Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan sentenced 10-year jail term in cipher case

Imran Khan. (Photo Source: Twitter)

A Pakistan court sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 10 years in jail after he was found guilty of violating the nation’s Official Secrets Act after he made a diplomatic cable public when he was in power.

The order was handed down on Tuesday, January 30, by special court judge Abual Hasnat Muhammad Zulqarnain, and it was informed that former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has also been convicted for 10 years in the same.

This is not a trial but a fixed match: Imran Khan

Both were indicted in the case in October 2023 but had pleaded not guilty. The High Court of Islamabad talked of the government’s notification for a jail trial and scrapped the proceedings. After the scrapping and the bringing up of the case once again, Imran Khan made his thoughts known about the matter and opined that the trial was like a fixed match whose outcome was already pre-decided.

سائفر کیس پر عمران خان کا پیغام:

میرے پاکستانیو! آپ سب نے یقیناً اب تک میرے وکلا سے سن لیا ہوگا کہ کس طرح آئینی تقاضوں اور قانونی ضابطوں کو روندتے ہوئے سائفر سمیت دیگر جھوٹے کیسز کا ٹرائل مکمل کیا جارہا ہے۔

یاد رکھیں کہ سائفر وہ کیس ہے جس کو دو دفعہ اسلام آباد ہایئکورٹ کالعدم…

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) January 30, 2024