In August 2023, the FIA invoked Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act 1923 and booked PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case.
PML-N leader Afnaullah Khan posted on X that although he believed in non-violence, he was a soldier of Nawaz Sharif and that he taught a befitting lesson to PTI's Sher Afzal Khan Marwat.
Hours after getting bail in the Toshakhana case, a special court recently established to hear cases under the Official Secrets Act directed the Attock Jail authorities to keep Imran Khan in “judicial lockup”.
The US had expressed its displeasure over Khan's visit to Russia soon after Russia's military action against Ukraine, and set up a chain of events that led to his removal.
Imran Khan was detained from his Lahore residence, just after an Islamabad trial court found him guilty of "corrupt practices" in the Toshakhana corruption case and sentenced him to three years in prison.