Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan sentenced to ten years in jail for leaking state secrets

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.

AP

Imran Khan has been sentenced to ten years in prison for leaking state secrets[/caption]

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.