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Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, has been cleared of leaking state secrets, but he will be imprisoned due to a faith in another situation.
In the operate- up to elections in February, the 71- year- older- who was ousted as excellent minister in 2022- was hit with three prison sentences for cases he insists were socially motivated.
Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison in January on charges of making public a diplomatic cable in 2022.
The Islamabad High Court accepted his attractiveness and cleared him on Monday, but he is not anticipated to leave prison for the time being.
The former cricket star and his third wife Bushra are both serving prison sentences after a court ruled that their 2018 marriage had been un-Islamic and illegal as it came too soon after her divorce.
Additionally, the couple was found guilty of corruption for gifts that he gave to the couple while serving as prime minister.
The former cricket star is still a potent force in Pakistani politics even while he is still in jail.
During the February elections, his Pakistan Tehreek- e- Insaf ( PTI ) party, which had been forced to run candidates as independents, emerged as the single largest bloc.
However, they fell short of the majority and their rivals united to form a new government.
In the so- called” cipher case”, the prosecution argued that Khan had leaked a classified cable sent to Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington.
The then-prime minister waving a piece of paper at a rally in March 2022, which he claimed sounded like it was a piece of paper showing a foreign conspiracy against him, on stage.
He did n’t give the name of the nation, but he later had a very negative opinion of the US. Officials from Pakistan and Washington refuted the assertion.
According to the prosecution, Khan’s actions amounted to leaking a classified document and compromising diplomatic relations.
Khan’s foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison.
On Monday, both men were found innocent of the charges.
” Thank God, the sentence is overturned”, PTI spokesman Naeem Panjutha, said in a post on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.