{"id":17942,"date":"2024-01-30T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=17942"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T11:09:40","slug":"pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-sentenced-to-10-years-jail-in-state-secrets-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/01\/pakistan-ex-pm-imran-khan-sentenced-to-10-years-jail-in-state-secrets-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years jail in state secrets case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 A Pakistan court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his close aide, former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The special court set up in a prison in Rawalpindi on Tuesday announced the sentence in the so-called cypher case, which pertains to a diplomatic cable that Khan claims proves his allegation that his removal from power in 2022 was a conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>The court established under the Official Secrets Act found Khan guilty of misusing the confidential cable sent by a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Khan has repeatedly denied the charge, saying the document contained evidence that his removal as prime minister was a plot hatched by his political opponents and the powerful military, with help from the US administration. Washington and the Pakistani army reject the accusation.<\/p>\n<p>Khan was Pakistan\u2019s premier from August 2018 to April 2022 when he lost a vote of confidence in the parliament. He has been in jail since August last year, facing trial in multiple cases.<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing against the country\u2019s main opposition leader comes about a week before the general elections, scheduled on February 8.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>SOURCE: AL JAZEERA<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 A Pakistan court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his close aide, former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,976,194,982,7,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-international","category-headline","category-pakistan"],"views":51,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17946,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17942\/revisions\/17946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}