Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi sentenced to 10 years in jail in cipher case

January 30, 2024 - PatialaPolitics

Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi sentenced to 10 years in jail in cipher case

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been given 10-year prison sentences by a Pakistan court in the controversial Cipher case

 

Pakistan’s state media and a spokesman for PTI confirmed the jail term meted out to Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the case related to leaking state documents, popularly called the cipher case

 

“Former prime minister 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 spokesman for the party told AFP.