Imran’s prosecution in Toshakhana, cipher cases ‘without legal basis, politically motivated’: UN report

The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has said that PTI founder Imran Khan’s detention and prosecution in the first Toshakhana case — separate from a case involving his wife and undervalued jewellery — and cipher cases were “without legal basis” and were politically motivated to exclude him from competing in the political arena.

The first Toshakhana case alleges that Imran had “deliberately concealed” details of the gifts he retained from the Toshaskhana — a repository...