A Pakistan court handed Imran Khan a 10-year jail term on Tuesday for leaking state secrets, his party said, the harshest sentence against the former prime minister and cricketer in multiple cases and only days before a national election.
The special court found Khan guilty of making public the contents of a secret cable sent by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington to the government in Islamabad, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said. Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was also sentenced to 10 years in the same case.
The jail term is the second conviction for Khan in recent months, and ensures the popular politician will remain in jail, and out of the public spotlight, ahead of next week's parliamentary vote which will also lead to the nomination of a new prime minister.
The court was due to issue its written verdict later.
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