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Ex-PM Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi get 10-year prison

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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and 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 the Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the case related to leaking state documents, popularly called 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. According to Zulfiqar Bukhari, spokesman for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the court announced the verdict at a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

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