# Islamabad High Court acquits Khan on the cipher Official Secrets case

Date: 2024

## The fact

In 2024 the Islamabad High Court acquitted [Imran Khan](/people/imran-khan) on the cipher/Official Secrets case that had earlier produced a conviction over his public use of a diplomatic cable.

## Context

A trial court had convicted. IHC reversed. Official-secrets law still exists. He did not write the Official Secrets Act. An acquittal is a completed judicial instrument in his favour on this file only.

Al-Qadir 2025 is a neighbouring later conviction. The 2022 dissolution used the cable as political weather.

A former prime minister in prison does not write [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) statutes, IMF board decisions, or GHQ orders. An appeal is not an acquittal. A medical note is not a conviction. A party video is not a completed steal of 2024. A jail hospital corridor is not a cabinet.

## Evidence and sources

Islamabad High Court carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice and [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed acquittal on a secrets file shows that not every charge stuck, without erasing neighbouring convictions.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 2024 IHC acquittal on the cipher/Official Secrets file, independently reported.

Not established: that Al-Qadir or Toshakhana are thereby void, or a unique later press-freedom coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The trial court had convicted. He is the acquitted subject on this file only.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Islamabad High Court acquits Khan on the cipher Official Secrets case, not a later speech about Islamabad High Court acquits Khan on the cipher Official Secrets case.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Islamabad High Court acquits Khan on the cipher Official Secrets case on 2024-06-03 is not a licence to treat every later Islamabad High Court communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Islamabad High Court acquits Khan on the cipher Official Secrets case into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to IHC reversed. The trial court had convicted. He is the acquitted subject on this file only. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Imran Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-court-acquits-imran-khan-cipher-case-2024-06-03/
- https://www.islamabadhighcourt.gov.pk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-cipher-acquittal-2024