FORMER Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to ten years in prison for revealing state secrets.
The ex-cricket star, 71, was ousted through a no-confidence vote in April 2022.
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Khan is currently serving a three-year prison sentence over corruption allegations.
An Islamabad court found him guilty of illegally selling state gifts last August – a charge the politician denied.
But he has now been sentenced to a decade behind bars for leaking official secrets.
One of his party deputies has also been handed a ten-year sentence,
According to Zulfiqar Bukhari, spokesman for Khans Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the court announced the verdict at a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
The latest development comes ahead of the February 8 parliamentary elections in Pakistan.
In May last year, footage showed Khan being arrested and bundled into a truck by riot cops.
