Pakistan’s previous Primary Minister Imran Khan, gestures as he speaks to the members of the media at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan May 18, 2023.
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has been sentenced to ten a long time in jail on fees of leaking condition techniques, his social gathering Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) verified in a put up on social media web page X on Tuesday.
Khan and his supporters have decried the expenses as politically motivated.
“There can be no extra absurd circumstance than the Cipher. What can be more ridiculous than that Pakistan has imprisoned its Key Minister and Foreign Minister for exposing the overseas conspiracy!!,” PTI, which is Pakistan’s biggest political occasion, wrote on X.
Cipher refers to the identify of the circumstance in which both equally Khan and former Overseas Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been sentenced to a 10 years at the rear of bars, and centers on top secret diplomatic communications among Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S. and Islamabad that were being allegedly leaked whilst Khan was key minister.
The former nationwide cricket captain grew to become Pakistan’s key minister in 2018. Now 71-many years-previous, Khan was eradicated from business by political opponents in 2022, and afterwards arrested in Could of 2023 and has been serving a three-12 months jail term on a corruption conviction.
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