Pakistan’s top election body tribunal adjourns contempt case hearing against Imran Khan, 2 others

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Pakistans top election body on Monday adjourned till December 6 the hearing of a contempt case against former Prime Minister Imran Khan and others after they failed to appear before it...

The accused, apart from Khan, include former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and federal ministers Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry..

All of them were to be indicted during the hearing on Monday.. Khan, the chairman of PTI, was arrested in August this year after a case was filed against the 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician for disclosing a secret diplomatic cable (cipher) sent by the countrys embassy in Washington in March last year...

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