Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan gets 10-year jail sentence

Cyphir case, for which Khan is given a 10-year jail term, is related to charges that the former Pakistani prime minister had leaked the contents of a secret cable sent by the country’s ambassador in Washington to the government in Islamabad.

The Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician has refuted the accusation multiple times, claiming the “document contained evidence that his removal as prime minister was a plot hatched by his political opponents and the powerful military, with help from the U.S. administration. Washington and Islamabad reject the accusation,” Al-Jazeera reported.

Former foreign minister and Khan’s top aide Shah Mehmood Qureshi was also sentenced to 10 years in the same case.

The critical decision comes just nine days before Pakistan’s general elections slated to happen on Feb. 8.

Source: Newsroom