ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The pre-trial detention of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, accused of disclosing state secrets, was extended by two weeks on Wednesday, his lawyer said.
The former cricket star, now 70, has been at the center of a political crisis since losing a vote of confidence in parliament in April 2022. His conviction in another corruption case last month made it has also made him ineligible.
At the end of August, a court suspended Imran Khan’s prison sentence for corruption, just weeks after his incarceration, but a prior pre-trial detention order in the state secrets case prevented his release .
The latest extension of the remand order will keep Khan in jail until September 26, lawyer Naeem Panjutha said in a post on messaging platform X.
(Asif Shahzad; French version Nicolas Delame, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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