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Imran Khan's political party says it will challenge the 10-year jail sentence a Pakistani court handed the former prime minister after he was found guilty of leaking state secrets.
Khan's party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, said both Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had been sentenced to 10 years each by a special court
The case pertains to allegations Khan made public the contents of a secret cable sent by the country’s ambassador in Washington to the government in Islamabad.
A Pakistan court handed former prime minister Imran Khan a 10-year jail term on Tuesday for leaking state secrets, the former premier's media team said, his second conviction in recent months and just 10 days before the country's general election.