NEW DELHI, Oct 24: A Pakistani court on Monday indicted Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets after his 2022 ouster from office in another dramatic move against the former prime minister who could now face a possible death sentence and will likely be unable to run in parliamentary elections in January.
Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a close aide and the deputy leader of Khan's opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, will go on trial this week.
The charge of revealing state secrets carries a sentence ranging from life in prison to the death penalty, according to one of Khan's defense lawyers, however, said he was confident Khan and Qureshi would be acquitted as they had done nothing wrong.
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