Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan, gestures as he speaks to the members of the media at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, May 18, 2023. ISLAMABAD: A high court in Pakistan overturned jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's conviction on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer and his party said on Monday , but Khan will remain in prison for now due to a conviction in another case.
"Thank God, the sentence is overturned," a spokesman for legal affairs from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, Naeem Panjutha, said in a post on the X social media platform. But despite Monday's acquittal, Khan, a former cricket star, will remain in prison serving a seven-year sentence over another case relating to his marriage to his third wife, Bushra Khan, which contravened Islamic traditions.
"It's a huge political and legal victory," journalist and political analyst Mazhar Abbas told Reuters, but cautioned that it would be premature to say that Khan would be released anytime soon.
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