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

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