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.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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