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Sharif, 74, will be eyeing the premiership for a record fourth time in Thursday's election.
Accountability Court Judge Mohammad Bashir conducted the hearing at Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail, where the former premier is incarcerated, in the Toshakhana corruption case.
The special court found Khan guilty of making public the contents of a secret cable sent by Pakistan's ambassador in Washington to the government in Islamabad.
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi had summoned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, who is already behind bars in cipher and graft cases.
The actor, in a long Instagram post, also went on to explain why he decided to do the film, though its premise felt a bit far-fetched.
The former prime minister has been in jail since early August after being convicted on corruption charges.
The arrest, ruled "invalid and unlawful" by the Supreme Court a day earlier, fuelled instability in the nation of 220 million at a time of economic crisis, with record inflation, anaemic growth and delayed IMF funding.
Khan was arrested Tuesday in the Al-Qadir Trust case by authorities following the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) order to probe him in the alleged corruption when he was present in the premises of the IHC
Khan was arrested on Tuesday from the Islamabad HC and an accountability court handed him over to the National Accountability Bureau for 8 days in connection with the Al-Qadir Trust case.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who served as foreign minister in Imran Khan's cabinet during his four year premiership, was arrested overnight, a statement on his Twitter profile said.
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