{"id":246017,"date":"2024-01-30T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T08:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=246017"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T08:31:42","slug":"10-years-in-jail-for-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/10-years-in-jail-for-imran-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years in jail for Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PTI chief and former Prime Minister of Pakistan has been sentenced to 10 years in Jail. He was a popular cricketer and controversial PM .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of his party deputies to 10 years in prison each, after finding them guilty of revealing official secrets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Zulfiqar Bukhari, spokesman for Khan\u2019s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the court announced the verdict at a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Khan, who was ousted through a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April 2022, is currently serving a three-year prison sentence in a graft case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Khan will not be on the ballot for the February election, he remains a potent political force because of his grassroots following and anti-establishment rhetoric. He says the legal cases against him were a plot to sideline him ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pakistan has seen violent demonstrations since after Khan\u2019s May 2023 arrest. Authorities have cracked down on his supporters and party since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI chief and former Prime Minister of Pakistan has been sentenced to 10 years in Jail. He was a popular cricketer and controversial PM . A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of his party deputies to 10 years in prison each, after finding them guilty of revealing official secrets. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[3301,113413],"class_list":["post-246017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-imran-khan","tag-imran-khan-jail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Imran-Khan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246019,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246017\/revisions\/246019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}