US EditionEx-Pakistan PM Imran Khan sentenced to 14 years in jail in corruption case
- A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years in prison for corruption, while his wife, Bushra Bibi, received a seven-year sentence.
- The couple was found guilty of accepting land gifts from a businessman in exchange for laundered money during Khan's time in power.
- Lawmakers from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party protested outside Parliament, claiming the verdict was unjust.
- The court also imposed fines on Khan and Bibi and ordered the forfeiture of the Al-Qadir Trust's property to the federal government.
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Islamabad. A court in Pakistan yesterday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years in prison after being found guilty in a property corruption case.
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Imran Khan jailed for 14 years in corruption case
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a corruption case, in the latest of a series of charges laid against him. It is the longest valid jail sentence the cricket star-turned-politician, who has been detained since August 2023, has received. He has faced charges in over 100 cases, ranging from leaking state secrets to selling state gifts - all of which he has decried as politically motivated. The…
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The unfortunate saga of Pakistani state persecution against former Prime Minister Imran Khan continues, as a Pakistani court on Friday sentenced Khan and this wife to 14 and seven years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption. He had already been held in jail for a couple years, despite many months of huge protests […]
Pakistan former PM Imran Khan and wife sentenced in Al-Qadir corruption case
The Islamabad Bench of Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau Court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to imprisonment for 14 and seven years, respectively, in a £190 million corruption case. The court earlier delayed the verdict amidst ongoing negotiations between Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaaf (PTI) party and the ruling coalition government of Pakistan. Khan was sentenced to 14 years in prison …
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