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Imran Khan handed 10-year prison sentence just days before elections in Pakistan

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher Former Pakistani Prime Minister and chairman of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Imran Khan, and former Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were sentenced to ten years in prison for allegedly violating the Official Secrets Act, Pakistani TV channel GEO reported on January 30. Imprisoned since August 2023 after being convicted and sentenced to three years on corruption charges, 71-year-old Khan pleaded not guilty to charges of leaking state secrets that dealt a new blow to his chances of contesting Pakistan’s general elections in February. According to Al Jazeera, the charges relate to a confidential […] #Elections #Featured #Government #World
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