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Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years jail: party

Published: 30 Jan 2024 - 10:43 am | Last Updated: 30 Jan 2024 - 10:44 am
A vendor sits at his tuck shop displaying posters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan, in Hyderabad on January 29, 2024. (Photo by Akram SHAHID / AFP)

A vendor sits at his tuck shop displaying posters of Pakistan's former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan, in Hyderabad on January 29, 2024. (Photo by Akram SHAHID / AFP)

AFP

Islamabad: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in jail, state media and a spokesman for his party said, in a controversial case related to a leaked document.
"Former prime minister Imran Khan and PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) vice-president Qureshi have been sentenced to 10 years each inside prison in the cypher case," a spokesman for the party told AFP.