Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan gets 10 year jail term

TIL Desk/World/Lahore/ A Pakistani court sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan to 10 years in jail after finding him guilty of violating the nation’s Official Secrets Act by making a diplomatic cable public when he was in power.

A special court judge Abual Hasnat Muhammad Zulqarnain handed down the order on Tuesday, Imran Khan’s lawyer Shoaib Shaheen said in a text message. His former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was also convicted for 10 years in the same case, he said.

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