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00:00 "Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is already in prison serving a three-year
00:05 jail term on corruption charges.
00:08 A special court now has issued a ruling in the jail in Ralpindi where he is being held,
00:13 sentencing him to 10 years on charges of leaking state secrets in what is known as the 'Cypher
00:19 case'.
00:20 The court found that Khan and his former foreign minister were guilty of making public the
00:24 contents of a secret cable sent to Washington when Khan was Prime Minister.
00:47 Khan says the cable was proof of a conspiracy by the Pakistani military and the US government
00:52 to topple his government in 2022, right after he visited Moscow before Russia's invasion
01:00 of Ukraine.
01:02 Washington and Pakistan's military deny that.
01:06 Khan's party, the PTI, which won the 2018 vote, has been sidelined in general elections
01:11 being held in the coming days on the 8th of February.
01:15 His candidates are contesting as independents.
01:17 His supporters condemn the ruling.
01:22 "This entire thing with Imran Khan is very wrong.
01:25 He's a really good leader.
01:26 People trust him to run the system in Pakistan because he carried this out in a very good
01:30 way."
01:32 Khan is fighting dozens of cases against him.
01:35 He has called on people to come out and vote to show their support for him.
01:38 Thank you, Bruce Lee Press Association.