Pakistan former PM Imran Khan booked under Official Secrets Act in cipher case

In yet another blow to Imran Khan, the jailed former Prime Minister of Pakistan has been booked under the Official Secrets Act for making the content of a confidential diplomatic cable from the country's embassy in the US, public. Mr Khan currently serving a three-year jail term after he was sentenced by a court in a corruption case earlier this



month.

Quoting unnamed sources, a report in Geo News claimed that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman has been booked under Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act 1923 in the cipher case on the basis of a first information report registered by the Federal Investigation Agency against him.