FORMER PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER IMRAN KHAN GETS 10-YEAR JAIL TERM Guilty of leaking state secrets
A Pakistan court handed former Prime Minister Imran Khan a 10-year jail term for leaking state secrets, the former premier’s media team said.
The case pertains to allegations that Khan had shared the contents of a secret cable sent by the country’s ambassador in Washington to the government in Islamabad.
Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said both Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had been sentenced to 10 years each by a special court.
It said the party would challenge the decision and called it a “sham case.”
Last week, a high court refused to suspend Khan’s disqualification from contesting the elections.