Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s jail extended for two weeks - GulfToday

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s jail extended for two weeks

  • 13 Sep 2023
Imran-Khan750

Imran Khan

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan's jail detention related to charges of leaking state secrets was extended for another two weeks, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

The jail custody has been extended until Sept. 26, his lawyer Naeem Panjutha said in a post on X messaging platform, formerly Twitter.

Khan has been in prison since early August, having earlier been convicted on corruption charges and sentenced to three years.

A high court last month suspended his sentence, but a prior order for his remand in custody in the state secrets case prevented his release.

Reuters

 

 

 

Related articles

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s graft conviction suspended

Khan has been in prison since he was sentenced to three years on Aug. 5 on charges of unlawfully selling state gifts during his tenure as prime minister from 2018 to 2022.

29 Aug 2023

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan indicted in official secrets case

A guilty verdict under the Official Secrets Act could bring up to 14 years in prison or even a death sentence, lawyers say. Khan's party said Monday's hearing took place on the premises of Adyala Jail, near Islamabad, where Khan is being held, with no media or public access.

23 Oct 2023

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan accuses government of ‘unacceptable’ censorship

On Tuesday night, however, YouTube was down across much of the country as Khan addressed a rally in Peshawar, with London-based internet outage monitor Netblocks confirming the disruption.

07 Sep 2022

Pakistan PM Imran Khan comes to the rescue of homeless woman

The video of the woman was posted by a netizen showing her requesting the prime minister to provide her a house.

19 Mar 2019

Most Popular Stories

Other Articles

Computer glitch leads airline staff to mistake 101-year-old woman for a baby

The system cannot register that the woman, Patricia, was born in 1922, rather than 2022. The date of her birth was too far back for the system to process, so it defaulted to 100 years later.

35 minutes ago

UAE issues weather alert for the week with heavy rain, hailstorm on May 2

The center indicated that from Sunday to Wednesday, local rainy cumulus clouds will form with the possibility of some hail falling on the eastern regions, extending to some interior and western regions.

2 hours ago

UAE sends hundreds of tonnes of food to Gaza

The UAE has partnered with the American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) to scale the humanitarian assistance to the brotherly people of Gaza and address the humanitarian crisis.

2 hours ago

Musk leaves Beijing after Tesla wins key China security clearance

Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday for his second trip in less than a year to China, meeting with top officials including Premier Li Qiang, as he worked to boost his company's fortunes in the world's biggest electric car market.

2 hours ago