His court Pakistan today sentenced the former prime minister to ten years in prison Imran Khan for leaking state secrets, the former prime minister’s communications team announced — his second conviction in recent months that comes just ten days before the country’s election.

The case concerns the complaints that the Han released the contents of a classified cable sent by the country’s ambassador in Washington to the Islamabad government.

Khan’s party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), announced that, in addition to Khan, former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was sentenced to ten years in prison by a special court.

The party even added that it would appeal the decision, which it described asrigged“. “We do not accept this illegal decision,” Khan’s lawyer, Naim Panjuta, wrote on the X platform.

This is the second conviction for the former cricket star in recent months. He has already been sentenced to three years in prison for a corruption case.

Her execution was stayed as he challenged the court’s decision, but the Election Commission of Pakistan barred him from contesting for election for five years.

Although excluded from the upcoming elections, Khan’s legal team hoped to be released from the penitentiary where he has been held since August last year.

This latest conviction makes his participation in the elections unlikely even if he appeals the case to a higher court.

From 2022 Removed from power after a failed vote of confidence in parliament, Khan faces dozens of cases, including charges of incitement to murder, leaking state secrets and organizing violent protests.

He says the cable is evidence of a conspiracy by the Pakistani military and the US government to topple his government in 2022 after he visited Moscow shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Washington and the Pakistani military deny the accusations.

THE former prime minister has said in the past that the content of the cable appeared in the media from other sources.