Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets. A Pakistan court in Rawalpindi on Tuesday sentenced the former Prime Minister Imran Khan and former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi prison for 10 years in cypher case.
The prison sentencing comes a week before general elections on February 8 in which Imran Khan has been banned from contesting.
Khan has repeatdly denied the charge, saying the evidence an his sacking as prime minister was a vicious plan made by his political opponents and military.
“I have never played or watched a fixed match in my life, and I don’t want to sit here and be part of this fixed match. I am in pain, can I go?”, Khan reportedly said to his lawyers after the hearing.
What is cipher case?
Imran Khan was arrested for allegedly breaching the Official Secrets Act by divulging a confidential diplomatic cable known as the cipher from Pakistan’s embassy in Washington, with its contents becoming public in March 2022.
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