Ex-PM Imran Khan will be imprisoned for two more weeks despite bail

Khan’s lawyers are seeking his release (AP)
Khan’s lawyers are seeking his release (AP)

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan will remain in a high-security prison for at least another two weeks despite being granted bail the previous day, as an anti-terrorism court extended his detention in a case involving the revealing of a secret document, a defence lawyer said.

The anti-terrorism court announced the decision after a closed-door hearing at the high-security Attock prison in the eastern Punjab province, Khan’s lawyer Intazar Hussain Panjutha said.

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