ICC World Cup successful captain Imran Khan denied bail by Pakistan court docket

A Pakistani court docket declined bail on Friday to detained former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a case through which he has been indicted on fees of leaking state secrets and techniques, his lawyer mentioned.

The cost is expounded to a categorized cable despatched to Islamabad by Pakistan’s ambassador within the United States final 12 months, which Khan is accused of constructing public.

The former captain of Pakistan denies that and mentioned the contents of the cable appeared within the media from different sources. Lawyer Naeem Panjutha mentioned the Islamabad High Court declined Khan’s utility for bail and for the case to be dismissed.

“We will challenge it,” he mentioned in a publish on the social media platform X, previously referred to as Twitter.

Khan has been on the centre of months of political turmoil in nuclear-armed Pakistan that has shone a highlight on the highly effective navy’s affect over civilian politics.

Khan was pressured from workplace in 2022 after shedding a no-confidence vote in parliament. He mentioned on the time the navy was attempting to sideline him after he fell out with the generals over disagreements about prime safety appointments.

The navy, which has dominated Pakistan straight for important durations since independence in 1947, and wielded affect over civilian governments at different instances, denied engineering Khan’s ouster.

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Khan has mentioned the cable he has been accused of leaking was proof of a U.S. conspiracy to push the navy to oust him within the 2022 parliamentary vote as a result of he had visited Moscow simply earlier than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Both the United States and the Pakistani navy denied that.

Khan has had dozens of authorized circumstances filed in opposition to him, which he has denounced as an effort to maintain him out of politics.

He has been convicted in a single graft case and sentenced to a few years in jail. The sentence was suspended however he stays in jail in reference to different circumstances.

Given his conviction, Khan, whose conservative, nationalistic agenda received him appreciable public assist, cannot participate in a common election anticipated early subsequent 12 months.