{"id":18775,"date":"2023-08-21T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18775"},"modified":"2023-08-21T17:44:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T12:44:02","slug":"official-secrets-act-special-court-constituted-for-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/official-secrets-act-special-court-constituted-for-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Secrets Act: Special court constituted for hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Special court has been constituted in Islamabad to hear cases under Official Secrets Act, a private news channel reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>ATC Judge Abu Al-Hasnat Muhammad Zulqarnain has been appointed as the judge of the special court, who will hear the cases under the Official Secrets Act from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>It has been confirmed the proceedings under the Official Secrets Act will be in-camera.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that currently, the PTI chairman and former prime minister, former federal ministers Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Asad Umar are facing cases under Official Secrets Act.<\/p>\n<p>The matter took a dramatic turn on Sunday when, President Arif Alvi denied signing Official Secrets (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and Pakistan Army Act (Amendment) Bill, 2023 as he \u201cdisagreed with these laws\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pti-to-move-supreme-court-over-army-secrets-bills-signing-controversy.html\">PTI to move Supreme Court over army, secrets bills signing controversy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a post on social media platform X, Alvi said: \u201cAs God is my witness, I did not sign Official Secrets Amendment Bill, 2023 and Pakistan Army Amendment Bill, 2023 as I disagreed with these laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president said he asked his staff to return the bills unsigned within the stipulated time to make them \u201cuneffective\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Special court has been constituted in Islamabad to hear cases under Official Secrets Act, a private news channel reported on Monday. ATC Judge Abu Al-Hasnat Muhammad Zulqarnain has been appointed as the judge of the special court, who will hear the cases under the Official Secrets Act from across the country. It has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}