Former prime minister Imran Khan and his foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi were jailed for flaunting secret documents and not returning them to the government.
Khan is accused of misusing contents of cipher to build narrative that his government was ousted due to a conspiracy hatched by the US, a charge denied by Washington.
Khan was arrested in August for allegedly violating Official Secrets Act by disclosing a secret diplomatic cable sent by Pakistan's embassy in Washington in March last year.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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