Janpukar News/ Sudhanshu Rokka
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in jail in the Cipher case. Shah Mahmood Qureshi, former foreign minister of Pakistan, has also been handed jail term in the case.
Former PM 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 PTI spokesman told AFP.
The party said it would challenge the decision and called it a ‘sham’ case.
The verdict was delivered orally by Special Court Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain, who has been presiding over the case’s hearings at the jail since its inception last year.
This case revolves around a diplomatic document, which, according to the Federal Investigation Agency’s charge sheet, was not returned by Imran Khan.
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