Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Asad Umar was granted bail in the cipher case by a special court on Thursday. Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi are also jailed in the same case, which was registered under the Official Secrets Act.

Judge Abu Alhasnaat Zulqurnain announced the decision on Umar’s bail and asked the poitican to furnish bail bonds worth Rs50,000.

Umar, who served as finance minister and planning minister in the PTI government, appeared in person in a special court in Islamabad to get bail.

A prosecutor from the Federal Investigation Agency said told the court on Thursday that Umar’s arrest was not required as there was no incriminating evidence against him in the case yet.

PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi are on remand in the same case until September 26.

Umar had gone ‘missing’ from Islamabad on August 20, hours after Qureshi was arrested in the cipher case. However, no news of his whereabouts had been reported since.

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