Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, gestures as he speaks to the members of the media at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan Might 18, 2023.
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail on fees of leaking state secrets and techniques, his social gathering Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) confirmed in a publish on social media web site X on Tuesday.
Khan and his supporters have decried the costs as politically motivated.
“There may be no extra ridiculous case than the Cipher. What may be extra ridiculous than that Pakistan has imprisoned its Prime Minister and International Minister for exposing the international conspiracy!!,” PTI, which is Pakistan’s largest political social gathering, wrote on X.
Cipher refers back to the identify of the case during which each Khan and former International Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been sentenced to a decade behind bars, and facilities on secret diplomatic communications between Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S. and Islamabad that have been allegedly leaked whereas Khan was prime minister.
The previous nationwide cricket captain grew to become Pakistan’s prime minister in 2018. Now 71-years-old, Khan was faraway from workplace by political opponents in 2022, and later arrested in Might of 2023 and has been serving a three-year jail time period on a corruption conviction.
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