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Pakistan court indicts Imran Khan for making secret cable public
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- 23 October, 2023
- 07:40
A Pakistani court announced charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan for making the contents of a diplomatic cable public, Report informs, citing Bloomberg.
This is the second indictment against Khan, who faces a maximum of 14 years in prison if he is found guilty, complicating his attempts to contest in elections scheduled for late January.
A special court judge indicted the former premier and his foreign minister at the time, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, for violating the official Secrets Act by leaking a classified cable sent from Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington to Islamabad early last year, Khan’s lawyer, Shoaib Shaheen, said by phone.
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