A Pakistan court handed former prime minister Imran Khan a 10-year jail term on Tuesday for leaking state secrets, his media team said, his second conviction in recent months and just 10 days before the country’s general election.
The case pertains to allegations that Khan had made public 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.”
“We don’t accept this illegal decision,” Khan’s lawyer Naeem
