ATTOCK: A Pakistan court on Wednesday (Aug 30) ordered that former prime minister Imran Khan be kept in jail over allegations that he leaked classified documents, a day after a judge granted his releas
Since being ousted from power last year, Khan - Pakistan's most popular politician - has been tangled in a slew of legal cases he says are designed to stop him from contestingFollowing a brief hearing inside the jail on Wednesday, Khan's lawyer Salman Safdar told AFP that his detention was extended for two weeks under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act.
The case relates to a cable that Khan had touted as proof that he was ousted as part of a United States conspiracy backed by the establishment, according to a report by the government's Federal Investigation Agency.Safdar said the legislation was generally used to prosecute military cases, and the decision to try Khan in a closed courtroom was"condemnable and concerning".
The vice-chairman of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a former foreign minister, has also been arrested over the case. "This constitutes a manipulation of justice," Muhammad Shoaib Shaheen, another of Khan's lawyers, said on Tuesday.Khan's three-year sentence was handed down early in August by a judge who found him guilty ofThe court on Tuesday said that the sentence was short enough to be set aside, after Khan's team argued there were"serious jurisdictional defects" in the conviction made in"undue haste" without allowing them to present witnesses.
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