to stop his jail trial in the cipher case.

The IHC bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Raffat Imtiaz, which heard the intra-court appeal along with the obAjections of Registrar Office, observed that it could not grant interim relief to the petitioner as the admissibility of the appeal was yet to be decided. Justice Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb remarked that they could give interim relief as after the removal of objections a new bench might be formed for further proceedings. He said they were removing the objections on the peAtition. The PTI chairman's lawyer Salman...

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