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Founder PTI, Shah Mahmood handed 10-year jail term - Ghumman and Hasan Ayub's analysis

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00:00 Former Prime Minister Bani PTI and his foreign minister, Shah Maud Qureshi, have been sentenced to 10 years.

00:11 Today, this happened.

00:13 As you can see, this case was going on for a long time.

00:16 This case was heard by the court of Judge Abul Hasnat Muhammad Zulqarnain.

00:22 And this case was trialled in the jail. It is an open trial, but it was a case of security.

00:31 Keeping all this in mind, this case was held there.

00:35 A special court was formed and this case was held under the Official Secret Act.

00:41 We are getting the opinions of different lawyers in this case.

00:52 But the way this case was handled, especially during the last 3-4 days,

00:58 was Bani PTI and Shah Maud Qureshi's lawyer's performance lacklustre or was he not able to reach the court?

01:09 The court had to appoint a defense counsel.

01:13 Obviously, Bani PTI and Shah Maud Qureshi refused to accept.

01:18 We are getting to know that the lawyers were on one side and the defense counsel and the prosecution were on the same side.

01:29 Obviously, the government appointed them.

01:32 This was an allegation and an objection was raised that we will not accept this.

01:38 Anyway, this case has been decided.

01:41 Both of them have been sentenced to 10 years.

01:44 Obviously, Bani PTI was already out of the elections.

01:48 If I am not mistaken, Shah Maud Qureshi was allowed to contest the elections in Sindh.

01:55 I think this is the news that he lost that chance.

02:01 But when this decision was announced, the opinions of various lawyers and experts began to come out on various television screens.

02:12 What is their opinion?

02:14 First of all, what was the reaction of the former Attorney General of Pakistan Muslim League Noon, Ashtar Usab, when he was sentenced?

02:23 The due process has been followed.

02:27 I think that the punishment that has been given is less because this was a very serious matter.

02:34 The Prime Minister did not care at all about the impact of this on the country's peace.

02:41 I think this is a case that should be punished.

02:47 Viewers, obviously, it is a matter of cipher.

02:50 According to the accuser of 342, Bani PTI said that he had disappeared from his office.

02:58 I did an inquiry at that time.

03:02 But I don't know where he is.

03:04 But the way he used the cipher, he was accused of putting the national security of the country at stake for political purposes.

03:13 After that, viewers, obviously, Ali Zafar is also a senator of Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf.

03:18 And the various cases of Pakistan Tariq-e-Insaf are also fighting in various courts for some time.

03:23 Their reaction is obvious.

03:26 What is the other side of the fence saying?

03:29 The trial was not right. It is a mistrial.

03:34 It is completely illegal.

03:36 The conviction and punishment is that the time the appeal is filed, it will be suspended.

03:42 I don't see any legal status in this.

03:45 I will not call it a case. I will not call it a trial.

03:48 I will not call it a test.

03:50 It is a completely false accusation.

03:52 There is no need to believe it.

03:55 Viewers, obviously, Hamid Khan has a different relationship with PTI.

03:59 But you know for some time he had a fight with Bani PTI.

04:03 He has a principled position at every point.

04:06 Especially Hassan Ayub has covered the Supreme Court.

04:09 So he takes a line.

04:11 You will remember that the current Chief Inspector, Qazi Faiz Issa, when he made a reference against him,

04:17 he was standing with Qazi Sahib at that time and said that this is wrong.

04:21 So that is his own opinion. When he gave this punishment, he also gave his opinion.

04:26 All the proceedings have been done illegally.

04:31 The defense counsel, which is actually a part of the prosecution,

04:34 has been selected from the prosecution team and appointed as the defense counsel.

04:41 Its purpose is only to guarantee that the conviction can be made.

04:48 Viewers, after this we saw that the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League Noon

04:53 gave very interesting opinions and statements about this punishment.

04:59 Before going to them, let's first go to our panelists.

05:02 Hassan, you have a lot of experience in court reporting.

05:07 What is your immediate reaction?

05:09 Both of them have been sentenced to 10 years.

05:13 The defense counsel and the PTI are saying that justice should be served.

05:22 But within a day, 25 witnesses were sentenced and the case went on till 1 am.

05:28 Is this unprecedented in Pakistan or is this common in other cases?

05:34 No, the punishment was given at night.

05:36 The punishment will not be given at night, it will be given in the morning.

05:39 The trial has been conducted but I have the Supreme Court's order.

05:43 I think it is from 22nd December 2023.

05:47 If you see paragraph 8 of the order, Justice Mansoor Shah has given a bail.

05:51 He has said that you should expeditiously take the trial to the conclusion.

05:56 This was the direction of the Supreme Court, the trial court.

06:00 The trial court cannot go beyond that.

06:03 The bail has been granted to Bani Chairman Tariq Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

06:10 So in your opinion, this process went on smoothly.

06:13 This is not haste.

06:15 You see, this case was asked to be recorded 2-3 times.

06:21 The cases that were closed, were declared null and void.

06:25 Even from the High Court, on different stages.

06:28 So it has taken a long time.

06:33 It should have been concluded before this.

06:35 It has not been delayed.

06:36 The second thing is that the punishments have been reduced.

06:38 I was watching a private television channel that tweeted about Alima Khan.

06:43 She said that she expected to be punished with death.

06:47 This is a 10 year imprisonment.

06:49 In your opinion, how much punishment should have been given in this case?

06:53 In this case, the punishment should have been 10 years of death.

07:00 Because I had too much death penalty.

Founder PTI, Shah Mahmood handed 10-year jail term - Ghumman and Hasan Ayub's analysis

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